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Re: Show HN: HackPad is the best wiki ever

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Post by orph »

JoeCortopassi wrote: post #48
king_magic wrote: post #6

I really don't like that I have to sign in with Google or Facebook to try it in read/write mode. Read-only mode is not good enough for me to tell if it's something I want to use, and having to use Google or Facebook just to try it is a dealbreaker for me, sorry. Which is a shame, because it looks neat. Fix that, then I'd be interested in giving it a try. Edit: I missed the ability to sign in without Google/Facebook.…

Click "read only", then paste this into your browser bar and hit enter... javascript:(function(){modals = {'showModal' : function(){}};})(); ...to be able to try it out without signing into Google or Facebook. Doesn't do anything fancy, just overrides the function responsible for the "Sign up" pop up, and replaces it with an empty function. Hope this doesn't piss anyone off, just trying to be helpful. Seems like a ni…

This just hides the sign in modal dialog. Your changes are not saved until you sign in.

It's totally awesome that you're poking around in the code :)

Re: Show HN: HackPad is the best wiki ever

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Post by berntb »

modoc wrote: post #46
X-Istence wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

JIRA is the bug tracking software. Atlassian is the company. JIRA is absolutely terrible as well. I can't express in words how much I hate and dislike JIRA, it's horribly slow and bloated user interface and how complicated it makes certain tasks... using it as an Agile tool makes it even worse especially with Greenhopper the add-on.

Lots of people here seem to dislike Confluence and Jira. What do you folks prefer? Having used Bugzilla, Trac, Mantis, MediaWiki, and several other tools I 100% prefer Jira and Confluence...

I agree... Multi resistant TB is to be preferred, compared to the black plague. :-(

(Mantis might have less capabilities than Jira, but I almost enjoyed working with it. That might have depended on the project. [Edit: On consideration, Mantis was simpler and didn't make me scream from pure hatred.])

Re: Show HN: HackPad is the best wiki ever

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Post by dools »

modoc wrote: post #46
X-Istence wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

JIRA is the bug tracking software. Atlassian is the company. JIRA is absolutely terrible as well. I can't express in words how much I hate and dislike JIRA, it's horribly slow and bloated user interface and how complicated it makes certain tasks... using it as an Agile tool makes it even worse especially with Greenhopper the add-on.

Lots of people here seem to dislike Confluence and Jira. What do you folks prefer? Having used Bugzilla, Trac, Mantis, MediaWiki, and several other tools I 100% prefer Jira and Confluence...

After a long journey we settled on Basecamp. It is kind of shitty until you nail down your own workflow and the API allows you a lot of scope to do that through automation.

Re: Show HN: HackPad is the best wiki ever

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Post by JoeCortopassi »

orph wrote: post #51
JoeCortopassi wrote: post #48

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Click "read only", then paste this into your browser bar and hit enter... javascript:(function(){modals = {'showModal' : function(){}};})(); ...to be able to try it out without signing into Google or Facebook. Doesn't do anything fancy, just overrides the function responsible for the "Sign up" pop up, and replaces it with an empty function. Hope this doesn't piss anyone off, just trying to be helpful. Seems like a ni…

This just hides the sign in modal dialog. Your changes are not saved until you sign in. It's totally awesome that you're poking around in the code :)

Haha, glad you're ok with that. Just wanted to play with the editor to get my feet wet, figured others might want to do the same.

Re: Show HN: HackPad is the best wiki ever

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Post by cookiecaper »

X-Istence wrote: post #31
drivebyacct2 wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Oh god. I helped support an overly customized Confluence wiki that was to be THE wiki for the entire company one summer. I quickly grew to hate the software quite strongly. Took me a while to be objective about JIRA's other products when I used them later.

JIRA is the bug tracking software. Atlassian is the company. JIRA is absolutely terrible as well. I can't express in words how much I hate and dislike JIRA, it's horribly slow and bloated user interface and how complicated it makes certain tasks... using it as an Agile tool makes it even worse especially with Greenhopper the add-on.

Yeah, I've had a hard time figuring out why Atlassian's products became so popular. Good corporate sales people I guess. They charge a lot and the software is nearly universally terrible. Can anyone tell me some reasons I would want to use JIRA instead of Trac or Bugzilla?

Re: Show HN: HackPad is the best wiki ever

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Post by msellout »

PabloOsinaga wrote: post #34

People seem to be liking it. What I think they like (at least that's my experience with it) is to see the HN community materialize in real time. Just my 2 cents so that you can try to isolate feedback taking that into account.

Good point. It's very much fun to see more realtime interaction with a forum. You feel less like a lurker and more like a real participant. Still, I think that in itself is good feedback about the product more generally--how you market it--rather than about the specific features.

Re: Show HN: HackPad is the best wiki ever

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Post by silverlight »

Very neat. I actually had a similar idea 2 or 3 months ago (although I'm sure this is older than that) to modify Etherpad Lite into a wiki to replace the Dokuwiki we currently use at work. I was going to just build a front-end that managed the documents, though, and only pass it off to Etherpad for the actual editing. This is a much more elegant solution, and the "@" linking is genius!

If you were ever considering contributing your modifications back to the community/Etherpad/Etherpad Lite, I would certainly make good use of them. Unfortunately our wiki is a highly integrated component of our custom-built Intranet, so we couldn't make use of a SaaS solution for it. But congrats all the same! I will keep an eye out for potential non-work uses.

Re: Show HN: HackPad is the best wiki ever

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Post by gm »

X-Istence wrote: post #31
drivebyacct2 wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Oh god. I helped support an overly customized Confluence wiki that was to be THE wiki for the entire company one summer. I quickly grew to hate the software quite strongly. Took me a while to be objective about JIRA's other products when I used them later.

JIRA is the bug tracking software. Atlassian is the company. JIRA is absolutely terrible as well. I can't express in words how much I hate and dislike JIRA, it's horribly slow and bloated user interface and how complicated it makes certain tasks... using it as an Agile tool makes it even worse especially with Greenhopper the add-on.

We use JIRA + Confluence. We are a huge installation. Both work well, JIRA breaks much more often than Confluence, but then again we are adding a ton of records every single day. To be fair, JIRA breaks because some third party programs are really careless about how they call the API (ask for way too many records, and that sort of thing), if we shut off API access (and only allow JIRA access on the web interface), then all is well.

Confluence is very stable. We have a ton of content in it, and without it we are completely dead in the water. It works well.

Yeah the tags are a bit ambiguous, but I have never seen the tags get in the way. Downtime would get in the way much more.

Re: Show HN: HackPad is the best wiki ever

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Post by timc3 »

modoc wrote: post #46
X-Istence wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

JIRA is the bug tracking software. Atlassian is the company. JIRA is absolutely terrible as well. I can't express in words how much I hate and dislike JIRA, it's horribly slow and bloated user interface and how complicated it makes certain tasks... using it as an Agile tool makes it even worse especially with Greenhopper the add-on.

Lots of people here seem to dislike Confluence and Jira. What do you folks prefer? Having used Bugzilla, Trac, Mantis, MediaWiki, and several other tools I 100% prefer Jira and Confluence...

Redmine here. Currently loving it. Tried lots of others but the multiple projects and the fact that I could use plugins helps. BaseCamp was by far the worst for me.
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