Stackedit: Is stackedit is being maintained?

[eldade]

Last commit was about a year ago -- perhaps there is a fork that's actively maintained?

[bradley-fastorientation]

It seems like the author is actively developing a new app called Classeur. A quick Google search for the difference between the two revealed this:

StackEdit is no longer being developed. Thus, Classeur is the true successor of StackEdit.

[Redsandro]

That's sad. I like StackEdit. Could use bugfixes. At least for bugs actively breaking current functionality, so it can still be used. I hope forces will co-operate to bring about a change of ownership to someone with more love for the project.

[dtu-compute]

If you are looking for working https and credentials for stackedit to couchdb, then take a look at the fork https://github.com/dtu-compute/dtu-enote-stackedit . The fork is not intended for general purpose, as it have other changes, but the couchdb fixes are.

[rschulman]

@dtu-compute If someone forks stack-edit to restart development, would you be willing to participate in that and upstream some of the improvements you've made? I'm curious about seeing if it can be made to be a wholly client-side app backed by couchdb.

[dtu-compute]

Probably not. If someone forked it and wanted to maintain StackEdit, then it would be easy to merge in our fixes.

After having used StackEdit in production for 6 months, it is not really suitable to mass document editing for our needs. It is a webapp (client side app), and no small amount of fixing can change that.

So we will most likely build our own in the next month, but with file based backend instead of couchdb and no menus. This will not be a general purpose editor, but if someone would be willing to send pull requests to make it general purpose, then we would certainly merge them in.

[Bilge]

Unfortunately @benweet became terminally disillusioned with the belief that StackEdit's double-pane view could be condensed into a single pane view as in Classeur. However it is trivial to prove how broken this model is. Classeur cannot:

• Render HTML markup. It cannot display <img> elements nor apply custom alignment.
• Render HTML entities.
• Render links nor follow inter-document links.
• Display heading sizes in monospace mode nor align heading underlines in variable-width mode.

All of these things are already possible in StackEdit with the two-paned approach. This is irrelevant, however, since @benweet died towards the end of 2016. RIP ☠️

[Redsandro]

@Bilge said:

@benweet died towards the end of 2016. RIP :skull_and_crossbones:

That's terrible to hear! :fearful: Although I don't know you; not sure if joking or sinsere.

[benweet]

Closing the issue, as it's neither a change request nor a bug.

[Redsandro]

Aww, not funny. I've seen projects abandoned due to accidents twice.

@benweet I'm glad you're alive. You've invested a lot of time in this project and you don't owe anyone your free time.

[philip-ulrich]

It's sad that this is seemingly the only issue @benweet has even touched in a very long time. Yet he is still willing to take peoples money. Sadly I contributed financially to this and because of an issue that is not being addressed, I cannot use this.

[cryptogee]

comment redacted - Apologies for previous abusive language, was feeling very emotional due to lost work. Absolutely no excuse for that kind of language, please accept my humble apologies.

[adrien-be]

StackEdit just launched a beta version of the 5th version

So I doubt the product is being left aside

[jkyeung]

Not only is StackEdit still alive, Classeur seems to be going away at the end of May this year.