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Congratulations to the Etherpad team. It's too bad that AppJet never took off more as a product; It seemed like it had a lot of potential. Etherpad was a lot of fun- I used it internally on a few projects, after seeing PG's demo with playback. Hopefully you can add that feature to Google Wave while you're there; It was by far my favorite aspect of Etherpad. Even thought I can copy and paste my Etherpads into G:Wave,…
Well, that sucks. I was psyched when I first read the subject, since I figured they'd be lending Google Docs their awesome text editor. Instead they're going to Google Wave, where the interface blows. Etherpad's lightyears more useful, more flexible, and more valuable. Blah.
I've missed Jotspot, now Etherpad. Just hope Google Wave will not be the next Google Sites.
I have never used Etherpad, and from the comments I'm a little saddened to find that now I can't check it out. Does anyone have an old Etherpad that I can play with, or even just a video of how it's used?
Here's a test pad: http://etherpad.com/FQMBcRK9x2
"Edits to the document are represented as mathematical functions that can be applied in any order, and have other special properties that make this realtime."
Unfortunately I don't have the math background to really connect what that means.
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I think the benefits of having a successful peer far outweigh your ability to use a free online text editor. Whatever loss in productivity is caused by the absence of Etherpad (or god forbid, having to use a G-branded version, or another service) can be made up for with the rush and motivation you should get from seeing one of your own get off the Ramen diet at last (or at least not have to worry if their effort will…
You do know that probably most of Etherpad's users aren't their peers, yeah? So to them, they've just lost a really great service.
I will have to repent and become a consumer activist: I will boycott products A/B tested on humans.
(end of selfish rant, congrats btw)
I've been using it for my interview transcripts. With Etherpad, I can let 12 people on Mechanical Turk each transcribe a 5-minute section of my interview. And they can all be on at once and none of them needs and account.
I can even hit the play button and see how they work: http://mixergy.etherpad.com/ep/pad/view/23/latest
As it happens, anyone knew an Etherpad replacement or alternative?
Squad, https://squadedit.com/
Squad serves a great purpose for developers working together on code, but it isn't embedable, and doesn't do wysiwyg text formating. It's focused on syntax highlighting and opening and saving local files. So for some it may be an alternative, but not for everybody.
Congratulations to the AppJet/Etherpad team. When I thought about your "exit" options, Google was at the top of the list. This doesn't surprise me given how talented you folks are and the real-time web expertise that Google needs more of these days. It really really sucks to see Google shutting down Etherpad though. We used it at Poll Everywhere quite a bit for collaborative coding, now we'll have to find something e…
try Gobby. gnu/linux only, iirc