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There are dozens of stock etherpad instances that don't require a login that you can use. Unfortunately, they aren't doing anything interesting. Would you log

by orph 16y ago

There are dozens of stock etherpad instances that don't require a login that you can use. Unfortunately, they aren't doing anything interesting. Would you login using a Gmail account? A Twitter account?

DTrejo 16y ago
The facebook integration is worth 0 to me. I want to collaborate on text, not accidentally click my avatar and be taken to my profile page. I think the facebook integration is a waste of your development time. If you keep it, keep it only for the easy population of pic+email+username. Also, get rid of login if the pad is truly open to everyone. I'll keep using one of those other etherpad instances, since there's not much facebook integration gives me over a stock instance. Apologies if I was a bit harsh.
100tonmantis 16y ago
Why can't the login be optional?
1337p337 16y ago
Speaking as just one guy, "log in with $service" is a bigger pain than "Sign up and log in". Sometimes I don't have $service, or I have it but don't like using it, or I have it but I don't want whatever new random thing I'm trying out to have hooks into it. (Anyone else seen in their Twitter feed a bunch of app noise followed by an apology?) I dropped GMail about a year and a half ago. If any services I was using required it to log in, I would have had to drop them, too. I think it's mostly because I know a lot of programmers, but I do know a large number of Facebook "conscientious objectors" (myself included) who can't log in to things that require Facebook. It's really nice to have services like this self-contained (as long as it makes sense; Twitpic, for example, would be less useful if it had no hooks into Twitter). I can pick the service up and if I don't like it, put it back down. And if I drop some account elsewhere or just change accounts, nothing depends on me having it to log in.
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mquander 16y ago
Just putting myself on the list as yet another person who would be trying this out right now, but it requires a Facebook login, so I'm writing this comment instead. I don't use Facebook or Twitter, and I would not be pleased with creating a permanent link between my Google account, which is important to me, to some little application that I may forget about quickly.
barrkel 16y ago
I'd consider an OpenID login; I already have one on myopenid.com for Stack Overflow. But I don't like the idea of logging in to a service with any kind of identifiable "persona" where I don't have strong control over the connection. I don't trust Facebook, my Google account is too important to pollute it with random site logins, while I'm afraid a Twitter login would somehow end up giving permission to Twitter DM me, which I don't want.
alextgordon 16y ago
Unfortunately, they aren't doing anything interesting. With all respect, hackpad has a fraction of the features of the other etherpad forks (including the original etherpad). That's not necessarily a bad thing, but nor does it give me a reason to use it over say piratepad.
- orph 16y ago
  You mean other than piratepad being an unstable hacker playground?

by orph 16y ago

DTrejo 16y ago

The facebook integration is worth 0 to me. I want to collaborate on text, not accidentally click my avatar and be taken to my profile page. I think the facebook integration is a waste of your development time. If you keep it, keep it only for the easy population of pic+email+username. Also, get rid of login if the pad is truly open to everyone. I'll keep using one of those other etherpad instances, since there's not much facebook integration gives me over a stock instance. Apologies if I was a bit harsh.

100tonmantis 16y ago

Why can't the login be optional?

1337p337 16y ago

Speaking as just one guy, "log in with $service" is a bigger pain than "Sign up and log in". Sometimes I don't have $service, or I have it but don't like using it, or I have it but I don't want whatever new random thing I'm trying out to have hooks into it. (Anyone else seen in their Twitter feed a bunch of app noise followed by an apology?) I dropped GMail about a year and a half ago. If any services I was using required it to log in, I would have had to drop them, too. I think it's mostly because I know a lot of programmers, but I do know a large number of Facebook "conscientious objectors" (myself included) who can't log in to things that require Facebook. It's really nice to have services like this self-contained (as long as it makes sense; Twitpic, for example, would be less useful if it had no hooks into Twitter). I can pick the service up and if I don't like it, put it back down. And if I drop some account elsewhere or just change accounts, nothing depends on me having it to log in.

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mquander 16y ago

Just putting myself on the list as yet another person who would be trying this out right now, but it requires a Facebook login, so I'm writing this comment instead. I don't use Facebook or Twitter, and I would not be pleased with creating a permanent link between my Google account, which is important to me, to some little application that I may forget about quickly.

barrkel 16y ago

I'd consider an OpenID login; I already have one on myopenid.com for Stack Overflow. But I don't like the idea of logging in to a service with any kind of identifiable "persona" where I don't have strong control over the connection. I don't trust Facebook, my Google account is too important to pollute it with random site logins, while I'm afraid a Twitter login would somehow end up giving permission to Twitter DM me, which I don't want.

alextgordon 16y ago

Unfortunately, they aren't doing anything interesting. With all respect, hackpad has a fraction of the features of the other etherpad forks (including the original etherpad). That's not necessarily a bad thing, but nor does it give me a reason to use it over say piratepad.

orph 16y ago
You mean other than piratepad being an unstable hacker playground?