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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  • 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'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

  • 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

  • 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.

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