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by zakhomuth 5390 days ago
Hey patrickyeon, its Zak one of the Upverter founders. Thanks for the comment.

We just pushed a major update publicly yesterday that had some incredible performance gains (50 - 100x faster). We have also done a bunch of selective rendering updates which make it feel a ton faster to use.

You should give it a try again and let me know what you think! Hopefully we are a lot closer!
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patrickyeon 5390 days ago
I'm glad to hear you're not ignoring performance, but please keep in mind that you're putting a big stumbling block in the way for people who would want to use a similar service. github would've gone absolutely nowhere if they forced programmers to re-type everything into HTML forms, or even into extremely well-written web apps.
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rcfox 5390 days ago
Github would have also gone nowhere if they only supported code written in one text editor.

Most EDA software is written by companies who have no interest in letting you see how their proprietary formats work.

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patrickyeon 5390 days ago
> Most EDA software is written by companies who have no interest in letting you see how their proprietary formats work.

Oh boy, I know it, and it's been a pain in my side. However, EAGLE (lots of hobbiests use it) is migrating to a fully-documented XML-based format [1], and there are two open-source projects for schematic capture, kicad and geda, which would give someone a head start on parsing their design files, at least.

[1] http://www.element14.com/community/message/15751

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zakhomuth 5390 days ago
Hey rcfox, Zak from Upverter here. We are planning to release import/export and an open file format by the end of the month. We have altium, eagle, kicad and geda converters in the works too!
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sophacles 5390 days ago
Do you guys have a plan to make a revision control system here? I really think it would be great to be able to fork projects, look at diffs of projects, and so on. If you already have this, I would suggest highlighting it on the tour page, as I have this suspicion that such a feature would make you guys a killer app.

Other than that, this looks really awesome!

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oneplusone 5390 days ago
We already have forking, both for the current version of your design and previous versions. We cover it on the community tour page.

Diffing has been talked about internally and it would be pretty awesome.

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