Etherpad, resurrected: typewith.me

by d4ft • 16 years ago

57 13 16 years ago

ambiate2• 16 years ago

Could you save the list of users + colors? So, if John disconnects, I can check with the document and see that green were revisions John made. I know if John typed in the chat I could associate his color/name. Maybe highlighting colored text or mouseovering colored text would show the revisioner's name!

Otherwise, smooth and no complaints. Maybe custom urls? Then again I'm just lazy and could tinyurl for customizing.

Possibly an IRC like interface (with privs for writing) or read-only urls and read-write urls!

jackowayed2• 16 years ago

This is just Etherpad (see http://etherpad.com). They're just hosting it since Etherpad's shutting down soon.

Also, there are custom urls. Just go to http://typewith.me/foo and if that's not a pad it'll let you create one.

ambiate2• 16 years ago

Ah wasn't paying attention to the title. Its my first time seeing something like this.

thinker• 16 years ago

There's also http://ietherpad.com and http://piratepad.net

delano• 16 years ago

Etherpad is also integrated into http://talkerapp.com/

thiele• 16 years ago

Is there a straight forward way to self host your own Etherpad?

bugs• 16 years ago

This was posted a while ago http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1013563 I don't know how helpful it is though.

zitterbewegung• 16 years ago

See etherpad.org too which seems to be maintaining the project.

mziulu• 16 years ago

Does anybody know if there is an Etherpad-like service that allows to draw charts/tables/`free style' stuff? I was thinking that that might be useful during brainstorming sessions to help crystallize ideas...

sjs382• 16 years ago

woobius eye?

http://www.woobius.com/scribbles/posts/0021-woobius-eye-beta...

paulbaumgart• 16 years ago

http://dabbleboard.com/

tomkinstinch• 16 years ago

As someone who has been using Gobby for real-time collaborative coding recently, Etherpad is appealing because it is amazingly temping to link Etherpad with SVN. Imagine being able to have each author's changes automatically checked in to a repository on save.

One of the most limiting factors of Gobby is that access control is virtually non-existent, and it has no integration with any sort of version control. Hooks and scripts are required to hack up source control systems.

It seems like a startup would do quite well to create a service combining Etherpad and SVN (or another flavor of version control).

All that said, Gobby is a pretty fun solution for private collaborative editing. Watching colleagues fix your mistakes in real time (and doing it for them) never gets old.

[1] http://gobby.0x539.de/trac/

Etherpad, resurrected: typewith.me

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