Show HN: Scribble - Simple Markdown Wikis

Beautiful; this is exactly the type of minimalist wiki I've been wanting, but never got around to making for myself. A few points of feedback:

- The pricing model is unclear. Are the account upgrades a one-time purchase, or a monthly cost? The amount seems reasonable for the former, and too much for the latter.

- One of the great things about wikis is the ability to create new pages from within the content, just by typing [[new page]] or whatever. It would be great if clicking an empty link spawned a new page form rather than a 404.

- Once immersed in a wiki's content, the title bar should disappear, or become less prominent in some way. If I'm using this to share info with friends or collaborators (the best use for a wiki), we want to focus on our content, not the site itself.

Nice job.

The name is unfortunate, Scribble is also the name of Racket's documentation tool[1] (which can be used for the same kind of purpose: writing prose and publishing it).

[1] http://docs.racket-lang.org/scribble/index.html

Have you guys seen Aaron Swartz' jottit (http://www.jottit.com)?

Same idea - all it takes is a text area to produce a version controlled, markdown website.

It doesn't support fenced code blocks (from GFM). That's kinda inconvenient. Uhm... it actually does, but the preview does not.

E.g.:

    ```ruby
      def foo
    	puts 'bar'
      end
    ```

This results in a `pre>code.ruby` block as it should, but it does not apply any code highlighting nor does it work in the preview.

I really like the idea (I always wanted some private markdown wiki I can conveniently access from anywhere without having to set it up and maintain it myself), but without history/diff its usefulness is somewhat hindered.

Edit: Add "max-width: 100%" to "p img". Code inside paragraphs should be also 18px, not 12px.

In MediaWiki, to create a new page, I create a link to it, then click on that link abd edit the new page. In Scribble, this workflow doesn't work; maybe you should add that functionality.

Also, why do I have to repeat myself and say "[next page](next-page)"? I prefer the MediaWiki syntax where I can just say "[[next page]]"

Also see Gollum[1], a wiki that runs locally from many markup formats including markdown.

[1] https://github.com/github/gollum/

Please don't ask for a password without HTTPS.

In the preview, there is no margin below the <pre> blocks, which I find annoying. I've tried adding different types of text blocks underneath it, but I'm unable to force more bottom margin.

With your screenshots please show us the diff page and the history page, without these I'm feel like Im just previewing a blogging service.

I like the simplicity of it.

I suggest you to provide hints for markdown markups, that'll let people who don't know markdown get started quickly.

I blogged about it here: http://liveditor.com/blog/new-simple-markdown-based-wiki-sys...

I'm not sure if this is directed at tech-ish people or not, but maybe the word markdown should link to the daring fireball page or some such, something explaining what it is to people not in the know? Or maybe just saying you're a dead simple wiki and leave the markdown emphasis out, like Dropbox with its no-technical-verbiage thing.

Consider sandbox pages where I can do some quick editing to try it out before signing up. I don't care if the page does not last more than an hour. Please be clear on your pricing, I could not find a pricing page.

When I invite somebody to collaborate, it would be really nice to be able to include my own message. I don't want to have to send somebody a message to let them know that another message will be coming.

Opensource it please!

I initially read the page title as "Simple scribble. Markdown Wikis" and had to do a double take before I realized it's two separate columns.

Very cool, but I need to be able to import/export. How do I know you will be around tomorrow?

As one of the last six users of the original Infogami, this makes me happy. :)

Please don't make me sign up in order to see how it works. Give me a link to a representative "simple markdown wiki."