ORY Editor
Web and SaaS
page layout editor
SHOW HN2017
369points
98comments
#42of 2,242 in 2017
Top 2%of 2017 by points
How HN took it
MixedNo clear lean
8 positive, 19 neutral or asking, 1 mixed, 20 critical, out of 48 comments about the project. Thread score -0.30.
Idea: 3 for, 5 againstPerformance: 0 for, 6 againstDesign: 1 for, 3 againstExecution: 1 for, 3 againstDocs: 1 for, 1 against
The thread, comment by comment
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What HN said
What people liked
Looks great and works well; simple to use
From 2 comments
Looks pretty good and I didn't see performance issues. From a usability perspective it's simple to use. I would suggest a couple of usability improvements. 1. The right side…
palakchokshi on HNI like it because it looks complete and clean, however in safari for iPad the readme page in github already breaks and says the typical: "A problem has ocurred, so the page has…
nudpiedo on HN
Useful OAuth projects from the same company
From 2 comments
Ory makes some really cool stuff for OAuth / Authorization that we are considering using in our stack. https://github.com/ory/hydra https://github.com/ory/ladon…
kminehart on HNBuilt studiously.co website with this. Highly recommend the sites editor! Also using Hydra by the same author for OAuth2. Truly amazing work.
aniskywalker on HN
Objections
Resource heavy on CPU and memory
From 3 comments
The Chrome worker for the demo site accumulated about 600mb of ram. Is the editor really that heavy or is the demo page abnormally heavy?
Shank on HNI enjoyed messing around with it but, like others have noted, it seems to be resource intensive - both CPU and memory. My CPU fans kicked into turbo-jet mode after playing around…
iplaw on HNAlmost broken on mobile, and my iphone gets really hot...
hla19 on HN
Not accessible to screen readers
From 1 comment
This does not appear to work at all with my screen reader. Accessibility as afterthought, as always. I used to look forward to trying to help people fix their stuff to be…
ctoth on HN
AGPLv3 license is a barrier for commercial use
From 1 comment
Looks and works great, but there are 2 limitations I think would prevent it from using it in our stack: 1) It cannot be easily embedded, ie. as a field in a form. Apparently it's…
ojosilva on HN
Hard to embed in forms; full-screen oriented with many dependencies
From 2 comments
Looks and works great, but there are 2 limitations I think would prevent it from using it in our stack: 1) It cannot be easily embedded, ie. as a field in a form. Apparently it's…
ojosilva on HNI get the cutting edge part, but what has happened to the good old distributed, built, minified version? What if I just want to play with it, install it in a second and I don't…
kowdermeister on HN
Requests
Improve accessibility, such as image alt text
From 2 comments
Looks pretty good and I didn't see performance issues. From a usability perspective it's simple to use. I would suggest a couple of usability improvements. 1. The right side…
palakchokshi on HNThis does not appear to work at all with my screen reader. Accessibility as afterthought, as always. I used to look forward to trying to help people fix their stuff to be…
ctoth on HN
Improve mobile support
From 2 comments
Almost broken on mobile, and my iphone gets really hot...
hla19 on HNWhich iphone do you use? Also is it safari? It's currently absolutely not optimized for mobile, as most content creation happens on the desktop. We might though at some point.
jswizzard on HN
Provide a smaller built version instead of a large npm install
From 1 comment
I get the cutting edge part, but what has happened to the good old distributed, built, minified version? What if I just want to play with it, install it in a second and I don't…
kowdermeister on HN
Questions
How does it compare with Draft.js, Slate and ProseMirror?
From 2 comments
I'm curious, what does this offer over something like https://draftjs.org/, https://github.com/ianstormtaylor/slate, or http://prosemirror.net/ which also use normalized JSON (or…
qrohlf on HNIsn't a lot of the "Others don't do this" addressed by Prosemirror? http://prosemirror.net/
cocktailpeanuts on HN
How does performance hold up with very large documents?
From 1 comment
How performant is this? I don't have it on me right now, but if I were to dump a 400-kW document into the editor, would it still be snappy? That's one of the major weaknesses of…
Filligree on HN
Alternatives named
Draft.js
From 2 comments
I'm curious, what does this offer over something like https://draftjs.org/, https://github.com/ianstormtaylor/slate, or http://prosemirror.net/ which also use normalized JSON (or…
qrohlf on HNDemo here: http://editor.ory.am/ Looks similar to Draft (https://draftjs.org) at least in how they think about maintaining editable content outside of the DOM. Glad to see some…
timdorr on HN
ProseMirror
From 2 comments
I'm curious, what does this offer over something like https://draftjs.org/, https://github.com/ianstormtaylor/slate, or http://prosemirror.net/ which also use normalized JSON (or…
qrohlf on HNIsn't a lot of the "Others don't do this" addressed by Prosemirror? http://prosemirror.net/
cocktailpeanuts on HN
Slate
From 2 comments
I'm curious, what does this offer over something like https://draftjs.org/, https://github.com/ianstormtaylor/slate, or http://prosemirror.net/ which also use normalized JSON (or…
qrohlf on HNI think this looks great for CMS websites: where a user wishes to build an entire page in a web GUI. For composing text in blocks on existing pages, like comments or posts, you…
hitekker on HN
Quill
From 2 comments
But this is built with React so its not really reusable outside of its ecosystem. Is there a version that would run on preact instead? Maybe QuillJS would be a better option for…
ergo14 on HNI'd love to switch to a modern, React editor, but sadly they're all for 'rich text', but not full HTML, so I'm stuck with TinyMCE. I realize my use case is uncommon, which is…
rkuykendall-com on HN