Hackpad source code

by z1mm32m4n • 11 years ago

265 49 11 years ago

Numberwang• 11 years ago

Nice of them to put it there. Two points.

1. My confidence in the continued existence of Hackpad is falling by the day and it saddens me as it is where I keep all my stuff.

2. I really would like to get access to the Dropbox Notes beta to see if it is a direct continuation of Hackpad. Seems it is almost impossible to get access to it though.

1337ha9• 11 years ago

write into hackpad support! someone will let you in :)

RickS• 11 years ago

DB Notes is clearly a spiritual continuation, and some things are directly continued (fonts, limited styling, minimal composition area), but it's also got features that are distinct from the original HackPad, like sidebar comment threads (somewhat like Medium's comments).

It definitely shares a lot, but it's not just "hackpad with the dropbox logo"

pbiggar• 11 years ago

Sidebar comment threads is a really good move. I have many hackpads destroyed by inline comments.

brad0• 11 years ago

The App Store link no longer works (US store). I'm guessing this is the beginning of the end.

z1mm32m4n2• 11 years ago

Notes has a Hackpad importer that lets teams migrate their pads into Dropbox Notes, so you don't have to worry about losing a place where you can lee your Notes.

sixbit• 11 years ago

The Hackpad import on DB Notes works really well and they have an option to redirect all your old Hackpad urls to the newly imported notes, which is pretty nice. The only catch with Notes so far is there is no way to back them up / export them from the DB Notes interface.

the_mitsuhiko• 11 years ago

Notes is really good. It just saddens me that Dropbox does not base those systems on top of Dropbox but somewhere separately. I wish I could just get .md files or something similar in my Dropbox from what's on notes.

blacksmith_tb• 11 years ago

What about using something like Notational Velocity / nvAlt (which will keep your notes on Dropbox, and has mobile clients available too)?

dynjo• 11 years ago

Check out https://slimwiki.com

techsupporter• 11 years ago

I really wish that, someday, I could click on a cool link on Hacker News for a service that's personal document storage and syncing and, near the bottom of the page, would read the text "host this on your own server using [these instructions]."

houshuang• 11 years ago

Wonder if there are any improvements here that could be pulled back into the open source Etherpad-light?

JJN3• 11 years ago

I want to turn this into a mac app. Was not expecting java.

toomuchtodo• 11 years ago

So Dockerize it and have the data backed up to an S3 bucket. Then you'd just docker pull, start the container, and surf to it locally.

JJN3• 11 years ago

Ya, i'll definitely be exploring. I always loved hackpad, but didn't use as much as I would if it was a native note taking app (like JustNotes which I use)

rhelmer• 11 years ago

Looks like there's an OSX client in https://github.com/dropbox/hackpad/tree/master/client/osx

JJN3• 11 years ago

Cool, thanks!

neilk• 11 years ago

HackPad is a fork of EtherPad, which was all JavaScript on Java! It uses the Rhino JavaScript engine. Believe it or not.

mshenfield2• 11 years ago

There's a good thread on Hackpad's waaaay premature announcement that they were open sourcing their code on the original hackpad/hackpad repo: https://github.com/hackpad/hackpad/issues/1. Wonder what the story is and why the actual release was so delayed.

EDIT: Spelling and grammar

ninetax2• 11 years ago

Was there ever any explanation for the delay?

workerbee07• 11 years ago

They fired the guy who made them open source and held the release until their Notes product was ready.

ninetax2• 11 years ago

Interesting, where did you hear that?

mshenfield2• 11 years ago

Couldn't find anything official to verify that, or any previous comments on Hacker News / Github mentioning someone being fired. Could you provide some supporting information?

logicallee2• 11 years ago

like the other respondents I'd just really appreciate if you at least casually attributed what you've stated to where you heard it, e.g. "heard from someone who worked there" or just heard from whoever. I believe you, since you made an account for this comment, as far as your attribution remember you're anonymous here, it's not going to get back to you.

Throwaway4alex• 11 years ago

I can only confirm this via a throwaway for lots of reasons, but this is correct.

Note: I am not Alex.

eximius• 11 years ago

Signing in with Google requests to view your contacts. Come on, really?

CamperBob2• 11 years ago

Hmm. Not only do they make unnecessary, irrelevant, and generally overreaching demands on your privacy, but you get modded down for objecting to it. Sounds like a great product. Where do I sign up?

Absolutely nothing makes me reach for the back button faster than a "X requests access to Y" notification that doesn't explain exactly why X needs access to Y, and what X will do with its newly-granted access.

bmir-alum-0072• 11 years ago

For ephemeral collaboration, just use an semi-anonymous EtherPad fork like PiratePad.

http://piratepad.net/

anifow2• 11 years ago

This was open-sourced a while back. Looks like they hollowed out the repo though. Is that bad etiquette?

https://github.com/hackpad/hackpad

z1mm32m4n2• 11 years ago

That repo never had code in it.

anifow2• 11 years ago

That's what it looks like

detaro• 11 years ago

No, it wasn't, it was only announced and then took until now to be actually released (see the issue in the repo you linked)

bmir-alum-0072• 11 years ago

Another cool, live EtherPad fork which has existed for a long time (anonymous pads, w/o source): http://piratepad.net/front-page/

bshanks• 11 years ago

another one is http://meetingwords.com/

Omnipresent• 11 years ago

clicking "Take a test drive" link on hackpad main site results in "Refused to execute inline event handler because it violates the following Content Security Policy directive: "script-src 'self' 'unsafe-inline' " in Chrome

ilaksh• 11 years ago

Interesting still based on the original Etherpad rather than Etherpad-lite which is actually based on Node.js and works much better.

Etherpad-lite has a lot of interesting plugins.

acpmasquerade• 11 years ago

Hackpad is wonderful. We use it as a quick tool to discuss our ideas. It's more readable, gives a proper track of changes, and is effective. Having known that it has gone open source makes feel even better.

However, didn't Dropbox bought Hackpad earlier ?

oever2• 11 years ago

Similar projects exist that use OpenDocument Format as the underlying file format.

https://github.com/adityab/Manticore https://github.com/kogmbh/kotype

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