They clearly detail that an internet connection is required to activate[0].
Whenever I read such statements, I always find myself wondering: What's their plan for when the product is discontinued? It's a "when", not an "if", after all.
Typora 1.0
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#12Actually its a good business model and typora seems to look clean WYSIWYG editor. And making such things requires a lot of effort etc. It also seems to be cross platform so paying $15 for product which seems to be regularly updated doesn't seems bad. I think I will purchase it even though I don't use it just to encourage the author.
Thanks for no subscription etc gimmicks.
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#13Good for them! I’ve been a longtime fan. I still use Typora to edit most of my markdown - mostly because it’s pretty close to Gitlab’s rendering capabilities in terms of diagram support. I also love how lightweight it’s always felt; it opens super quickly on every machine I’ve used it on. Kudos to the devs!
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#14I have used Typora, it's alright — but it's definitely no Obsidian[^1] Typora is very limited in terms of plugins / customisability — although it's standard feature set might be enough Obsidian is my new Emacs, it rules my life through some plugins I've written for myself, it can be a simple focus driven markdown editor like Typora if I need it to be, or a full knowledge suite like Notion and the likes of that all wh…
Typora is nice for the clean WYSIWYG editing experience, but now that Obsidian has Live Preview mode (currently in Insider-access beta) I had actually just uninstalled Typora because I was having trouble updating it and didn't feel like dealing with figuring out why. I guess the new licensing is why, heh.
Thanks for making me aware of the Live Preview mode. You've just earned Obsidian another Catalyst subscriber.
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#15I love using Typora. My favorite feature is the mathjax support. It has replaced latex for me for grad school assignments and saves a lot of time.
Great to see that they won’t be going the subscription route.
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#16For all the people saying you'd be happy to pay for this given its value to you: you're missing the point. The DRM is the problem, and paid software is perfectly capable of existing without DRM.
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#17I've been using Typora for years and always appreciated the simplicity of use. In the case where I'm writing prose I want the tool to stay out of my way and provide just enough value to be pleasureful.
I've gladly paid the one time fee and plan to continue using it over Obsidian and Roam which I've tried in the past.
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#18They clearly detail that an internet connection is required to activate[0]. Whenever I read such statements, I always find myself wondering: What's their plan for when the product is discontinued? It's a "when", not an "if", after all. [0] https://support.typora.io/activation/
Yeah, that's one side. But how you can guarantee that everyone that uses your software has really a license? It is not an easy problem.
And once, the product is discontinued, they still could release an update disabling the license check.
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#19They clearly detail that an internet connection is required to activate[0]. Whenever I read such statements, I always find myself wondering: What's their plan for when the product is discontinued? It's a "when", not an "if", after all. [0] https://support.typora.io/activation/
Yeah, that's one side. But how you can guarantee that everyone that uses your software has really a license? It is not an easy problem. And once, the product is discontinued, they still could release an update disabling the license check.
> But how you can guarantee that everyone that uses your software has really a license?
You can't guarantee that even with DRM, since it's breakable.
> And once, the product is discontinued, they still could release an update disabling the license check.
They could, but what if they don't? It's not like they're legally obligated to escrow their source code in case they don't, or anything like that.
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#20I have used Typora, it's alright — but it's definitely no Obsidian[^1] Typora is very limited in terms of plugins / customisability — although it's standard feature set might be enough Obsidian is my new Emacs, it rules my life through some plugins I've written for myself, it can be a simple focus driven markdown editor like Typora if I need it to be, or a full knowledge suite like Notion and the likes of that all wh…
100% agree. In addition, Obsidian has a great Vim mode, which is something that we've been asking for in Typora for years [0]. Typora is less buggy than Codemirror, but it's a small price to pay for native keybondings. I've now completely switched over to it, from a combination of Typora and Inkdrop. Obsidian still doesn't replicate Typora's clean aesthetic though. It's something I really wish it had - some kind of c…
Maybe check out the new Typewriter theme for Obsidian + Focus Mode plugin?
https://github.com/crashmoney/obsidian-typewriter https://github.com/ryanpcmcquen/obsidian-focus-mode