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Re: Show HN: Etherpad meets Markdown for a minimal company wiki

#11

Post by akrymski » Mon, Dec 17, 2012, 5:32 PM UTC

rustc wrote: post #9

Looks neat! What tech stack are you using on this?

thanks! node.js

Re: Show HN: Etherpad meets Markdown for a minimal company wiki

#12

Post by rustc » Mon, Dec 17, 2012, 5:34 PM UTC

akrymski wrote: post #11

rustc wrote: post #9

Looks neat! What tech stack are you using on this?

thanks! node.js

Any JS frameworks? Are you using Etherpad Lite?

Re: Show HN: Etherpad meets Markdown for a minimal company wiki

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Post by rustc » Mon, Dec 17, 2012, 5:36 PM UTC

akrymski wrote: post #11

rustc wrote: post #9

Looks neat! What tech stack are you using on this?

thanks! node.js

Small bug: The markdown editing textarea is not full width on Firefox, it's very narrow. Works fine in Chrome though.

Re: Show HN: Etherpad meets Markdown for a minimal company wiki

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Post by hvs » Mon, Dec 17, 2012, 5:41 PM UTC

I appreciate what you've done here, but when I hear the words "enterprise wiki" (as your URL implies) and you can't paste MS Word formatted text into it, I feel a disconnect. I'm not saying that is how it should work, or is a feature that I would like, but if you approach an enterprise with this and explained that they would have to use something called Markdown to update it, they would laugh in your face. Most, if not all, non-technical users of software do not want to (or simply cannot) write markup in any form.

Nice work, though. I really like it.

Re: Show HN: Etherpad meets Markdown for a minimal company wiki

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Post by 2arrs2ells » Mon, Dec 17, 2012, 5:46 PM UTC

Very cool!

I was a bit frustrated by not being able to select text when in "view" mode (text selection worked fine in markdown mode - using latest version of Chrome on a mac). Is this a side effect of the iOS shortcuts?

Re: Show HN: Etherpad meets Markdown for a minimal company wiki

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Post by zitterbewegung » Mon, Dec 17, 2012, 5:47 PM UTC

I have a issue with the name. Why not call it markdownwiki instead of enterprise wiki. Immediately I know what your wiki is and does. Good work on the execution though.

Re: Show HN: Etherpad meets Markdown for a minimal company wiki

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Post by akrymski » Mon, Dec 17, 2012, 5:49 PM UTC

2arrs2ells wrote: post #15

Very cool! I was a bit frustrated by not being able to select text when in "view" mode (text selection worked fine in markdown mode - using latest version of Chrome on a mac). Is this a side effect of the iOS shortcuts?

ha, thanks for spotting that bug, yeah its the gesture library causing issues ... fixed now.

Re: Show HN: Etherpad meets Markdown for a minimal company wiki

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Post by rufugee » Mon, Dec 17, 2012, 5:49 PM UTC

2arrs2ells wrote: post #15

Very cool! I was a bit frustrated by not being able to select text when in "view" mode (text selection worked fine in markdown mode - using latest version of Chrome on a mac). Is this a side effect of the iOS shortcuts?

Nope...same here with Chrome on Ubuntu 12.10.

Re: Show HN: Etherpad meets Markdown for a minimal company wiki

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Post by StavrosK » Mon, Dec 17, 2012, 5:51 PM UTC

Can you enable slashes in keys? It would be nice to get subpages by adding a link to enterprisewiki.co/wiki/myguid/somepage from my wiki. Still secret, but much better for organization, and you can add it with one trivial change.

Re: Show HN: Etherpad meets Markdown for a minimal company wiki

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Post by druidsbane » Mon, Dec 17, 2012, 5:51 PM UTC

2arrs2ells wrote: post #15

Very cool! I was a bit frustrated by not being able to select text when in "view" mode (text selection worked fine in markdown mode - using latest version of Chrome on a mac). Is this a side effect of the iOS shortcuts?

Agreed, that is probably a dealbreaker if you can't copy and paste things from a wiki, especially commands or code snippets in an enterprise environment ;) Plus, definitely needs to be downloadable and installable internally for this to gain any traction!