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Re: Show HN: HackPad is the best wiki ever

#21

Thank you for making this. I really like it. A long time ago in a startup far far away a friend and I built something like this. Ours was nowhere near as elegant. We would look for CamelCaseWords to kick off the autocomplete but your use of @ is much better. Delightful moments: pasting an image url embeds the image. Consider letting me backspace the image to get back to the url. The multi-user edit seemed very smooth…

Came across Dropbox integration but couldn't see it doing anything.

Re: Show HN: HackPad is the best wiki ever

#23

I really don't like that I have to sign in with Google or Facebook to try it in read/write mode. Read-only mode is not good enough for me to tell if it's something I want to use, and having to use Google or Facebook just to try it is a dealbreaker for me, sorry. Which is a shame, because it looks neat. Fix that, then I'd be interested in giving it a try. Edit: I missed the ability to sign in without Google/Facebook.…

About your login issues, I integrated BrowserID to a project I'm working on the other day, and my god, am I in love. BrowserID.org is beautiful and very well made, easy to use and easy for the users to understand (you don't really realize you're at a third party website).

Integration with django took about ten minutes and I don't have to wrestle with all the forgotten password templates and workflows, changing passwords, storing them securely, etc etc any longer. Also, it doesn't depend on Facebook, Google or anyone else (if I want to run the verification myself).

I really hope it catches on, and I'd strongly recommend it to any dev.

Re: Show HN: HackPad is the best wiki ever

#24

Thank you for making this. I really like it. A long time ago in a startup far far away a friend and I built something like this. Ours was nowhere near as elegant. We would look for CamelCaseWords to kick off the autocomplete but your use of @ is much better. Delightful moments: pasting an image url embeds the image. Consider letting me backspace the image to get back to the url. The multi-user edit seemed very smooth…

Came across Dropbox integration but couldn't see it doing anything.

It lets you insert shared links to any file in your dropbox by typing @ in any pad - it'll autocomplete by file name.

Re: Show HN: HackPad is the best wiki ever

#26
post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If there's demand, we'll definitely consider offering this.

Confluence is the wiki we use where I work and I absolutely hate it (ending tags is like you are opening a tag, so {bold}this would be bold{bold} (example, I don't remember any tags off the top of my head). If something better came along that helped us rather than slowed us down it would be fantastic.

Oh god. I helped support an overly customized Confluence wiki that was to be THE wiki for the entire company one summer. I quickly grew to hate the software quite strongly. Took me a while to be objective about JIRA's other products when I used them later.

Re: Show HN: HackPad is the best wiki ever

#27

Thank you for making this. I really like it. A long time ago in a startup far far away a friend and I built something like this. Ours was nowhere near as elegant. We would look for CamelCaseWords to kick off the autocomplete but your use of @ is much better. Delightful moments: pasting an image url embeds the image. Consider letting me backspace the image to get back to the url. The multi-user edit seemed very smooth…

Just discovered the refactoring feature.

Select some text. Click "Create Pad" and give it a name. The new pad is created with the selected text and the name links to it. This was a little disconcerting at first but it's absolutely the right thing.

I got the @User stuff to work. I think it matches contacts from my google contacts against other users who have signed up for HackPad. That's reasonable.

Re: Show HN: HackPad is the best wiki ever

#28
post #12

Why does this request access to my Google Contacts when signing in using my Google Account? No thanks.

We do it in order to let you auto-complete your contact's names in order to invite them to pads. We absolutely never email your contacts unless you explicitly invite someone. That said we understand your concern and hence offer the regular email sign-in option.

Consider saying this explicitly during the sign-up process! I avoided using my Google account to log in, but I probably would have gone ahead and done it if I'd known that you weren't going to email my contacts.
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