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by catchmeifyoucan 2098 days ago
Any plans to open source/make a fork of exaclidraw? I love the collaboration features of this.

A core reason I love excalidraw so much is because of the handwritten and cartoony ability. It's fantastic and makes everything look like a draft. If that could be added and ease of use a tad nicer, I'd totally use this over Excalidraw for my teaching scratchpad!

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Hey, thanks for taking a look!

Excalidraw is a great tool and we believe their hosted instance also supports collaboration for multiple users. Open sourcing the project is not in our current plan as we’re focused on iterating and adding more integrations that we think are useful to software engineers based on feedback; however, we’re open to the idea in the future if we have more bandwidth to support an open source project.

Thanks for your feedback on the styling of shapes! We wanted to focus Scribble on building more software specific symbols (and we’re looking into adding more scalable support for even more symbols down the road. Part of that meant reducing the amount of styling choices to optimize for speed.

Curious if there’s anything in particular you enjoy about those styles for your use case of a teaching scratch pad?