What are your preferred alternatives to Google Drive's shared documents for writing/editing? Preferring ones which don't require accoutn/login!
Please Boost!?
@jackivan88 thank you! I don't think this one will exactly work for what I'm thinking but I love the auto self-destruct for other applications.
@despens thank you! it's delightful that the conference option is free.
@RussSharek @despens @platypus You might take a look at etherpad.org. There is also a markdown plugin for it https://github.com/ether/ep_markdown
You can self-host HackMD, too:
https://github.com/hackmdio/hackmd/
Haven't tried that myself, would be interesting to hear how well that works.
Otherwise there is the "classic" Etherpad, from http://etherpad.org/ which I do self-host and which is quite easy to handle.
@platypus overleaf always seems cool to me plus open science https://www.overleaf.com/
@platypus oh idk if that req login. ._.
@serialscrisis it's super cool to know about at least *investigates*
@platypus @serialscrisis I've coauthored I think 5 papers on overleaf by this point. i don't have an account on it but the person who created the projects did I think. I like using my own editor and compiling latex myself versus using the web interface, so it was nice to have that option. it uses git in the backend, which is also nice for reverting changes.
@platypus Host your own Nextcloud with collabora office 😃
@platypus Ironically I just got a Chromebook as the cheapest immediate replacement for my netbook that went bellyup, and I fucking HATE that the only "hard drive" is Google Docs. I got an ext hard drive with it to circumvent it. Before, I wrote in Libre Office (and hosted online with Google Docs, unfortunately, since Dropbox let everybody down).
@KevinCarson1 @platypus not like anything stopping you from installing something better on Chromebook ;)
(Even in dualboot afaik)
@KevinCarson1 @platypus I looked it up and it seems like you can install Linux *inside* your chromeOS with crouton
https://github.com/dnschneid/crouton
shouldn't be too hard imo
@KevinCarson1 @platypus glad to help! Ping me if you need any help
@platypus The whole list of Etherpad instances is here: https://github.com/ether/etherpad-lite/wiki/Sites-that-run-Etherpad-Lite
@platypus Riseup.net have an open Etherpad instance which you can access as an .onion site.
@platypus Etherpad is the only one I'm really familiar with. Kind of working on an ethercalc alternative server implementation, though.
@platypus I've heard about Collabora but honestly didn't use it
@platypus I have instances of Etherpad-Lite and Ethercalc running at home.
@platypus Not sure what your requirements are, but there's http://etherpad.org
@platypus
http://cryptpad.fr/
Without an account, docs get deleted after 3 months of inactivity. Its security isn't perfect, but its far better than most.
@platypus i want to know as well!
@platypus passing around an org-mode file or wikimedia
@platypus https://gobby.github.io/ for online collaborative editing, or syncthing/seafile if file sync is all that's needed. I'd like to see a solid implementation for collaborative editing with org-mode on emacs
I'm not aware of any service that allows this kind of thing anonymously (i.e. without login)
@platypus
The perfect solution is self hosted nextcloud, but you can found some instance open to public too
@platypus Atom with the Teletype add-on might work depending on your use case.
@platypus https://pad.riseup.net/