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Re: Draw.io: Online Diagramming Website

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Post by abainbridge »

thayne wrote: post #132
abainbridge wrote: post #122

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Dragging the canvas around with the middle mouse button seems much more intuitive in draw.io to me.

That has worked in lucidchart for a while.

I wasn't trying to claim that middle mouse canvas movement didn't work in Lucidchart. The mechanism is just different, and IMO worse, than the one in draw.io. I think if you ask ten users to try both, you'll find a clear preference for the draw.io mechanism. I think it is important because it is an exceedingly commonly used feature.

Re: Draw.io: Online Diagramming Website

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Post by chanux »

andrei_says_ wrote: post #156
blakeburch wrote: post #137

If you're looking for a fantastic diagramming site, I would recommend checking out [Whimsical]( https://whimsical.com/ ). I've tried out a lot of solutions over the years (draw.io, LucidChart,Gliffy, etc.). Whimsical is the first that really nails the UI/UX. You spend less time fighting the system to make something that looks great and more time just building out your diagram. I'm not associated with the product at a…

Love the interface and the fact that it's written in Clojure but it's worth mentioning Whimsical is $10/month vs. draw.io being free forever, and the Whimsical limited intro version is crippled in some quite annoying ways.

Pretty sure they know what they are doing with pricing (and "charge more" mantra and all that) but I wonder if there will be more people paying if the prices were lower. With cheap storage and serverless compute one would think pricing could be better.

PS: The UX is great and the diagrams are beautiful but I don't use it enough to pay THAT much. It's totally OK though, I'm probably not in the target market.

Re: Draw.io: Online Diagramming Website

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Post by chanux »

mcntall wrote: post #43

For those without MS Visio or other paid alternatives, Draw.io can pretty much get you covered at zero cost, with the option of doing it client-side, online, etc. Not sure if the founders have the option, but I would encourage folks to donate a couple of bucks to encourage high quality free software such as this.

How to donate? Sorry I could not find out myself.

Re: Draw.io: Online Diagramming Website

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Post by davidjgraph »

beernutz wrote: post #114
ouid wrote: post #72

When trying to create a new drawing, if I select the "not in my root folder" option, it a) tries to log me in despite my already being logged in, and b) fails anyway.

I see the same issue. I can save to root folder only in google drive. Also i am unable to open a file in google drive as it has the same "log in" dialog. https://www.screencast.com/t/g4wnSWLDtOLk Clicking the "Sign in" button closes the dialog and reopens it. It does this cycle twice, then shows this error pane: https://www.screencast.com/t/qmUhxSuU2T

Pleas file an issue at https://github.com/jgraph/drawio/issues. Can't recreate currently, but need more details.

Re: Draw.io: Online Diagramming Website

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Post by baddate »

fouc wrote: post #95
sandGorgon wrote: post #46

Is it possible to add Monodraw ( https://monodraw.helftone.com/ ) style text art to this ? I would pay for something that is browser only and generates really nice text art for diagrams.

http://asciiflow.com/ maybe?

I very like it, it's simple but powerful!

Re: Draw.io: Online Diagramming Website

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Post by binbasti »

hanniabu wrote: post #85
flanbiscuit wrote: post #29

> draw.io is a client-side, static web application. There is no user authenication or data storage concept in this repo. The online version stores data in mainstream cloud storage options, currently Google Drive, OneDrive, Dropbox, Github, Gitlab or Trello. I love this about Draw.io. This is how I want to build my applications. I don't want to deal with storing any user data and rather let them handle it how they see…

> mainstream cloud storage options, currently Google Drive, OneDrive, Dropbox, Github, Gitlab or Trello. Anybody know of a library of service (preferably open source) that offers an easy API to interact with all these in such a way?

The remoteStorage reference client can also sync with Google Drive and Dropbox:

https://remotestoragejs.readthedocs.io/en/latest/getting-sta...

Re: Draw.io: Online Diagramming Website

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Post by jamaicahest »

andrei_says_ wrote: post #156
blakeburch wrote: post #137

If you're looking for a fantastic diagramming site, I would recommend checking out [Whimsical]( https://whimsical.com/ ). I've tried out a lot of solutions over the years (draw.io, LucidChart,Gliffy, etc.). Whimsical is the first that really nails the UI/UX. You spend less time fighting the system to make something that looks great and more time just building out your diagram. I'm not associated with the product at a…

Love the interface and the fact that it's written in Clojure but it's worth mentioning Whimsical is $10/month vs. draw.io being free forever, and the Whimsical limited intro version is crippled in some quite annoying ways.

To any business, $10 / month is literally nothing. If you pay $10 / month as a person, then I can see why it matters, but to a business that amount is nothing.

Re: Draw.io: Online Diagramming Website

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Post by eric234223 »

blakeburch wrote: post #137

If you're looking for a fantastic diagramming site, I would recommend checking out [Whimsical]( https://whimsical.com/ ). I've tried out a lot of solutions over the years (draw.io, LucidChart,Gliffy, etc.). Whimsical is the first that really nails the UI/UX. You spend less time fighting the system to make something that looks great and more time just building out your diagram. I'm not associated with the product at a…

"Whimsical" You can't even try without providing your email. Any app/website asking me to do the hard work of providing my email when i have to do the favor of trying it out, my response has been no thanks, i am not gonna try.
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