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Re: Show HN: HackPad is the best wiki ever

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Post by heyitsnick »

orph wrote: post #43
damncabbage wrote: post #29

Quick note: read-only mode isn't very read-only. Pasting and typing quickly still works. I clicked a checkbox within the page copy, and the entire page suddenly blanked. (It may have just been a coincidence, though.) Otherwise, looks great. :)

This is probably an IE bug?

I can do this in Chrome windows. I can check a checkbox or type a few letters; I get a popup saying "sign in to make edits", but my changes still happened. I can dismiss the popup and again type in a few more letters before the blocking popup.

Re: Show HN: HackPad is the best wiki ever

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Post by StavrosK »

mintplant wrote: post #40
StavrosK wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 passwo…

BrowserID looks interesting, but what about on public terminals? The average user may not understand that they're logged in to your site and BrowserID, and as such would leave themselves mistakenly logged in. See the BrowserID demo site - http://myfavoritebeer.org/ - as an example of this. Once you're logged in, the "logout" button does not truly mean logout - anyone could log you back in in two clicks.

That's a good point, they need a "public terminal" option at browserid.org. I'll email them now.

However, considering that it's pretty easy to add two-factor authentication to the provider (in this case, browserid.org) using Google's open source libraries or any other way, I'd say this is a huge net plus. After all, logging in via Google, Facebook, Twitter or any other such provider has the same weakness.

Re: Show HN: HackPad is the best wiki ever

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Post by WA »

orph wrote: post #69
WA wrote: post #67

It's nice. But how do I delete my account and my Google contacts that were imported in your database?

We don't store Google contacts on disk, so they will disappear with a couple days of account inactivity.

Okay thanks. Still, can I somehow delete my account?

Re: Show HN: HackPad is the best wiki ever

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Post by beza1e1 »

tathagatadg wrote: post #47

Is it possible to embed a hackpad in a site? I really looked around for an embed-able etherpad that can be easily made available into pages for users to collaboratively note down stuff ...

You could use any Etherpad Lite site [0]. Probably also works with the "heavy" Etherpad.

[0] https://github.com/Pita/etherpad-lite/wiki/Sites-that-run-Et...

Re: Show HN: HackPad is the best wiki ever

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Post by wmat »

This is an interesting project, however, as someone who administers several wikis, both public and private I honestly wouldn't give up control of the server side to the cloud ever. The simple reason is data control. I want daily backups of my wiki data. Can I do that with this?

Similarly, where's the source?

Where's the install for private wikis, such as a company's private internal wiki?

Where's the api so I can write plugins?

Where are the plugins?

What is preventing wiki spammers?

Can I theme this for groups?

I see that groups are 'private' based on my invitations to them, but how can I be sure this isn't easily compromised?

Anyway, this looks interesting, but I don't think it can be used yet for any serious wiki work.

Re: Show HN: HackPad is the best wiki ever

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Post by vidarh »

modoc wrote: post #46
X-Istence wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

JIRA is the bug tracking software. Atlassian is the company. JIRA is absolutely terrible as well. I can't express in words how much I hate and dislike JIRA, it's horribly slow and bloated user interface and how complicated it makes certain tasks... using it as an Agile tool makes it even worse especially with Greenhopper the add-on.

Lots of people here seem to dislike Confluence and Jira. What do you folks prefer? Having used Bugzilla, Trac, Mantis, MediaWiki, and several other tools I 100% prefer Jira and Confluence...

I'd pick any one of those over Jira and Confluence any day.

I tend to use Trac most.

Re: Show HN: HackPad is the best wiki ever

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Post by [deleted] »

skrebbel wrote: post #70
kofman wrote: post #63

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Some of hackpad's features are: task-lists, inline linking and page creation, simple image embedding, search, deep email integration, dropbox integration, mobile (iphone,android) support, an osx launcher/search app. The way hackpad handles basic editing and authorship annotation has also received a lot of attention and iteration. Play with it and let us know what you think!

Hm, given that Hackpad is based on Etherpad, wouldn't some credits be due?

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