I am still :ablobcatsweatsip: ing on Nostr: I got reminded today that writemonkey exists. You guys know me and I'm really not one ...
I got reminded today that writemonkey exists. You guys know me and I'm really not one of those "everything old is great and everything new sucks" types but writemonkey is one of the great examples of great oldschool design being ruined by soydev.
It went from a phenomenal distraction free markdown editor that just saved to a single text file (fast, responsive, understandable, truly distraction free) into a bloated abomination powered by nodeJS with a half baked vscode style menu system. Saves to a SQL data base that got corrupted all the time, frequent crashes, poor responsiveness, hideous interface that's difficult to navigate...
It's a wonderful case study of exactly now NOT to move into the modern era. He doesn't even offer the original program download anymore but I have it on a harddrive somewhere https://writemonkey.com/wm3/index.php
It went from a phenomenal distraction free markdown editor that just saved to a single text file (fast, responsive, understandable, truly distraction free) into a bloated abomination powered by nodeJS with a half baked vscode style menu system. Saves to a SQL data base that got corrupted all the time, frequent crashes, poor responsiveness, hideous interface that's difficult to navigate...
It's a wonderful case study of exactly now NOT to move into the modern era. He doesn't even offer the original program download anymore but I have it on a harddrive somewhere https://writemonkey.com/wm3/index.php