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SlimWiki – Beautiful Wikis for Teams

3 pointsby getdavidhigginsover 9 years ago

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veidrover 9 years ago
This looks pretty good. I&#x27;m helping look for a simple, nontechincal-person-compatible wiki system at work[0].<p>We were going to go with Hackpad, but then Dropbox bought them. (Still might, but Dropbox makes us uncomfortable, and Hackpad&#x27;s official Twitter account stated last year that they are &#x27;no longer actively developing Hackpad&#x27;[1]... presumably because they are now developing the still-unrelease Dropbox Notes?<p>Slimwiki was on HN before[2], 410 ago, when it was apparently new. So that answered my first question, &quot;How long has this been around?&quot; Looks like it was released in 2014.<p>The more important question about any system you are going to be dumping your business knowledge into and investing time in curating is, of course, &quot;How long <i>will</i> this be around?&quot;<p>Much harder to know, and the Slimwiki website does nothing to reassure me that it won&#x27;t disappear when Jan Jones, the high school senior who made it for his class project, moves out of his parents&#x27; basement and goes off to college.[3]<p>Cool things about it in my 10-minute test drive:<p>1. Clean &amp; attractive editing experience<p>2. Attach any arbitrary attachment and store it inside the wiki<p>3. Choose which AWS region you want backing your wiki (very important in Japan, where &quot;Asia Pacific (Tokyo)&quot; tends to offer a hundred times faster throughput and 1% of the latency of say, &quot;US East (N. Virginia)&quot;<p>Non-good things:<p>1. no simultaneous multiple editing like Hackpad, Google Docs, etc.<p>2. need to manually save changes, and to add insult to injury the &#x27;delete all these changes&#x27; button is 2 pixels away from the &#x27;save changes&#x27; button (yes I managed to nuke my edits in my first ten minutes using it)<p>All in all, looks neat, and this is after test-driving the dozen or so most-recommended wiki systems (self-hosted or otherwise).<p>[0]: A horrid, painful ordeal — there are many, many terrible wiki systems in the world.<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;hackpad&#x2F;status&#x2F;506859732221829120" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;hackpad&#x2F;status&#x2F;506859732221829120</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=8008926" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=8008926</a><p>[3]: Not saying that is the case here, just that the website doesn&#x27;t really do anything to make me think it isn&#x27;t.