Consider upgrading etherpad to hackpad, which is now open source

[ebarry]

https://github.com/dropbox/hackpad

Hackpad allows for commenting, formatting, and more elegant authorship tracking. Using this, we could collaboratively author documentation without leaving the public lab ecosystem.

[ebarry]

This is a revival of jywarren#205

[ebarry]

i created https://publiclab.hackpad.com/ for general purposes.

[jywarren]

I think an initial list of prerequisites for a migration to hackpad would include:

• a plan (including any examples/tutorials/documentation) for migrating existing pad content
• a plan (including any examples/tutorials/documentation) for reconciling/adapting/relating user accounts between publiclab.org and the hackpad

Thanks!

[jywarren]

Dropbox apparently kind of killed Hackpad (dropbox/hackpad#67) so a community fork is at https://github.com/hackpad/hackpad but still no activity past July 2017 -- so I'm not sure we should migrate...

etherpad-lite is still supported by an active community: https://github.com/ether/etherpad-lite, and that's what we currently use.

[almereyda]

There are good experiences with https://github.com/hackmdio/codimd/, when looking for more formatting-enabled alternatives to Etherpad lite.

[grvsachdeva]

Should we open this as a new issue? @jywarren

[jywarren]

I think we'd better close it as Hackpad seems to be abandoned. Thanks for the input @almereyda ! We'll check it out!