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Those are great insights. Have you found any online collaborative whiteboard tool that does what you want here? It is so frustrating compared to native apps wh

Those are great insights. Have you found any online collaborative whiteboard tool that does what you want here? It is so frustrating compared to native apps where low latency, pressure sensitivity, and the pen eraser are table stakes.

chrismorgan 6y ago
Sorry, I haven’t ever gone looking.
Hoasi 6y ago
Mr.doob's multiuser sketchpad has the essentials as far as real-time sharing and drawing capacity. It would work very well in private mode: you could share a link to start recording a live session. https://multiuser-sketchpad.glitch.me https://multiuser-sketchpad.glitch.me https://mrdoob.com/#/125/multiuser_sketchpad https://mrdoob.com/#/125/multiuser_sketchpad
- chrismorgan 6y ago
  As soon as I put my pen to the surface and made a big sweeping movement, it popped up five or ten alerts in a row, all reading “please, draw slowly”, and broke (the socket disconnected and stayed disconnected). Um. When I drew things small, this didn’t happen, but it was as badly broken as Browserboard in that it wasn’t registering the first (and maybe last?) short time of each stroke, which makes it completely useless for writing. So, total failure of #1, and #2 and #3 seem inapplicable by design so I can’t judge them. But I’m not in the slightest bit impressed with this, functionally.
  - bonestamp2 6y ago
    What is the best one you've come across?
    - chrismorgan 6y ago
      No idea. I’ve never needed a collaborative whiteboard, and for non-collaborative use I haven’t found anything on the web anywhere near as good as the desktop options of Microsoft Whiteboard and Krita (though Krita has a definite learning curve), so on the odd occasions I want to share things with others I just do screen sharing of these. I started making one of my own a few years back and had the basic interactions down pat, but shelved that project before it ever got really good or could have supported collaboration. Mine was also bitmap-based rather than vector-based, which is a significant difference in approach in some regards, losing you some functionality but gaining you a lot of speed.
numpad0 6y ago
More of an input for developers than actual suggestion but collaborative art boards like MagicalDraw[1] aren't new among digital artists and they're quite robust 1: https://draw.kuku.lu/index.php https://draw.kuku.lu/index.php
- chrismorgan 6y ago
  > This is a non-supported browser. > Your browser is not compatible with this site. Please try accessing the site from your Chrome browser. That’s a new type of hard fail. That’s the first time I’ve had Firefox be rejected.
  - numpad0 6y ago
    I... think back then(tm) those web apps used to run as Java Applet or Flash, then switched to HTML5 when those were obsoleted and while Firefox was still struggling to modernize.

chrismorgan 6y ago

Sorry, I haven’t ever gone looking.

Hoasi 6y ago

Mr.doob's multiuser sketchpad has the essentials as far as real-time sharing and drawing capacity. It would work very well in private mode: you could share a link to start recording a live session. https://multiuser-sketchpad.glitch.me https://multiuser-sketchpad.glitch.me https://mrdoob.com/#/125/multiuser_sketchpad https://mrdoob.com/#/125/multiuser_sketchpad

chrismorgan 6y ago
As soon as I put my pen to the surface and made a big sweeping movement, it popped up five or ten alerts in a row, all reading “please, draw slowly”, and broke (the socket disconnected and stayed disconnected). Um. When I drew things small, this didn’t happen, but it was as badly broken as Browserboard in that it wasn’t registering the first (and maybe last?) short time of each stroke, which makes it completely useless for writing. So, total failure of #1, and #2 and #3 seem inapplicable by design so I can’t judge them. But I’m not in the slightest bit impressed with this, functionally.
- bonestamp2 6y ago
  What is the best one you've come across?
  - chrismorgan 6y ago
    No idea. I’ve never needed a collaborative whiteboard, and for non-collaborative use I haven’t found anything on the web anywhere near as good as the desktop options of Microsoft Whiteboard and Krita (though Krita has a definite learning curve), so on the odd occasions I want to share things with others I just do screen sharing of these. I started making one of my own a few years back and had the basic interactions down pat, but shelved that project before it ever got really good or could have supported collaboration. Mine was also bitmap-based rather than vector-based, which is a significant difference in approach in some regards, losing you some functionality but gaining you a lot of speed.

numpad0 6y ago

More of an input for developers than actual suggestion but collaborative art boards like MagicalDraw[1] aren't new among digital artists and they're quite robust 1: https://draw.kuku.lu/index.php https://draw.kuku.lu/index.php

chrismorgan 6y ago
> This is a non-supported browser. > Your browser is not compatible with this site. Please try accessing the site from your Chrome browser. That’s a new type of hard fail. That’s the first time I’ve had Firefox be rejected.
- numpad0 6y ago
  I... think back then(tm) those web apps used to run as Java Applet or Flash, then switched to HTML5 when those were obsoleted and while Firefox was still struggling to modernize.