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This went into "maintenance mode" in 2018, has anything changed? https://blog.helftone.com/monodraw-maintenance-mode/ https://blog.helftone.com/monodraw-mainten

This went into "maintenance mode" in 2018, has anything changed? https://blog.helftone.com/monodraw-maintenance-mode/ https://blog.helftone.com/monodraw-maintenance-mode/

marcusjt 3y ago
https://x.com/Monodraw https://x.com/Monodraw suggests there have indeed been updates
- graypegg 3y ago
  To be fair, the last tweet is from 2 years ago. However, I’ve made pretty good use of it, and it’s really a “complete” product. Not much more to update than the occasional mandatory platform upgrade.
airstrike 3y ago
From the FAQ at the bottom > Why not open source the app? > > Maintaining an open-source project can be a significant amount of work and I'm not going to have the time to take on such responsibilities. Furthermore, open-sourcing full products tends to result in many clones being sold directly to unsuspecting customers which is not something I want to enable. It's strange how both of those statements are incorrect... open-sourcing a project allows for contributors to pick up some of the workload and certain licenses would prevent clones from being sold to unsuspecting customers
- arccy 3y ago
  a license doesn't magically stop bad things from happening.
  - airstrike 3y ago
    it doesn't, but it's a deterrent. the very fact that this app had limited commercial success is reason to believe there likely won't be "many clones", especially if they're forced to go against the license
- thenanyu 3y ago
  As someone who has worked on an open source product with a commercial version, the FAQ matches my experience. I think you're letting you're mixing up is and ought.
- dorian-graph 3y ago
  Contributors don't magically appear. Maintaining a community, reviewing changes, steering, etc. all take time and energy. Again, contributors don't magically appear who can do those things, who are aligned with the creator. Licenses don't magically stop bad actors. Both statements by the author are correct.
milen 3y ago
Developer of Monodraw here. Thank you all for the kind words regarding the app. Unfortunately, my time is extremely limited which is why I haven’t had the chance to push more updates out. I’ve got a few highly requested features in the works but I cannot promise when they’ll see the light of day (I usually get to make progress during my holidays). I’m still committed to fixing any breakages due to OS upgrades and ensuring the product continues to work.
- hanniabu 3y ago
  Curious what some of the requested features are since it seems feature complete to me
  - milen 3y ago
    The main requests have been for: - Plaintext format (in progress) - Dark mode support for the main canvas (in progress) - Auto/Dynamic Layout - Table support - ANSI export
    - supertron 3y ago
      > Dark mode support Hell yeah! I'm a long time user of Monodraw (thanks for the awesome work!) and this would be an instant upgrade for me :)
    - marcellus23 3y ago
      What does "plaintext format" mean? Isn't it already plaintext?
      - jasonm23 3y ago
        to offer a guess, I assume plantext probably means plain ASCII or maybe extended US ASCII (adds IBM box drawing chars, etc.) As opposed to full unicode text charset.
    - berta 3y ago
      + 1 for table support

This went into "maintenance mode" in 2018, has anything changed? https://blog.helftone.com/monodraw-maintenance-mode/ https://blog.helftone.com/monodraw-maintenance-mode/

marcusjt 3y ago

https://x.com/Monodraw https://x.com/Monodraw suggests there have indeed been updates

graypegg 3y ago
To be fair, the last tweet is from 2 years ago. However, I’ve made pretty good use of it, and it’s really a “complete” product. Not much more to update than the occasional mandatory platform upgrade.

airstrike 3y ago

From the FAQ at the bottom > Why not open source the app? > > Maintaining an open-source project can be a significant amount of work and I'm not going to have the time to take on such responsibilities. Furthermore, open-sourcing full products tends to result in many clones being sold directly to unsuspecting customers which is not something I want to enable. It's strange how both of those statements are incorrect... open-sourcing a project allows for contributors to pick up some of the workload and certain licenses would prevent clones from being sold to unsuspecting customers

arccy 3y ago
a license doesn't magically stop bad things from happening.
- airstrike 3y ago
  it doesn't, but it's a deterrent. the very fact that this app had limited commercial success is reason to believe there likely won't be "many clones", especially if they're forced to go against the license
thenanyu 3y ago
As someone who has worked on an open source product with a commercial version, the FAQ matches my experience. I think you're letting you're mixing up is and ought.
dorian-graph 3y ago
Contributors don't magically appear. Maintaining a community, reviewing changes, steering, etc. all take time and energy. Again, contributors don't magically appear who can do those things, who are aligned with the creator. Licenses don't magically stop bad actors. Both statements by the author are correct.

milen 3y ago

Developer of Monodraw here. Thank you all for the kind words regarding the app. Unfortunately, my time is extremely limited which is why I haven’t had the chance to push more updates out. I’ve got a few highly requested features in the works but I cannot promise when they’ll see the light of day (I usually get to make progress during my holidays). I’m still committed to fixing any breakages due to OS upgrades and ensuring the product continues to work.

hanniabu 3y ago
Curious what some of the requested features are since it seems feature complete to me
- milen 3y ago
  The main requests have been for: - Plaintext format (in progress) - Dark mode support for the main canvas (in progress) - Auto/Dynamic Layout - Table support - ANSI export
  - supertron 3y ago
    > Dark mode support Hell yeah! I'm a long time user of Monodraw (thanks for the awesome work!) and this would be an instant upgrade for me :)
  - marcellus23 3y ago
    What does "plaintext format" mean? Isn't it already plaintext?
    - jasonm23 3y ago
      to offer a guess, I assume plantext probably means plain ASCII or maybe extended US ASCII (adds IBM box drawing chars, etc.) As opposed to full unicode text charset.
  - berta 3y ago
    + 1 for table support