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Comment by digitalsankhara | Hacker News Reader

I used, and liked, the predecessor called Revolution which was closer to the original HyperCard ethos. They are now stuffing so much into LiveCode it feels lost in itself. As a company I find them all over the place with this product.

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Moreover, they gave up on their opensource Community Edition:

https://forums.livecode.com/viewtopic.php?t=14667

For those who may be wondering what became of the erstwhile Free & Open Source LiveCode Community Edition (LCCE), check out OpenXTalk:

https://openxtalk.org/

and Forum:

https://www.openxtalk.org/forum/

and Downloads:

https://openxtalk.org/OXTDownloads.html

Some of the download links are for RCs of the OpenXTalk DON'T PANIC! Edition (DPE) IDE , which is a fork of LCCE

GitHub of OXT DPE:

https://github.com/OpenXTalk-org/OpenXtalk-IDE-DontPanicEdit...

Other download links are to another fork, OpenXTalk Lite Edition (OXT Lite), which seems to have recently been rebranded to "tIDE."

tIDE Homepage:

https://www.tsites.co.uk/sites/other/other.php

EDIT: LiveCode, not Live Code.

Thoughts on the rebranding of tIDE? I'm sorry I missed it as "OXT Lite", but worry about it being presented Athena-like as born fully-formed from a single developer...

Thank you for this. It lives! I will try these forks out. Don't you just love open source!

They did yes, after quite a few funding campaigns targeted at their users. I felt quite bitter about that and I fell for the hype myself.

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