Yeah my top 3 is websequencediagrams, PowerPoint and draw.io All depends on the information I'm trying to convey and the formality, Truthfully, PowerPoint is my goto for explaining flow and quick 'this speaks to that' style network stuff.

I also get a bit of millage from time to time out of the Graphviz online demos. I use those to throw together graph-ish stuff on the fly.

Draw.io is amazing!

It has now been renamed to diagrams.net: https://app.diagrams.net/

Github repo: https://github.com/jgraph/drawio

It's very easy to self-host, especially on Github Pages: https://github.com/jgraph/drawio#running

There's also desktop apps for Windows, GNU/Linux, Mac and Chrome OS: https://github.com/jgraph/drawio-desktop/releases/latest

At first, the naming change seems useless. At second thought, it might help with discovery as "draw" is very generic (end up calling it "draw io"). Third thought is why did they chose something generic again, instead of creating a unique name?

The name draw.io seems to be everywhere in the code/documentation/community/stack overflow still and even searching for "draw io" shows "Draw.io - Diagrams.net" which just adds to the confusion.

Probably either names would have been fine, but at least be consistent about it.

Afaik they only wanted to get rid of the io tld, as it is quite insecure.

What makes the .io TLD insecure?

From their blog: “ There are two major problems with .io domains:

The first is that the islands which should own the domain suffix, don’t, thanks to a wonderful piece of modern day British Imperialism. If you ever feel the need to donate to us, please give it to a more worthy cause.

Secondly, there was a security issue with the .io domain. In 2017, a researcher managed to take control of four of the seven authoritative name servers for the .io domain. We accept that mistakes can happen, strong processes limit the chances of them happening, but they still can.

However, the domain administrator made no attempt, at any time, to communicate with anyone about the issue. We’ve no evidence to suggest there is anything to be worried about, but the complete lack of communications means we have lost trust in whoever controls .io domains.”

https://www.diagrams.net/blog/move-diagrams-net

draw.io is great, however, isn't the question about what type of diagrams do we do instead of what software do we use to do diagrams? I am confused.

Just FYI: draw.io uses SVG foreignObjects for styling the text in the diagrams. That means that to get a proper rendering of the resulting SVG you need to look at it in a browser. If not, it has a fallback text element, but you lose the styling. I lost many hours due to this :/ other than that, I like it a lot

Sadly, this is a known problem. Theoretically, you can use Chrome headless to render such SVGs into PDFs.

Thanks for the extension! Don't make that meany diagrams but when I do I use it. Much easier than going to the draw.io in the browser as the extension can easily access the files in the source code

Came here to say this. It’s free and it does a great job.

Could you add a link to your extension please ?

You can find it here: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=hediet.v...

Like draw.io, it is open source! (https://github.com/hediet/vscode-drawio)