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Etherpad, resurrected: typewith.me

57 points by d4ft 17y ago

ambiate 17y ago
Could you save the list of users + colors? So, if John disconnects, I can check with the document and see that green were revisions John made. I know if John typed in the chat I could associate his color/name. Maybe highlighting colored text or mouseovering colored text would show the revisioner's name! Otherwise, smooth and no complaints. Maybe custom urls? Then again I'm just lazy and could tinyurl for customizing. Possibly an IRC like interface (with privs for writing) or read-only urls and read-write urls!
- jackowayed 17y ago
  This is just Etherpad (see http://etherpad.com http://etherpad.com). They're just hosting it since Etherpad's shutting down soon. Also, there are custom urls. Just go to http://typewith.me/foo http://typewith.me/foo and if that's not a pad it'll let you create one.
  - ambiate 17y ago
    Ah wasn't paying attention to the title. Its my first time seeing something like this.
    - jackowayed 17y ago
      It's really nice. You don't really get the experience until you and someone else work on a pad simultaneously. (You can simulate it by opening the same pad on 2 computers/browsers, setting yourself up so you can see both at once, and typing in one to see just how fast it updates.)
thinker 17y ago
There's also http://ietherpad.com http://ietherpad.com and http://piratepad.net http://piratepad.net
- delano 17y ago
  Etherpad is also integrated into http://talkerapp.com/ http://talkerapp.com/
thiele 17y ago
Is there a straight forward way to self host your own Etherpad?
- bugs 17y ago
  This was posted a while ago http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1013563 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1013563 I don't know how helpful it is though.
zitterbewegung 17y ago
See etherpad.org too which seems to be maintaining the project.
mziulu 17y ago
Does anybody know if there is an Etherpad-like service that allows to draw charts/tables/`free style' stuff? I was thinking that that might be useful during brainstorming sessions to help crystallize ideas...
- sjs382 17y ago
  woobius eye? http://www.woobius.com/scribbles/posts/0021-woobius-eye-beta.html http://www.woobius.com/scribbles/posts/0021-woobius-eye-beta...
- paulbaumgart 17y ago
  http://dabbleboard.com/ http://dabbleboard.com/
tomkinstinch 17y ago
As someone who has been using Gobby for real-time collaborative coding recently, Etherpad is appealing because it is amazingly temping to link Etherpad with SVN. Imagine being able to have each author's changes automatically checked in to a repository on save. One of the most limiting factors of Gobby is that access control is virtually non-existent, and it has no integration with any sort of version control. Hooks and scripts are required to hack up source control systems. It seems like a startup would do quite well to create a service combining Etherpad and SVN (or another flavor of version control). All that said, Gobby is a pretty fun solution for private collaborative editing. Watching colleagues fix your mistakes in real time (and doing it for them) never gets old. [1] http://gobby.0x539.de/trac/ http://gobby.0x539.de/trac/

57 points by d4ft 17y ago

Could you save the list of users + colors? So, if John disconnects, I can check with the document and see that green were revisions John made. I know if John typed in the chat I could associate his color/name. Maybe highlighting colored text or mouseovering colored text would show the revisioner's name! Otherwise, smooth and no complaints. Maybe custom urls? Then again I'm just lazy and could tinyurl for customizing. Possibly an IRC like interface (with privs for writing) or read-only urls and read-write urls!

jackowayed 17y ago
This is just Etherpad (see http://etherpad.com http://etherpad.com). They're just hosting it since Etherpad's shutting down soon. Also, there are custom urls. Just go to http://typewith.me/foo http://typewith.me/foo and if that's not a pad it'll let you create one.
- ambiate 17y ago
  Ah wasn't paying attention to the title. Its my first time seeing something like this.
  - jackowayed 17y ago
    It's really nice. You don't really get the experience until you and someone else work on a pad simultaneously. (You can simulate it by opening the same pad on 2 computers/browsers, setting yourself up so you can see both at once, and typing in one to see just how fast it updates.)

thinker 17y ago

There's also http://ietherpad.com http://ietherpad.com and http://piratepad.net http://piratepad.net

delano 17y ago
Etherpad is also integrated into http://talkerapp.com/ http://talkerapp.com/

thiele 17y ago

Is there a straight forward way to self host your own Etherpad?

bugs 17y ago
This was posted a while ago http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1013563 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1013563 I don't know how helpful it is though.

zitterbewegung 17y ago

See etherpad.org too which seems to be maintaining the project.

mziulu 17y ago

Does anybody know if there is an Etherpad-like service that allows to draw charts/tables/`free style' stuff? I was thinking that that might be useful during brainstorming sessions to help crystallize ideas...

sjs382 17y ago
woobius eye? http://www.woobius.com/scribbles/posts/0021-woobius-eye-beta.html http://www.woobius.com/scribbles/posts/0021-woobius-eye-beta...
paulbaumgart 17y ago
http://dabbleboard.com/ http://dabbleboard.com/

tomkinstinch 17y ago

As someone who has been using Gobby for real-time collaborative coding recently, Etherpad is appealing because it is amazingly temping to link Etherpad with SVN. Imagine being able to have each author's changes automatically checked in to a repository on save. One of the most limiting factors of Gobby is that access control is virtually non-existent, and it has no integration with any sort of version control. Hooks and scripts are required to hack up source control systems. It seems like a startup would do quite well to create a service combining Etherpad and SVN (or another flavor of version control). All that said, Gobby is a pretty fun solution for private collaborative editing. Watching colleagues fix your mistakes in real time (and doing it for them) never gets old. [1] http://gobby.0x539.de/trac/ http://gobby.0x539.de/trac/