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Re: Show HN: Real-time Wiki

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Post by jpatokal »

edtechdev wrote: post #12

This would be very popular indeed if a WYSIWYG editor was used instead of a markup language. There has been study after study showing how the wiki markup syntax is a hurdle to participation on wikipedia, to the point where wikipedia is now finally, after 12 years, working on a wysiwyg editor: http://techcrunch.com/2012/06/21/jimmy-wales-on-new-editing-... There are so many free and open source wysiwyg editors that ca…

Wikipedia has been working on a WYSIWYG editor for as long as I can remember, it's just that creating one for a markup syntax as convoluted as MediaWiki's (with templates, Turing-complete parser logic etc) has been near-impossible until recently.

Re: Show HN: Real-time Wiki

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Post by jes5199 »

I've been seeing demos of this sort of thing since 2003 and yet no real-time collaborative editor has actually caught on. Does anyone have any intuition as to why? I'm baffled - it sounds like a good idea to me.

Re: Show HN: Real-time Wiki

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Post by C0d3r »

seletz wrote: post #25

Oh man -- this almost fits a perfectly for me. I just wish that reStructured text was supported, but I could live with markdown. Yeah, I'm old-school. It would be awesome if this service supported dropbox and stored all files there -- using a simple directory structure. This would allow me to edit my files using VIM during the day, and I'd have a super easy search UI. I currently keep daily notes on dropbox using rst…

Sounds like this would be a good software for you: http://lurst.github.com/Pendium/

Re: Show HN: Real-time Wiki

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Post by phpfour »

This looks promising. However, I'm getting the following when I'm trying to login using my Google account:

Error: Server Error

The server encountered an error and could not complete your request.

If the problem persists, please report your problem and mention this error message and the query that caused it.

Re: Show HN: Real-time Wiki

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Post by lukifer »

Finally, the real-time Markdown wiki I've been waiting for. Love it.

What's the business model? I would be sad to see this acquihired and disappear in a puff of smoke.

Re: Show HN: Real-time Wiki

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Post by ronreiter »

lukifer wrote: post #46

Finally, the real-time Markdown wiki I've been waiting for. Love it. What's the business model? I would be sad to see this acquihired and disappear in a puff of smoke.

A SaaS freemium model for large teams, and server deployment for large organizations (non-cloud solution).

Re: Show HN: Real-time Wiki

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Post by ronreiter »

meej wrote: post #29

How might this compare with HackPad?

The concept isn't much different, but the permission model is. document.ly is very similar to Asana and Trello (allowing every user to participate in multiple projects and inviting anyone in the world to view and edit any document), while Hackpad aims for a standard B2B marketing strategy.
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