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Could you also give feedback on https://wbo.ophir.dev https://wbo.ophir.dev ? Contrarily to the other mentioned before, it is opensource [1], and you can easil

Could you also give feedback on https://wbo.ophir.dev https://wbo.ophir.dev ? Contrarily to the other mentioned before, it is opensource [1], and you can easily host your own instance if you don't like the idea of sharing your whiteboards on a random server on the internet. [1] https://github.com/lovasoa/whitebophir https://github.com/lovasoa/whitebophir

hakre 6y ago
Thanks for commenting, this one worked for me.
TeMPOraL 6y ago
Not GP. Tested on my Dell Latitude 5290 2-in-1 (AKA. my sidearm), with Dell's active pen, running Firefox. Works very well with the pen indeed. I love this, and the fact that it's self-hostable only makes it better. Also, props for deferring to the system color picker!
librarydance 6y ago
Awesomely responsive, great sharing model, very easy to use. Drawbacks I saw (for my own use patterns): - Not great for use with a pencil-based tablet: pencil vs. hand or other pointer are not distinguished. I don't want my finger to draw, I want only my pencil to draw. - Couldn't find how to permanently set a different size for pencil vs. eraser. I want a huge eraser (and a large eraser didn't work too well, independently of this comment) but a thin point pencil. - No "erase region" or "clear page" functionality. All of the above may look independent, but in fact are highly inter-related. If I wasn't constantly smudging the screen with my fingers being confused for pencils, I wouldn't need an eraser that much. If the large eraser worked well (and I didn't need to reset the size every time I switch from pencil to eraser) I wouldn't need the "clear board" functionality.
- lovasoa 6y ago
  The clear page functionality has been asked before, but I'm not sure I want to implement it. It seems useful when you are alone on your board, but when there are dozens of participants, you don't want a single one to be able to clear everything in a single button press, be it by mistake or maliciously.
  - Multicomp 6y ago
    Maybe add a confirmation dialog and clear the page while showing a message as to who cleared it? If you already have an undo system then you could push the pre-cleared state to it as well. it's easy to make armchair feature request suggestions when I haven't even so much just looked at the code, so I will end by saying good work on having a tool that people actually use!
    - microtherion 6y ago
      Maybe require a quorum on the confirmation dialog? Less than 5 participants on the board - single confirmation. Less than 20 — 2 need to agree to erase. etc.
ChrisMarshallNY 6y ago
> https://wbo.ophir.dev https://wbo.ophir.dev Good show! It's impossible to get something exactly like Apple Pencil/iPad Pro, in a shared Web-based tool, but this comes close.
agys 6y ago
This one is excellent! Thank you for sharing it.
chris_st 6y ago
This worked great with my iPad Pro and Apple Pencil. Well done!
contravariant 6y ago
I like that you can easily share a private board between people, unfortunately it didn't seem to work well with my mouse. Something about the postprocessing messed up every single line I was trying to draw, which made it impossible to write anything legible. Edit: it's quite a bit better in chrome, but still not perfect.
theicfire 6y ago
Woo this is my new favorite whiteboarding tool! I love how I don't have to log in and that it works with my ipad pencil

hakre 6y ago

Thanks for commenting, this one worked for me.

TeMPOraL 6y ago

Not GP. Tested on my Dell Latitude 5290 2-in-1 (AKA. my sidearm), with Dell's active pen, running Firefox. Works very well with the pen indeed. I love this, and the fact that it's self-hostable only makes it better. Also, props for deferring to the system color picker!

librarydance 6y ago

Awesomely responsive, great sharing model, very easy to use. Drawbacks I saw (for my own use patterns): - Not great for use with a pencil-based tablet: pencil vs. hand or other pointer are not distinguished. I don't want my finger to draw, I want only my pencil to draw. - Couldn't find how to permanently set a different size for pencil vs. eraser. I want a huge eraser (and a large eraser didn't work too well, independently of this comment) but a thin point pencil. - No "erase region" or "clear page" functionality. All of the above may look independent, but in fact are highly inter-related. If I wasn't constantly smudging the screen with my fingers being confused for pencils, I wouldn't need an eraser that much. If the large eraser worked well (and I didn't need to reset the size every time I switch from pencil to eraser) I wouldn't need the "clear board" functionality.

lovasoa 6y ago
The clear page functionality has been asked before, but I'm not sure I want to implement it. It seems useful when you are alone on your board, but when there are dozens of participants, you don't want a single one to be able to clear everything in a single button press, be it by mistake or maliciously.
- Multicomp 6y ago
  Maybe add a confirmation dialog and clear the page while showing a message as to who cleared it? If you already have an undo system then you could push the pre-cleared state to it as well. it's easy to make armchair feature request suggestions when I haven't even so much just looked at the code, so I will end by saying good work on having a tool that people actually use!
  - microtherion 6y ago
    Maybe require a quorum on the confirmation dialog? Less than 5 participants on the board - single confirmation. Less than 20 — 2 need to agree to erase. etc.

ChrisMarshallNY 6y ago

> https://wbo.ophir.dev https://wbo.ophir.dev Good show! It's impossible to get something exactly like Apple Pencil/iPad Pro, in a shared Web-based tool, but this comes close.

agys 6y ago

This one is excellent! Thank you for sharing it.

chris_st 6y ago

This worked great with my iPad Pro and Apple Pencil. Well done!

contravariant 6y ago

I like that you can easily share a private board between people, unfortunately it didn't seem to work well with my mouse. Something about the postprocessing messed up every single line I was trying to draw, which made it impossible to write anything legible. Edit: it's quite a bit better in chrome, but still not perfect.

theicfire 6y ago

Woo this is my new favorite whiteboarding tool! I love how I don't have to log in and that it works with my ipad pencil