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The open source DOCX editor submitted to HN a few weeks ago has been deleted
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Re: The open source DOCX editor submitted to HN a few weeks ago has been deleted
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i love when insecure dickheads pull out the talentless hack card, while they also whinge about skill atrophy and brain fry. the doublethink is on the nose and delicious.
Re: The open source DOCX editor submitted to HN a few weeks ago has been deleted
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#55Earlier quoted context omitted.
i love when insecure dickheads pull out the talentless hack card, while they also whinge about skill atrophy and brain fry. the doublethink is on the nose and delicious.
mitchellh is an insecure dickhead now?
didn't know he was the source of this until after i posted, but i'm not surprised. he's certainly been on quite the bender lately indeed. but the way this usually works, i'd wager a guess he always has been.
Re: The open source DOCX editor submitted to HN a few weeks ago has been deleted
#56Also not affiliated but my open-source tinycld uses docx as the backend storage for its text package. Supports _most_ of the features (including comments and suggestions) but is still very young. It has a golang backend that reads/writes docx and translates to YJS that the editor reads for multi-user access. Has web/iOS/Android support. I found docx to be a very well documented format and a surprisingly good fit for…
I went looking around, but I couldn't find why you're making tinycld, and whether I could expect it to keep going as a project in the future. I expect I could find whether you're using hardened server implementations or reimplementing, but if it's the former, you should advertise that, or if the latter, you shouldn't.
It's pretty simple: I have a small company and we're using it internally. my hope by releasing it is that the ecosystem will grow and it'll become the best way to publish web apps (ambitious I know).
I do not know what you expect by "hardened server implementations", it's open-source and people will probably host it a lot of different ways? If you're talking about the various services it offers like imap/webdav, I'm using well established golang libraries which I hope are secure but I have not performed a security audit or anything like that.
Re: The open source DOCX editor submitted to HN a few weeks ago has been deleted
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Nothing weird about it. The HN guidelines[1] make it clear, IMO, that while some self-promotion is fine, the intent here is NOT to use the site primarily (or exclusively) for self-promotion. The account that submitted the userplane.io link had only ever submitted two links, and both were to userplane.io. What do you expect to happen? Please don't use HN primarily for promotion. It's ok to post your own stuff part of…
> had only ever submitted two links, and both were to userplane.io That doesn't appear to be correct. The account's public submission history shows multiple submissions beyond userplane.io. Here's the submission history for reference: https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=wizenheimer Edit: Looks like my original comment was flagged too, woah
> Looks like my original comment was flagged too
Self-linking via sockpuppet accounts isn’t welcome here, especially when it’s as off-topic as yours, and it’s no surprise our community mass-flagged you. Email the mods for further guidance if you find this outcome objectionable; they’re more adept at offering counsel on how to participate at HN as a community contributor rather than as a self-promoter.
10 months ago, you commented on your own post; then, 18 days ago, you linked your own work in a general Show HN post. Given your account age, extremely low karma, and total absence of comments on anyone else’s posts for ten months in between two self-links, one can reasonably consider your account to be ‘solely here for the marketing clicks’ which would lead users to flag your submissions at a higher rate than average, as you’ve discovered.
If you stop posting self-links for the next ten months and show steady participation in other people’s posts throughout that time — without referring to ‘my work/project/site’ in literally every single comment, as some have tried before you — then when you post a Show HN in ten months, users will likely not flag you for spamming us with ‘look at me! look at me! look at me’ posts (and if they do, you can reasonably ask the mods to inflag it, and they might do so!). But the fly-by-night forum spam your account history reveals is so passé and you’ve only made yourself less welcome here by insisting that you haven’t broken any rules, rather than adapting to the ongoing participation behaviors expected of submitters.
Either genuinely invest time and energy into this community or move on.
Re: The open source DOCX editor submitted to HN a few weeks ago has been deleted
#58Earlier quoted context omitted.
I went looking around, but I couldn't find why you're making tinycld, and whether I could expect it to keep going as a project in the future. I expect I could find whether you're using hardened server implementations or reimplementing, but if it's the former, you should advertise that, or if the latter, you shouldn't.
It's pretty simple: I have a small company and we're using it internally. my hope by releasing it is that the ecosystem will grow and it'll become the best way to publish web apps (ambitious I know). I do not know what you expect by "hardened server implementations", it's open-source and people will probably host it a lot of different ways? If you're talking about the various services it offers like imap/webdav, I'm…
Thanks, I think you should put that up if it isn't, or at least link from About page if it is.
"If you're talking about the various services it offers like imap/webdav, I'm using well established golang libraries"
That's exactly what I'd hope to see said somewhere as a naive person. Maybe security people would say "that's only 50% of the attack surface!!!" but I'm not one so it sounds good to me.
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#60Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's pretty simple: I have a small company and we're using it internally. my hope by releasing it is that the ecosystem will grow and it'll become the best way to publish web apps (ambitious I know). I do not know what you expect by "hardened server implementations", it's open-source and people will probably host it a lot of different ways? If you're talking about the various services it offers like imap/webdav, I'm…
Thanks, I think you should put that up if it isn't, or at least link from About page if it is. "If you're talking about the various services it offers like imap/webdav, I'm using well established golang libraries" That's exactly what I'd hope to see said somewhere as a naive person. Maybe security people would say "that's only 50% of the attack surface!!!" but I'm not one so it sounds good to me.
Great feedback, that makes complete sense. I've just added https://tinycld.org/story which expounds on this a bit more and also links to the credits page that lists all the (many) libraries it uses.