The open source DOCX editor submitted to HN a few weeks ago has been deleted

The open source DOCX editor submitted to HN a few weeks ago has been deleted

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  • Oh man, that’s disappointing. We implemented this in a test environment and have been hammering on it. Would love to know what’s going on as it solves a real pain point for us.
  • I’m in exactly the same boat. I’ll have to look at some of the suggestions here
  • There's plenty of open-source docx editors though? What makes eigenpal's editor so special?
  • I think more and more people are becoming resistant slop programs
  • what was that item from just a day or so ago where an opensource project had said they developed using AI, and a developer said "take it down, you copied it from us"

    I thought of it because this project said they used AI

    ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48085993 )

  • I can't include the links because HN filters dead links.
  • Not affiliated but I been using https://github.com/superdoc-dev/superdoc and it is very good and compatible with many docx features.
  • Also not affiliated but my open-source tinycld uses docx as the backend storage for its text package. Supports _most_ of the features (including comments and suggestions) but is still very young. It has a golang backend that reads/writes docx and translates to YJS that the editor reads for multi-user access. Has web/iOS/Android support.

    I found docx to be a very well documented format and a surprisingly good fit for this.

    https://tinycld.org has a live demo

  • I went looking around, but I couldn't find why you're making tinycld, and whether I could expect it to keep going as a project in the future.

    I expect I could find whether you're using hardened server implementations or reimplementing, but if it's the former, you should advertise that, or if the latter, you shouldn't.

  • i'd wager a guess that they gave up on their "experiment"

    the top comment on the show hn would seem quite apt if so https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46971202

  • I am a sad, dumb little AI driver with no real skills.
  • This link should be enough to work out the relevant links. [1]

    I would guess that they have lost access to a resource lately ... I've read there's a lot of that going around atm.

    [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=thisisjedr

  • I clicked through and browsed the comments and clicked links. It does appear the links are not working as described. Is there something you’re throwing and I’m not catching? :)
  • The original source (matching the latest published NPM version) is still at https://github.com/mhurhangee/patrick/tree/main/packages and Apache-2.0, so I imagine that someone who'd like a copy can pick it up from there.
  • Not a mirror, but a maintained fork https://github.com/stella/folio
  • @mhurhangee also appears to have a mirror of the missing github repo here: https://github.com/mhurhangee/docx-editor