Show HN: Firepad, an open source collaborative text editor • Hacker News Board

Re: Show HN: Firepad, an open source collaborative text editor

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Post by mikelehen » Tue, Apr 09, 2013, 5:15 PM UTC

jfaucett wrote: post #20

okay, after working in this for a couple minutes I found it to be AWESOME!!! great job guys. Obviously, there's a ton of people on it right now, and the proverbial dicks just pasting 10101 all over to annoy, but in a team i could see how this would be really awesome. While working on it there was a short minute where the dicks let off and i really got to see how great this can be for teaming up to iteractively write…

Thanks! Glad you like it. You can also click the "Private Pad" link in the top right to get away from the chaos. :-)

Re: Show HN: Firepad, an open source collaborative text editor

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Post by binarysoul » Tue, Apr 09, 2013, 5:20 PM UTC

I don't see how this could be used for collaborative code editing. Is there an example of this?

Re: Show HN: Firepad, an open source collaborative text editor

#23

Post by Johnyma22 » Tue, Apr 09, 2013, 5:21 PM UTC

I think this is a really early stage Etherpad. Check out Etherpad's features if you can, you have your work cut out though http://etherpad.org

Re: Show HN: Firepad, an open source collaborative text editor

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Post by mayop100 » Tue, Apr 09, 2013, 5:22 PM UTC

Johnyma22 wrote: post #23

I think this is a really early stage Etherpad. Check out Etherpad's features if you can, you have your work cut out though http://etherpad.org

What features would you like to see implemented next in Firepad?

Re: Show HN: Firepad, an open source collaborative text editor

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Post by mikelehen » Tue, Apr 09, 2013, 5:23 PM UTC

binarysoul wrote: post #22

I don't see how this could be used for collaborative code editing. Is there an example of this?

Yup! http://www.firepad.io/examples/#code

Atlassian[1] and Action.io have already built stuff with it.

1. https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.atlassian.stas...

Re: Show HN: Firepad, an open source collaborative text editor

#26

Post by gautaml » Tue, Apr 09, 2013, 5:25 PM UTC

Why do people waste time investing into something like this?

I realize everyone wants to be on the 'cloud' but I don't really see how anyone could be productive or efficient with something like this.

Re: Show HN: Firepad, an open source collaborative text editor

#27

Post by davidedicillo » Tue, Apr 09, 2013, 5:26 PM UTC

Seems a lot of people are forgetting about http://hackpad.com

Re: Show HN: Firepad, an open source collaborative text editor

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Post by j_s » Tue, Apr 09, 2013, 5:41 PM UTC

davidedicillo wrote: post #27

Seems a lot of people are forgetting about http://hackpad.com

Perhaps because hackpad isn't [edit: as gung-ho about being] open source (if they are at all)? I'm sure there are other commercial offerings too... like yours!

Re: Show HN: Firepad, an open source collaborative text editor

#29

Post by Vecrios » Tue, Apr 09, 2013, 5:47 PM UTC

This is awesome. It's like a chat but with the ability to edit what other people are saying! So much potential!

Re: Show HN: Firepad, an open source collaborative text editor

#30

Post by vramosp » Tue, Apr 09, 2013, 5:53 PM UTC

mikelehen wrote: post #18

stevejohnson wrote: post #16

I am unable to scroll down on the page without it jumping back up to the animated demo thingy. Chrome 25 OSX.

Ooops. When the editor has focus, it tries to keep your cursor visible when it moves. And your cursor can end up moving due to other people's edits. I tweaked the page to not auto-focus the editor. Thanks!

I had the same problem. Thanks for fixing it!