Hackpad source code

[mshenfield]

There's a good thread on Hackpad's waaaay premature announcement that they were open sourcing their code on the original hackpad/hackpad repo: https://github.com/hackpad/hackpad/issues/1. Wonder what the story is and why the actual release was so delayed.

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[workerbee07]

They fired the guy who made them open source and held the release until their Notes product was ready.

[ninetax]

Was there ever any explanation for the delay?

[Numberwang]

Nice of them to put it there. Two points.

1. My confidence in the continued existence of Hackpad is falling by the day and it saddens me as it is where I keep all my stuff.

2. I really would like to get access to the Dropbox Notes beta to see if it is a direct continuation of Hackpad. Seems it is almost impossible to get access to it though.

[the_mitsuhiko]

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.

[RickS]

DB Notes is clearly a spiritual continuation, and some things are directly continued (fonts, limited styling, minimal composition area), but it's also got features that are distinct from the original HackPad, like sidebar comment threads (somewhat like Medium's comments).

It definitely shares a lot, but it's not just "hackpad with the dropbox logo"

[z1mm32m4n]

Notes has a Hackpad importer that lets teams migrate their pads into Dropbox Notes, so you don't have to worry about losing a place where you can lee your Notes.

[sixbit]

The Hackpad import on DB Notes works really well and they have an option to redirect all your old Hackpad urls to the newly imported notes, which is pretty nice. The only catch with Notes so far is there is no way to back them up / export them from the DB Notes interface.

[1337ha9]

write into hackpad support! someone will let you in :)

[dynjo]

Check out https://slimwiki.com

[brad0]

The App Store link no longer works (US store). I'm guessing this is the beginning of the end.

[eximius]

Signing in with Google requests to view your contacts. Come on, really?

[CamperBob2]

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.

[oever]

Similar projects exist that use OpenDocument Format as the underlying file format.

https://github.com/adityab/Manticore https://github.com/kogmbh/kotype

[bmir-alum-007]

Another cool, live EtherPad fork which has existed for a long time (anonymous pads, w/o source): http://piratepad.net/front-page/

[bshanks]

another one is http://meetingwords.com/

[houshuang]

Wonder if there are any improvements here that could be pulled back into the open source Etherpad-light?

[acpmasquerade]

Hackpad 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 ?

[Omnipresent]

clicking "Take a test drive" link on hackpad main site results in "Refused to execute inline event handler because it violates the following Content Security Policy directive: "script-src 'self' 'unsafe-inline' " in Chrome

[ilaksh]

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.

[anifow]

This was open-sourced a while back. Looks like they hollowed out the repo though. Is that bad etiquette?

https://github.com/hackpad/hackpad

[detaro]

No, it wasn't, it was only announced and then took until now to be actually released (see the issue in the repo you linked)

[z1mm32m4n]

That repo never had code in it.

[JJN]

I want to turn this into a mac app. Was not expecting java.

[neilk]

HackPad is a fork of EtherPad, which was all JavaScript on Java! It uses the Rhino JavaScript engine. Believe it or not.

[toomuchtodo]

So Dockerize it and have the data backed up to an S3 bucket. Then you'd just docker pull, start the container, and surf to it locally.

[rhelmer]

Looks like there's an OSX client in https://github.com/dropbox/hackpad/tree/master/client/osx