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Re: Show HN: HackPad is the best wiki ever

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Post by kofman »

wmat wrote: post #76

This is an interesting project, however, as someone who administers several wikis, both public and private I honestly wouldn't give up control of the server side to the cloud ever. The simple reason is data control. I want daily backups of my wiki data. Can I do that with this? Similarly, where's the source? Where's the install for private wikis, such as a company's private internal wiki? Where's the api so I can wri…

> I want daily backups of my wiki data. Can I do that with this?

Yes. We back up hourly, and we give you a way to get a full html zip dump with a single http request.

> Similarly, where's the source? / Where's the install for private wikis, such as a company's private internal wiki?

Hackpad is not open-source but would a jar or VM you can run internally do the trick?

> Plugins? Nothing yet - we hope to make something

> What is preventing wiki spammers? Private instances are invite-only (or can be setup to automatically let people with certain email domains in), there's also revision history etc.

>Themes? Not yet.

>I see that groups are 'private' based on my invitations to them, but how can I be sure this isn't easily compromised?

Hackpad always runs on https and we take security seriously. Outside of that as I said - if there's interest we may offer a jar/vm you can run inside the firewall.

Thanks for the feedback / questions!

Re: Show HN: HackPad is the best wiki ever

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Post by mindctrl »

orph wrote: post #69
WA wrote: post #67

It's nice. But how do I delete my account and my Google contacts that were imported in your database?

We don't store Google contacts on disk, so they will disappear with a couple days of account inactivity.

Huh? How are they stored for a couple days if they're not on disk?

Re: Show HN: HackPad is the best wiki ever

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Post by unicornporn »

kofman wrote: post #63
timc3 wrote: post #61

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Would be interesting to know which features?

Some of hackpad's features are: task-lists, inline linking and page creation, simple image embedding, search, deep email integration, dropbox integration, mobile (iphone,android) support, an osx launcher/search app. The way hackpad handles basic editing and authorship annotation has also received a lot of attention and iteration. Play with it and let us know what you think!

I think a hackers pad should really have a -button (monospaced font). Otherwise, great tool.

Re: Show HN: HackPad is the best wiki ever

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Post by tripzilch »

JoeCortopassi wrote: post #55
orph wrote: post #51

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Yeah great that he's okay with us poking at code that is being downloaded interpreted and run on our own machines(!) j/k ;-)

Re: Show HN: HackPad is the best wiki ever

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Post by [deleted] »

JoeCortopassi wrote: post #55
orph wrote: post #51

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

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