I intend to replace Etherpad

#1

Post by bnoland » Sat, Dec 05, 2009, 4:28 PM UTC

I intend to replace Etherpad
bennoland.com

Re: I intend to replace Etherpad

#2

Post by FreeRadical » Sat, Dec 05, 2009, 4:40 PM UTC

Can you please put a video of your product in action (being used by multiple users) on your site please?

Re: I intend to replace Etherpad

#3

Post by bnoland » Sat, Dec 05, 2009, 4:43 PM UTC

FreeRadical wrote: post #2

Can you please put a video of your product in action (being used by multiple users) on your site please?

Probably not today, but you try it out: http://collabedit.com/display?id=44959

You can also open multiple browser windows if no one else is there.

Re: I intend to replace Etherpad

#4

Post by tudorachim » Sat, Dec 05, 2009, 5:05 PM UTC

bnoland wrote: post #3

FreeRadical wrote: post #2

Can you please put a video of your product in action (being used by multiple users) on your site please?

Probably not today, but you try it out: http://collabedit.com/display?id=44959 You can also open multiple browser windows if no one else is there.

This is pretty sweet; it seems like a nicer way to do one-off pastebins than current sites.

Re: I intend to replace Etherpad

#5

Post by dpcan » Sat, Dec 05, 2009, 5:05 PM UTC

You are not alone. I spent hours last night working on my own that's been abandoned for a long time. You are a little ahead of the game right now, and it looks nice!

With the leader out of the way for a while, I can't help but wonder how many of these will pop-up, and how many geeks did the same thing last night :)

Re: I intend to replace Etherpad

#6

Post by antirez » Sat, Dec 05, 2009, 5:52 PM UTC

I guess it's a start but I don't like graphics, the fact it's full screen, the lack of the chat, when multiple clients are connected I see a strange "refresh" effect like scrolling on the top then returning, and so forth. Does not feel like a solid product with a nice UI currently so I think that before to add more features you should try to improve what you already have.

Re: I intend to replace Etherpad

#7

Post by slackerIII » Sat, Dec 05, 2009, 6:59 PM UTC

Wouldn't it be funny if this was exactly what google intended when they shut it down? Surely it helps Wave and future products if a bunch of engineers start building expertise with this type of tech.

Re: I intend to replace Etherpad

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Post by bumblebird » Sat, Dec 05, 2009, 7:19 PM UTC

slackerIII wrote: post #7

Wouldn't it be funny if this was exactly what google intended when they shut it down? Surely it helps Wave and future products if a bunch of engineers start building expertise with this type of tech.

You can (as we see) knock up a bare bones copy reasonably easily. The expertise is already out there. I'd say quite a lot of people are working on realtime collaborative comet stuff, and have been for quite a while now.

The hard bit is getting people to use it.

I wrote a fun multiplayer drawing applet (Java) back in 2000, but no one used it :( sob. Actually a few did, it was fun anyway :) One of my points is, this technology is nothing new.

Re: I intend to replace Etherpad

#9

Post by furtivefelon » Sat, Dec 05, 2009, 7:52 PM UTC

a forever qualm about online code editor i have is that they don't do automatic indenting properly. I have never used etherpad, i'm not sure how well they did this, but textmate is a good example to model after :D

Re: I intend to replace Etherpad

#10

Post by cmelbye » Sat, Dec 05, 2009, 8:01 PM UTC

furtivefelon wrote: post #9

a forever qualm about online code editor i have is that they don't do automatic indenting properly. I have never used etherpad, i'm not sure how well they did this, but textmate is a good example to model after :D

Yeah, TextMate's auto-identing is very smart and usually perfect at reading my mind. I'd like to see something like that in an online collaboration notepad like this because it's a lot of work to do it manually after using TextMate so much ;-)