[HN Gopher] TheBoard: Collaborative Whiteboard powered by matrix...
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       TheBoard: Collaborative Whiteboard powered by matrix protocol and
       infrastucture
        
       Author : ingve
       Score  : 100 points
       Date   : 2021-07-31 11:58 UTC (11 hours ago)
        
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 (TXT) w3m dump (github.com)
        
       | karmanyaahm wrote:
       | Works pretty nicely for me. Also, a great idea to play pictionary
       | in this by drawing on this and chatting in the same room in a
       | normal Matrix client. (and prob many other more productive uses)
        
       | krastanov wrote:
       | I love the explosion in whiteboard collaborative tools, but I am
       | so frustrated how none of them support pressure sensitive
       | styluses. Pressure sensitivity is extremely important for a
       | natural writing experience and creation of good diagrams while
       | giving lessons with such tools. Regrettably, even browser support
       | for the required (standard) pointer event APIs is really buggy,
       | so one needs to use native apps for now.
        
         | nextweek2 wrote:
         | LYNX Whiteboard does pressure and with the 7.4 release later
         | this year it will add an ink bleed effect. The question is if
         | your hardware supports pressure data.
         | 
         | Disclosure, I work on the project.
         | 
         | https://www.lynxcloud.app
        
           | neolog wrote:
           | I have no idea what this is from that webpage
        
         | murgindrag wrote:
         | 95% of whiteboard apps I've used have unreasonable latency.
         | 
         | I'm not talking about network latency, but in the browser, on
         | my end. If the drawing is 300ms behind the cursor, handwriting
         | is wonky.
         | 
         | Microsoft got this right in their early Surface stuff, but
         | somehow messed it up in Teams. Google does this wrong. Zoom
         | does this wrong. There are a few things which does this well,
         | but it's rare.
        
           | nextweek2 wrote:
           | Teams is electron, so you're still in the browser and an
           | abstraction from the hardware.
        
       | abdullahkhalids wrote:
       | I am looking for solution for collaborating online with my math
       | research colleagues using a virtual whiteboard. Unfortunately,
       | most browser based whiteboards run out of memory or have other
       | issues - I am talking about 3-4 hour long sessions consisting of
       | dozens of pages of math. Right now, we take turns sharing our
       | screens on zoom and writing on our own whiteboard software
       | (OpenBoard, some Mac whiteboard etc.). This is less than ideal
       | because only one person can write at a time, which is not how we
       | work in person on paper or actual whiteboards.
       | 
       | The best I have found is http://www.styluslabs.com/ But our one
       | session with it ended with repeated disconnections and one person
       | couldn't even connect. Not to mention it is completely insecure
       | (http connections), and the whiteboard part of the software is
       | not that impressive.
       | 
       | Any suggestions?
        
         | zamadatix wrote:
         | Microsoft Whiteboard has been good for extremely large network
         | planning diagrams for me. Probably not nearly as many
         | individual strokes though so not sure how it performs in that
         | regard. It is available a MS Store App on Windows and it's
         | accessible in the browser via O365.
        
         | agustif wrote:
         | Im looking into building a research collaboration platform,
         | would like it to be like a google drive with markdown/latex.
         | 
         | Does that sound something appealing to work in a web document,
         | instead of white boarding?
        
           | abdullahkhalids wrote:
           | There are plenty of text based collaboration platforms, like
           | Overleaf or Google/Microsoft docs etc, and they work well.
           | 
           | They do not replicate how scientists actually work in person.
           | Text is often the last step, after much free form work on
           | whiteboards and paper. That is what is missing from the
           | market right now.
        
           | asix66 wrote:
           | Overleaf provides collaborative LaTeX [0]
           | 
           | [0] https://www.overleaf.com/
        
             | sdfzug wrote:
             | last time I used it, it didn't play well with simultaneous
             | editing
        
         | HMH wrote:
         | Perhaps drawpile: https://drawpile.net/ is worth a look. I have
         | seen people create rather large artworks with it, you even have
         | support for pressure sensitivity. It does not run on tablets
         | though as there is only a desktop version.
        
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       | Artistry121 wrote:
       | Yes!!! So great. I want to incorporate this into a paid project
       | on top of matrix. Reach out if you think you'd like to work on a
       | sellable product that would build open source
        
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