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TinyMCE
Company blog · tiny.cloud/blog · on HN as spyder81webprogramming
TinyMCE is the company blog at tiny.cloud, writing about web and programming. Since 2018, 16 different Hacker News readers have linked it 33 times, most often “Real-Time collaboration in TinyMCE with Slate.js”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-22, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (6) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked on HN as a source for posts on real-time collaborative editing (OT vs CRDT) and emoji accessibility, and for TinyMCE product news. Comments cite these posts without judging the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 6 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Elevate your web development with TinyMCE's WYSIWYG Rich Text Editor. Trusted by 1.5M+ developers, with AI-powered tools and seamless integrations.
Most-linked posts?
- Real-Time collaboration in TinyMCE with Slate.js3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2020-02-21
- OT and CRDT trade-offs for Real-Time collaboration2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-01-13
What Hacker News says?
Tiny (ex Ephox) | Brisbane, Australia | Full-time | ONSITE | https://tiny.cloud If you’ve ever created content on the web you’ve used one of our products. We are the makers of TinyMCE - an open source project similar to an online word processor. It enables rich content to be created in applications like Drift, GoFundMe, ServiceNow, Accelo, Eventbrite and more. It’s downloaded more than a million times a year and is…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2018)”Submitted OT and CRDT trade-offs for Real-Time collaboration as a story · 178 points
HN discussionThey don't capture semantic intent that well compared to Operational Transforms when conflict arises. https://www.tiny.cloud/blog/real-time-collaboration-ot-vs-cr... Some teams also encountered engineering problems using them. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24186883 Done properly however, they can be magical. http://archagon.net/blog/2018/03/24/data-laced-with-history/...
Comment linking /blog/real-time-collaboration-ot-vs-crdt/
on “Show HN: Fuzzynote – terminal-based, CRDT-backed, collaborative note-taking”Submitted TinyMCE Is Using ReasonML as a story · 12 points
HN discussionSlate.js, even after change to Immer is slow. IMHO (as a person who actively observes the development, sometimes participate in their Slack) the "performance" is not taken seriously in this project. In last few months they provided few PRs that improved few cases, while breaking others. I am impressed how many projects are using it [0], because it has problems to handle editing and pasting huge documents. I also see…
Comment linking /blog/real-time-collaborative-editing-slate-js/
on “Show HN: Bangle.dev – Collection of tools for building rich text editors”Submitted Real-Time collaboration in TinyMCE with Slate.js as a story · 10 points
HN discussionThe TinyMCE team is building a big new feature with it https://www.tiny.cloud/blog/tinymce-reasonml/ We aren't sure when we will be able to open source the new model, and we are still using Reason syntax with the ReScript compiler, but we will transition to ReScript syntax eventually.
Comment linking /blog/tinymce-reasonml/
on “ReScript 8.4”Submitted Moving TinyMCE to Modern JavaScript as a story · 9 points
HN discussionYou mean in terms of accessibility? The good news is that Twitter, err, X gifs already have built-in alt text. Apparently emoji aren't the greatest for accessibility: https://www.tiny.cloud/blog/emojis-and-accessibility/ It may be even worse for emoticons, so that's a legitimate criticism: https://uxdesign.cc/emojis-in-accessibility-how-to-use-them-...
Comment linking /blog/emojis-and-accessibility/
on “Your brain on emoji”Submitted How TinyMCE Uses Metrics in Engineering as a story · 7 points
HN discussionTinyMCE person here. We are actually working at integrating Slate into TinyMCE, so you'll end up with the best of both worlds! See https://www.tiny.cloud/blog/real-time-collaborative-editing-... Also - definitely use HTML as storage. More portable between editors.
Comment linking /blog/real-time-collaborative-editing-slate-js/
on “Ask HN: How to Move Away from DraftJS”Submitted TinyMCE is now charging for "editor loads" on sites that use its editor as a story · 5 points
HN discussion14 contributors have been working hard on the next release of TinyMCE... and it is now live. Notably, in this release is 96% of the code is TypeScript. The entire UI layer was rewritten related UI APIs are much more powerful and well-documented now. Changelog of the last 4 months of alphas, betas, etc: https://www.tiny.cloud/docs/changelog/
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on “TinyMCE V5 – new UI layer, components, plugins and APIs”Submitted The why and how behind Tiny’s RTC end-to-end encryption as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Who are the ninja stick men from Pluto? as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted How I think about spending millions to grow a SaaS business as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Streamlining Your CSS Development as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted TinyMCE 5 Developer Preview as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted MoxieManager takes away the complications of managing users' media in the cloud as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Tiny RTC: collaborative E2E-encrypted rich-text editing as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Modular programming: Beyond the spaghetti mess as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Full stack developer skills and the importance of learning as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Emulating the Medium Editor as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted History of WYSIWYG editors and CMS: a timeline (2022) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Email rendering: Ensuring consistent email display across clients as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted HTML Editor as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Digital Workplace: Product or Philosophy? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted 2020 developer trends for software developers and programmers as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Best custom emojis for Slack and the workplace as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Build a simple chat app with Deno and a WYSIWYG editor as a story · 1 points
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