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Re:Show HN: I've built open-source, collaborative, WYSIWYG M... by wouldbecouldbe on Friday June 23, 2023 @09:49AM (#36446794)
Only some developers like markdown, the rest of the world just expect things to work like Word.

Things like this can bridge the gap.

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Re:Show HN: I've built open-source, collaborative, WYSIWYG M... by lostlogin on Friday June 23, 2023 @10:57AM (#36447708)
> work like Word

This instantly makes me think about spending 20 minutes trying to get a picture to stay where I put it and have text neatly formatted. Word peaked some time ago and I don’t even know what it is now.

The app? The online thing? The teams thing? They aren’t actually fully compatible and it’s awful.

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Re:Show HN: I've built open-source, collaborative, WYSIWYG M... by Turing_Machine on Friday June 23, 2023 @11:09AM (#36447902)
> work like Word.

I haven't used Word much for a while, but the first thing that came to mind here was "You mean like typing a comma and suddenly your picture moves 15 pages away?".

:-)

That said, this is pretty neat. I'm not wild about Monaco because it was crap on mobile the last time I looked (which has also admittedly been a while... at that time, anyway, CodeMirror was the only one I could find that didn't suck on mobile), but still, this appears to be a very worthy project for its use case.

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Re:Show HN: I've built open-source, collaborative, WYSIWYG M... by reportgunner on Friday June 23, 2023 @11:37AM (#36448361)
> ... rest of the world just expect things to work like Word

While having absolutely no idea how to actually use Word.

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