[Info-vax] What's up with DECUS HTNotes ?

[Stephen Hoffman]

On 2021-05-17 23:39:42 +0000, Arne Vajhj said:

> There must be dozens of such products typical based on PHP and MySQL. 
> Independent web applications or WordPress plugins. Some of them are 
> widely used.

Easily.

Outside of some fixes, Notes hasn't been updated in ~30 years. Notes 
has some gaps within it currently provides too, not the least of which 
is a lack of TLS support. Outside of too few pre-millennials and any 
existing installs, the market for new Notes installs is going to be 
negligible. I like Notes. It was a great product for its time. But it's 
comparatively limited for what it provides, and details such as dealing 
with line wrapping gets old.

Off the top, some of the many alternatives:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elgg_(software)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mastodon_(software)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diaspora_(social_network)
https://nextcloud.com
And this ignores the many CMS and CRM packages, which can directly 
replace what various folks have used Notes for.

As for ease-of-use, I'm working with NAS boxes that offer an optional 
chat server, and optional WordPress and Joomla and vtiger CRM among 
various other packages, as well as a wide variety of other services. 
All embedded in a dedicated box.
https://www.synology.com/en-us/dsm/packages

And these options and alternatives before we start discussing 
information storage and information access, among the various areas 
where Notes is most charitably considered to be weak. Though Notes can 
be better than burying organizational information in mail files.




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