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An Etherpad clone in Node.js and Socket.io

Shown by JacksonGariety on May 6, 2013. Click the card to turn it over.

40points

20comments

#620of 1,739 in 2013

Top 36%of 2013 by points

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1 positive, 4 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 6 critical, out of 11 comments about the project. Thread score -0.33.

Idea: 0 for, 3 againstExecution: 0 for, 2 againstPerformance: 0 for, 1 againstDesign: 1 for, 0 against

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Editor gets flooded with destructive edits and spam from griefers
From 3 comments
- I had this opened in a tab and initially forgot what it was.. I thought it was some sort of artificial intelligence or ASCII movie, because it seems 1001 griefers are…
  petercooper on HN
- It kind of shows that it's not really about anonymity (I interpret it as that anyway). When there are enough amount of connected users it really favors destructive edits. And we…
  worldsayshi on HN
- I am always amazed by what people do when they're given anonymity and collaborative text editors - rarely positively. But this seems particularly bad. Is HN really so many twelve…
  stbullard on HN
Already exists: Etherpad and EtherpadLite are open source
From 2 comments
- Etherpad is open source already. As is EtherpadLite (EPL), its node.js rewrite.
  sethish on HN
- etherpad-lite is node.js and socket.io
  5vforest on HN
Cursor jumps when others edit, text disappears quickly
From 2 comments
- If I click the link and wait a few minutes I start to see someone else's message. It last for only a second and then vanishes.
  dopamean on HN
- When it doesn't change under you every 5 minutes....
  Johnyma22 on HN
Sockets can be emitted from the console, no input protection
From 1 comment
- You should wrap your JS in an anonymous function. People can just emit sockets from the console. e.g. socket.emit('msg', "text here");
  javis on HN

Keep cursor in place when others edit
From 1 comment
- Yeah I wanted to try out crypto. There are a number of things about this app I want to change. Namely getting your cursor to stay in place when other people edit. No clue how to…
  JacksonGariety on HN
Use a proper unique id generator instead of random hex
From 1 comment
- From https://github.com/JacksonGariety/Yugen/blob/master/routes.js ``` res.redirect(crypto.randomBytes(3).toString('hex')) ``` You probably already know this, but you'd probably…
  edtechdev on HN
Wrap JS in an anonymous function
From 1 comment
- You should wrap your JS in an anonymous function. People can just emit sockets from the console. e.g. socket.emit('msg', "text here");
  javis on HN