CollabUML
Dev tools
diagram editor
SHOW HN2023
How HN took it
4 positive, 8 neutral or asking, 1 mixed, 2 critical, out of 15 comments about the project. Thread score +0.21.
Execution: 0 for, 1 againstDocs: 0 for, 1 againstDesign: 1 for, 0 againstIdea: 1 for, 0 against
The thread, comment by comment
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positive neutral or mixed critical about another commenter or something else the maker
What HN said
What people liked
Useful tool; PlantUML is already used widely for sequence diagrams in teams
From 3 comments
love the tool! Came across plantuml and presented it to my colleagues 1 year ago, it got all the attention and it's the defacto tool in my current workplace.
jostiniane on HNWe use plantuml all the time for sequence diagrams, we check the code into git and use the generated images in the documentation, then the readme.md provides detailed doc of our…
foooobaba on HNSure! Docs-As-Code with PlantUML and in our case Sphinx (AsciiDoctor is just as good, in our case Sphinx-Needs moved the needle) is a nice low effort "persist your architecture…
jeffreygoesto on HN
Objections
Maintenance plans unclear; maker not planning to continue touching JS/TS
From 1 comment
It is nice, that you open source it, instead of throwing it away, but you might want to add, that you seem to have no real plan of maintaining this any further:…
hutzlibu on HN
Repo initially lacked a license
From 1 comment
The post title says open source but the repo is missing any license file and the readme doesn't specify your license either (although the license file would be better since…
mdaniel on HN
Requests
Support for PlantUML Font Awesome icons
From 1 comment
Great tool! Would you be open to CollabUML adding PlantUML Font Awesome icons? You can see the demo PlantUML for "Area diagram demo" that I'm using:…
jph on HN
Hosted real-time collaboration and a paid private mode
From 1 comment
Why not put this thing online, real Collab mode? Just have each session with a different uuid in the URL, so that one can share it with other team... Full private mode could be…
mndgs on HN
Questions
Would Etherpad be chosen again, and are non-Etherpad servers supported
From 1 comment
Really cool, thanks for sharing! Would you have chosen Etherpad if you had to do it again? (I'm thinking of adding text collaboration to an open-source project I maintain). Did…
alixanderwang on HN
Is UML actually used outside university
From 1 comment
i know people are upvoting this because it got open sourced but i'm wondering if anyone actually uses UML outside of university classes i attended? if anyone would give his…
EgoIsMyFriend on HN
Alternatives named
Mermaid diagrams in GitHub markdown
From 1 comment
Some time ago, github introduced support for Mermaid diagrams (https://github.blog/2022-02-14-include-diagrams-markdown-files-mermaid/), a nice perk is that you don't need to…
AlexITC on HN
StarUML
From 1 comment
I use selective UML concepts to express my designs. My current tool of choice so far is StarUML which also lets me export the designs as nice looking HTML
FpUser on HN
C4 Model
From 1 comment
TL;DR: Not the UML you're taught in school, but check out C4 Model https://c4model.com/ -- Pure UML is pretty rare in my experience, and most likely used only in very strict…
ewi_ on HN