Open source Typora

[anujbhatt]

Thanks for this editor -- I've been using it for a while and it's been great.

Open sourcing this will only make things better! :)

[waahto]

I strongly agree with this. Even if Typora is going to cost something in the future.

[leewi9]

Typora is absolutely an amazing markdown tool, but it has so many bugs and things needs to improve, it would be better if it could be open sourced, if it's for money reason don't worry I'm sure people will make donate.

[b-long]

The donation idea is excellent, IMHO. Maybe open source and start the donation campaign simultaneously? Plus, you never know what you might learn from a pull request. Any maintainer (or reader of pull request code) may gain skills, which can certainly bring financial reward. I looked for an editor for hours yesterday, and tried a variety. Typora was the first that offered the features that I need :

1. Ability to run locally
2. A file finder
3. Canonical shortcuts (e.g. CMD + O for open, CMD + B for bold text.)
4. Preview output immediately

Added bonus, it looks very pretty 👍 Nice job!

[Menci]

+1

[smallx]

+1

[fiskr]

+1

[pgolebiowski]

+1

[felipehw]

+1
I will happily support with money a free (libre) software Typora :D

[leewi9]

and Open Source will surely speed up bug fix in Typora, and bring an
even more great improvement in the user experience.

On 2016/9/28 21:20, felipehw wrote:

+1
I will happily support with money a free (libre) software Typora :D

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[leewi9]

and open source will surely speed up bug fix in Typora, and bring great improvement on the user experience.

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I will happily support with money a free (libre) software Typora :D

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[Noettore]

+1

[nateswart]

I would love to support Typora, both financially and with contributions. Please consider open sourcing it.

[brylie]

@abnerlee would it be OK if people donated towards this issue on Bountysource? If so, how much would be a reasonable goal to reach, so we could open source typora?

[leewi9]

Since the 100+ issues can not be dealed in foreseeable time, I believe It's prime time to open source Typora, so that we can let more capable and suitable guys to solve them asap.

2016年10月27日 +0800 17:43 Brylie Christopher Oxley notifications@github.com，写道：

@abnerlee (https://github.com/abnerlee) would it be OK if people donated towards this issue on Bountysource? If so, how much would be a reasonable goal to reach, so we could open source Typora?

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[AlexPasternak]

I don't know if a good convincing argument is to argue that the app's creator is not as capable or suitable.

[brylie]

@AlexPasternak right. It could also be a 'lost in translation' thing, since @leewi9 may not be a native English speaker. E.g. there may not have been any malice to their words.

[vassudanagunta]

The two meanings of "more", [1] comparative adverb as in "more capable" and [2] greater numerical amount ("more guys") are distinct words in Mandarin. You can use it in sense 2 to modify "guys" yet have it adjacent to "capable" and it would still modify "guys".

In other words, I think @leewi9 was trying to say: ...so that instead of having a single smart guy (@abnerlee) slowly tackle the long bug backlog while simultaneously advancing Typora, we can enable many more willing and able coders to work on those bugs in parallel much faster.

[rognoni]

“Decide you must, how to serve them best. If you leave now, help them you could; but you would destroy all for which they have fought, and suffered.”

[vassudanagunta]

@rognoni, Yoda turned out to be wrong many times. He was wrong in what you quoted, and he was wrong before that, when he said, “He is too old. Yes, too old to begin the training.”

Also, Yoda would never have up-voted his own comment ;)

[lokesh-krishna]

I too would gladly contribute to see this beauty go open source.
The BountySource idea sounds good.

[mathwo]

+1

[obrodinho]

+1

[fulus06]

+10086

[nonbeing]

+1

[yhaskell]

+1

[disanvparean]

+1

[balupton]

I love typora, but will always be on a lookout for an open-source equivalent for it. Once that I can customise and use for other applications. Typora is great editing interface trapped in a single application use case. Open-source the editing interface, and have the app paid. I already have a use case where I could do with the typora editing interface.

Open-sourcing will also allow for extensions. Being able to write other things that are autocompleted and turned into rendered blocks would be great. The idea would be to be able to stop writing posts like

• https://github.com/rauchg/blog/blob/master/pages/2017/2016-in-review.js - pretty much everything done in this can be done with Typora, however how it is rendered would need to be customised
• https://github.com/balupton/website/blob/2012%2B/src/render/index.html.eco - HTML content that makes use of @link helper extensively

In code editors, but instead in WYSIWYG editors like Typora. Typora is the only one out of the WYSIWYG editors that handles the intertwining of code and rendered content so well.

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[nheeren]

I am really afraid this project is falling asleep. This is one of the best pieces of software I have on my computer and I would certainly pay for it. Maybe also reboot the project with a kickstarter campaign for open sourcing it?

[dessalines]

I've been trying to find good open-source alternatives but none exist unfortunately.

[vassudanagunta]

@nheeren Huh? You say it's "one of the best pieces of software" yet you worry it's falling asleep? That's like worrying that the runner at the front of the race isn't running fast enough despite the fact that he's still running (Typora gets updated pretty frequently), still ahead, and nobody is catching up.

Sure, open source would be nice, but that's not our call. @abnerlee is the person doing all the work. We can only beg him to make it open source. We are not entitled to it. And it's rather rude for anyone but him to "reboot the project". (And I'm still confused... one of the best pieces of software you use desperately needs a reboot?)

IMHO, Typora is good as-is. That is why so many of us use it (and call it one of the best pieces of software we use). It would be awesome if some of the open issues were addressed sooner than later. Most importantly rock solid support for GFM (which is now officially a superset of CommonMark). No other editor is even close in other respects. I can't complain.

And yes, if some of the people clamoring for open source Typora stopped clamoring and started building one, and it started to catch up to Typora, I'd jump ship and even join the effort.

[nheeren]

Sorry for my confusing post earlier. Due to the large number of open issues, I (apparently falsely) assumed development had stopped. Very happy to see the project is alive. My thought was that a kickstarter campaign could help the developer to make more time for creating the stable release.

[vassudanagunta]

I think people should simply ask him :)

[vassudanagunta]

@dessalines Seriously? Down-voting me for saying that rather than unilaterally starting kickstarters or declaring the project needing a reboot, people should ask the author, the person doing the work, the one who created the thing you say you cannot find a good alternative for?

Can you tell me where I am wrong in my two comments you down-voted?

You and @leewi9 simultaneously admit Typora is amazing and the best, yet he complains about "so many bugs" and arrogantly says "It's prime time to open source Typora, so that we can let more capable and suitable guys to solve them asap", and you both down-vote me for simply asking people to be more respectful and appreciative, and less entitled?

I know should just ignore all this, but I am just saddened by the lack of respect and gratitude.

[leewi9]

Why are you always talking too much? I assume you don’t do coding, so better get the fuck out of our community  发自 iPhone 版 Yahoo 邮箱 星期日, 十一月 5, 2017, 13:06 于 Vas Sudanagunta <notifications@github.com>写道： @dessalines Seriously? Down-voting me for saying that rather than unilaterally starting kickstarters or declaring the project needing a reboot, people should ask the author, the person doing the work, the one who created the thing you say you cannot find a good alternative for? Can you tell me where I am wrong in my two comments you down-voted? You and @leewi9 simultaneously admit Typora is amazing and the best, yet he complains about "so many bugs" and arrogantly says "It's prime time to open source Typora, so that we can let more capable and suitable guys to solve them asap", and you both down-vote me for simply asking people to be more respectful and appreciative, and less entitled? I know should just ignore all this, but I am just saddened by the lack of respect and gratitude. — You are receiving this because you were mentioned. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub, or mute the thread.

[dessalines]

There are too many bugs with this, I've since switched to Retext, which is a great open-source markdown editor, and unlike this has a lot of active contributers.

[fiskr]

Why are you always talking too much? I assume you don’t do coding, so better get the fuck out of our community

I don't know who taught you to behave that way, but it's a shame.

It is clear that the creator of Typora is greedy and won't open-source the tool.

I too have stopped using it because of how it handles newlines. I agree with @dessalines with finding an open source alternative. I won't be coming back unless it is made open source and I can address this problem.

That said, @vassudanagunta is right that this is the author's work still - it is not our own, and if others care to have features worked, because the tool is not open source, the best option is to talk to the author and work out a way to get the work done. My personal view is that it should be opened to the community to work on, but it's up to the author to decide that. Don't be cruel to him for considering pragmatic options just because they aren't open sourcing the tool.

[AlexPasternak]

This thread is disappointing in many ways. @leewi9, you usually contribute well to this board, but are being very rude here, and I'm not sure why. Just because people have a different opinion doesn't mean they need to be attacked and asked to leave.

@fiskr, I strongly disagree that working on a commercial license makes the author "greedy". Everyone loves free stuff, but not every app can be donation-ware. Besides, we've been using Typora all this time so far without paying. I know people have strong philosophical beliefs, almost quasi-religious ones, about open source, but I prefer whatever creates the best tools and let authors be happy with their creation and make a living.

[vassudanagunta]

@abnerlee, maybe you should close this issue and mark as won't fix. You have stated many times that you do not intend to open source Typora, that it has a commercial license, and that you want to make a living from your work on it (another thread where @leewi9 was being a bully), and that you intend to charge for it when it leaves beta.

This issue has 56 thumbs up and 33 hearts. Keeping it open confuses and misleads people, giving them the false expectation that you are considering open sourcing it.

I also recommend that you clarify things in this repo's README. Pull request submitted.

[pgolebiowski]

This issue has 56 thumbs up and 33 hearts. Keeping it open confuses and misleads people, giving them the false expectation that you are considering open sourcing it.

+1

Pull request submitted.

Great that you pushed a pull request with 3 sentences that express @abnerlee's will regarding making money on this project. No matter whether it is aligned with his actual will or not, I just find it ridiculous xDD

[praveenscience]

👍

[Mansour-J]

👌👌👌

[vassudanagunta]

FYI, there is now another WYSIWYG Markdown editor, Mark Text, and it is open source. Only four months old, and not near Typora's feature set, yet.

[pgolebiowski]

Wow, the source code mode looks sooooo much like the one in Typora. Good find, @vassudanagunta.

You receive +20 to being cool.

[AlexPasternak]

Mark Text will be open source indefinitely

Just to note, indefinitely is not the same as forever. But sure, competition is always good.

[vassudanagunta]

@AlexPasternak I just asked the dev. He updated the README to say “forever”. He had thought "indefinitely" meant "forever".

I hope the people who were on Abner’s case for not making Typora open source now go make contributions to Mark Text. Put up or... 😉

[poVoq]

This software is also a reasonably close open-source alternative:
https://github.com/nhnent/tui.editor

[felipehw]

This is a good libre software alternative to Typora: https://github.com/marktext/marktext.
Let me know if you knows a better.

[leewi9]

Sorry but this doesn’t have sidebar and file manager.

[felipehw]

There are sidebar. Look in Menu -> "View" -> "Toggle Side Bar"

[leewi9]

what about sidebar TOC and folder manager?