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Re: Webstudio: Open-source WYSIWYG adds Radix UI elements

#31
post #5

Not signing in "with google" or "with github" or any other unrelated 3rd party. If there's no "with email" then its goodbye. Probably a fine product though...

I prefer signing in with third party SSO because it's a lower chance of yet another website mishandling my password, though I use a password manager

Re: Webstudio: Open-source WYSIWYG adds Radix UI elements

#33
post #5

Not signing in "with google" or "with github" or any other unrelated 3rd party. If there's no "with email" then its goodbye. Probably a fine product though...

I prefer signing in with third party SSO because it's a lower chance of yet another website mishandling my password, though I use a password manager

I personally use a generated email with each service so I can track who shares my info. Sso defeats this method of reverse tracking.

Re: Webstudio: Open-source WYSIWYG adds Radix UI elements

#35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Personally I refuse to signup just to check out something I'm only passively interested in, and I will never understand why startups do this. I imagine they're immediately turning away >80% of potential customers vs. just letting people try out the damn product

Any product that allows you to consume lots of resources including API calls, interact with other users, or share anything basically needs to be authenticated to avoid misuse. This covers virtually everything. Sign in with google/apple can be virtually painless and only lets them know your email address, name, and profile pic if oauth is configured reasonably and its easy to tell on your side if its not because it as…

It’s not the only way to prevent misuse for example: captcha’s, rate-limiting etc…

I bet they implemented the login anticipating misuse… and like all other startups, there’s only a tiny chance the product would be misused, but a large chance that many people won’t use it due to the login wall.

Re: Webstudio: Open-source WYSIWYG adds Radix UI elements

#36
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post #2

I am not understanding the value of the open source builder, if I am not able to download the code and host it on my own. What does the opensource gives me additionally apart from integrating the studio on my own website. The hobby/free plan already has unlimited projects, pages and team members. Looking into the builder, I cannot see the code but just the css. Would have been good if I could create one of components…

CLI for syncing and publishing to Vercel is coming in the next weeks

Syncing and publishing what? What's so difficult about `git push` which pushes to GitHub and automatically deploys to Vercel? This doesn't look cool, but those two features are not going to be the ones I'll seek after.

Re: Webstudio: Open-source WYSIWYG adds Radix UI elements

#37
post #7
post #5

Not signing in "with google" or "with github" or any other unrelated 3rd party. If there's no "with email" then its goodbye. Probably a fine product though...

for privacy reasons? Afaik github is gdpr compliant ... or is there some other problem?

There are tons of problems with GitHub or Google only. What if you use ProtonMail and GitLab? (or any other of 20+ email / code repo providers)

Re: Webstudio: Open-source WYSIWYG adds Radix UI elements

#38

I don’t understand why downloading code is such a difficult feature for a website builder — I get the competitive aspect. BUT! It would bring so many users to your system and really would be great marketing — why not compete by giving people what they want and just practice love in not lock in? Especially when you’re already there with the OSS license? Seems a real missed opportunity.

> practice love in not lock in I haven’t heard this phrase before, it’s such a great way to describe how I like to do things, which I would have written as “compete on quality rather than treachery”

Lots of companies will behave this way... when times are good. They can be fairweather friends at best. Eventually it's time to batten down the hatches, and that's when licenses change, interop gets removed, etc. like we've seen again and again.

Re: Webstudio: Open-source WYSIWYG adds Radix UI elements

#39
post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

CLI for syncing and publishing to Vercel is coming in the next weeks

Syncing and publishing what? What's so difficult about `git push` which pushes to GitHub and automatically deploys to Vercel? This doesn't look cool, but those two features are not going to be the ones I'll seek after.

Syncing the site data from builder to local fs and then building everything and configuring the app for publishing to vercel.

Just pushing to github only helps you if you only have static html/css if you wanted to publish a site as gh-page ... I guess you need to clarify your use case

Re: Webstudio: Open-source WYSIWYG adds Radix UI elements

#40

Tried Webstudio, I still prefer using Divhunt over any other builder/CMS https://divhunt.com

Took a look.. got interested after first scroll.

Clicked pricing. It's all per month - no way to own it / buy - it's a lock-in-lease, where "your monthly bill only increases when you're making more money!"

Pass.

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