Show HN: Slashbase – open-source collaborative IDE for databases in browser

Re:Show HN: Slashbase – open-source collaborative IDE for da... by vichle on Tuesday November 08, 2022 @06:12AM (#33517998)

Looks promising. There are a couple of things that worries me though. (I haven't tried it yet, only skimmed the docs)

1. Telemetry needs to be opt-in during install. 2. The roles are weird, why would a developer need write access by default? That's just a recipe for disaster. Would be better to default to read-only in all roles and allow upgrading to write permission as an active choice. 3. There needs to be a clear way to distinguish between prod/staging. I like clients where you can change the background color for different connections, eg screaming red for prod.

Good luck, keep up the good work

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Re:Show HN: Slashbase – open-source collaborative IDE for da... by paraswaykole on Tuesday November 08, 2022 @06:21AM (#33518030)

Thanks for the awesome suggestions. On point 2, I had removed the roles part from the software code, since it was absurd at the moment. Just need to update the same in docs.

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Re:Show HN: Slashbase – open-source collaborative IDE for da... by mmaia on Tuesday November 08, 2022 @10:05AM (#33519751)

+1 on the opt-in telemetry

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Re:Show HN: Slashbase – open-source collaborative IDE for da... by paraswaykole on Tuesday November 08, 2022 @10:56AM (#33520379)

agreed. will make it opt-in telemetry.

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Re:Show HN: Slashbase – open-source collaborative IDE for da... by db3pt0 on Tuesday November 08, 2022 @10:20AM (#33519931)

Not only should telemetry be optional, but a failure to send it should not result in the application refusing to run¹. With a host-level block of PostHog, the server crashes with:

Post "https://app.posthog.com/capture/": dial tcp x.x.x.x:443: connect: connection refused

1: https://github.com/slashbaseide/slashbase/blob/a7cb7871b07a9...

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Re:Show HN: Slashbase – open-source collaborative IDE for da... by paraswaykole on Tuesday November 08, 2022 @10:56AM (#33520370)

thanks for pointing out. will be fixed.

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