Etherpad clones tend to go away, not sure what it is about them. How do we know you'll stick around?
It's an mvp at this stage, if we introduce paid plans we'll stick around :) For now we're using it ourselves if that's any consolation
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#43Earlier quoted context omitted.
We may open source it later if we have time to clean up the code :)
Open source would be awesome, particularly because I really want to use this for a personal website. I have a feeling that that's probably not a use case I'd be happy with if I couldn't get in and modify things.
Yes, I feel the exact same way. There are specific functionalities that I would need.
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#44I'm having a problem toggling back and forth with [esc]. I am using Safari 5.1.7 ... hitting esc always toggles it from normal to markdown mode, but toggling back to normal is difficult ... I have to click around in the different panes a few times and keep hitting escape, and eventually one of them will work. Is it indeed supposed to toggle back and forth with escape, pressed once, regardless of which pane your mouse…
sorry, fixed
thanks - it appears to work now.
I think the esc key toggling is a fantastic idea.
I was just about to switch my wiki platform to vimwiki, but this is making me rethink that...
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#45This looks great and I love the ease of use, however I just can't use it yet. I could spend a lot of time putting info into this but there's no question if it will be gone any day. For me to trust it enough to use it, I either need to be able to install it to my own server or want to pay for it. You should really add a minimal homepage with an email signup as well if you intend to work on this more. The product is se…
Thanks, we've built it for ourselves and wanted to see if anyone else would be interested first. Would happily add accounts and charge a small subscription fee for it. How many dollars per month would it be worth to you?)
I'm interested in it as a library or an open source tool that I can integrate, but as a paid product, I believe it falls a little bit short of an MVP.
What's unique about what you have here is the realtime collaborative editing. We use NestaCMS (which also understands Markdown) hooked up to a Dropbox folder in a few places. The functionality is similar, but there's no in-page editor, and we can't collaborate in real time.
Both of those things have value to me, but I have serious reservations about jumping on to a wiki product that I can't control. Documentation is a complete pain in the ass. When I put time in to it, I need to feel 100% confident that I won't have to abandon it at a future date; either because I run up against a feature ceiling, or because you disappear. And if I do have to leave, I need to be able to get my information out of the system.
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#46Is this something we can purchase and self host ? Or is this something you plan to make available only as a hosted wiki service ?
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#47Very 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?
I was fighting against making the same comment, since it's kind of a weird thing that I do when viewing a web page is to repeatedly select the block of text I'm reading. Whenever people are looking over my shoulder, they always seem annoyed by my doing it, so I figure I'm unique in that regard, but I'm glad somebody pointed it out.
It's not weird... lots of people do it. I do it to keep track of where I'm reading...
There was actually a HN Poll about it a little while ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4839436
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#48Cool! What are your concepts for implementing SSO, I18N, L10N, RBAC and maybe any kind of (automated) workflow management? It´s enterprise, isn´t it?
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#49The one thing I believe that all collaborative editors need is accountability for edits. It would be great if you can build a simple sign-in and track all operations based on which user is committing them. Then you can do some neat things like rolling back the document in time, or just removing the edits of certain users. Just a thought.
I love the idea of a collaborative and intuitive web-based editor that works on mobile platforms. Nice work!
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#50I'm having a problem toggling back and forth with [esc]. I am using Safari 5.1.7 ... hitting esc always toggles it from normal to markdown mode, but toggling back to normal is difficult ... I have to click around in the different panes a few times and keep hitting escape, and eventually one of them will work. Is it indeed supposed to toggle back and forth with escape, pressed once, regardless of which pane your mouse…
This is due to a bug/weirdness with how Safari deals with using the ESC key for a hotkey with javascript. Safari actually fires key events for the escape key hundreds of times per second. This can cause some unexpected behavior if you don't do some clever javascript to handle this bug. I came here to comment on the same issue - hitting escape to edit will work for the first toggle, but afterwards to say 'i'm done edi…
ESC is used to exit a mode in VI. So it could be good for "I'm doing editing this text" in that sense.