Interesting still based on the original Etherpad rather than Etherpad-lite which is actually based on Node.js and works much better.
Etherpad-lite has a lot of interesting plugins.
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#42Hackpad is wonderful. We use it as a quick tool to discuss our ideas. It's more readable, gives a proper track of changes, and is effective. Having known that it has gone open source makes feel even better.
However, didn't Dropbox bought Hackpad earlier ?
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They fired the guy who made them open source and held the release until their Notes product was ready.
I can only confirm this via a throwaway for lots of reasons, but this is correct. Note: I am not Alex.
I'd be careful about using a throwaway. At least do something to mask your IP address and other digital footprint.
You're posting to the YC forum about a YC company whom you're connected to. People involved may be reading, and it's just a short phone call away..
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Hmm. Not only do they make unnecessary, irrelevant, and generally overreaching demands on your privacy, but you get modded down for objecting to it. Sounds like a great product. Where do I sign up? Absolutely nothing makes me reach for the back button faster than a "X requests access to Y" notification that doesn't explain exactly why X needs access to Y, and what X will do with its newly-granted access.
For ephemeral collaboration, just use an semi-anonymous EtherPad fork like PiratePad. http://piratepad.net/
Or if you want an anonymous pad with video chat, http://snapmeet.io
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For ephemeral collaboration, just use an semi-anonymous EtherPad fork like PiratePad. http://piratepad.net/
Or if you want an anonymous pad with video chat, http://snapmeet.io
That's not anonymous. It talks to cloudflare.com, bootstrapcdn.com, fonts.googleapis.com, mxpnl.com and cloudfront.net in addition to snapmeet.io. None of the connections are over https and there's probably quite some cookie sending and fingerprinting involved.
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#47Similar projects exist that use OpenDocument Format as the underlying file format.
https://github.com/adityab/Manticore https://github.com/kogmbh/kotype
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Check out https://slimwiki.com
I really wish that, someday, I could click on a cool link on Hacker News for a service that's personal document storage and syncing and, near the bottom of the page, would read the text "host this on your own server using [these instructions]."
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Check out https://slimwiki.com
I really wish that, someday, I could click on a cool link on Hacker News for a service that's personal document storage and syncing and, near the bottom of the page, would read the text "host this on your own server using [these instructions]."
Seafile maybe? I never used dropbox but I think it can do all the same. Installation is trivial nowadays and setup is 10 minutes maybe.
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Notes is really good. It just saddens me that Dropbox does not base those systems on top of Dropbox but somewhere separately. I wish I could just get .md files or something similar in my Dropbox from what's on notes.
What about using something like Notational Velocity / nvAlt (which will keep your notes on Dropbox, and has mobile clients available too)?
nvAlt never played well with Dropbox for me. I tried to use it at home and at work, sharing my notes/documents via Dropbox and I had all kinds of sync issues unless I was super dliligent about closing the client on one machine before opening it on the other (something I didn't always remember to do and once I'm at work, I can't close the home one and then can't use it all day etc)