Retirement of notes.kde.org

[Ben Cooksley]

On Thu, Sep 19, 2019 at 2:50 AM Aleix Pol <aleixpol at kde.org> wrote:
>
> On Sun, Sep 15, 2019 at 8:58 PM Ben Cooksley <bcooksley at kde.org> wrote:
> >
> > Good evening all,
> >
> > Currently we're in the situation where the software we use to run
> > notes.kde.org is both difficult to maintain, as well as support (for
> > things like document confidentiality for various groups within KDE).
> >
> > We'd therefore like to retire the service, replacing it with the
> > Realtime Text Editor within Nextcloud (share.kde.org). Internally this
> > editor uses Markdown.
> >
> > You can find a demo of this at https://share.kde.org/s/gtFcRmwetRKqTZJ
> > (no login required)
> >
> > It would be appreciated if everyone could please test the realtime
> > text editor and let us know if they encounter any issues.
> >
> > In terms of feature differences, we are aware that
> > highlighting/authorship information won't be retained by the new
> > editor, and there can occasionally be problems when editing the same
> > line with someone else simultaneously.
> >
> > If everyone is okay with this we'd like to go ahead with shutting down
> > notes.kde.org as soon as possible.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Ben Cooksley
> > KDE Sysadmin
>
> Hi,
> Is the new editor already usable on share.kde.org? If I create a text
> file I get a different thing than your demo.

It should be yes. Did you create a new document or a new text document?

This new editor only works with text documents (slightly confusingly)
as the document editor is a version of LibreOffice Online (for more
fully featured documents)

>
> Aleix

Cheers,
Ben