Exactly this. It's as if a lot of people think public transport is only for leisure activities...

👍 I think framadate.org is the perfect replacement for doodle, especially when when2meet is too complicated for some users. 😉

Yes, that's also nice. But I'm not looking for an alternative. Instead I want an *alternative interface* to doodle links that I receive and need to fill out. 🥸

And why is my university actually paying for that service...

Given that an initial version of Sharelatex/Overleaf is open source, I'm perplexed that there is not a single competitor around. That's low-hanging fruits! Especially because Overleaf is not really irreplaceable; there is not much data or a follower-base that one wants to keep.

Yes, you're right! I forgot that they squeezed even more, reducing the collaborators to 10 even if you're on a paid plan... I'm a bit ambiguous. On the one hand, they simply offer a good service, so I think it's fine to charge for that. But they're overdoing it, and also in a gatekeeping way.

But I recently took a look at github.com/leouieda/cv and was really impressed what you can do with Tectonic and GitHub nowadays!

While I do see your point, for me the advantage of really being able to simultaneously edit the same part of a latex file with multiple persons outweighs all downsides (so far)... Not to think of instructing other people how to use GitHub for this. 😅

Yep, it's just lovely! And what's best, it runs everywhere I need it: in the terminal, in a Jupyter Notebook, there's even a version for streamlit.

As far as I know, not yet. I think it should become available something like early 2025.

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Medium is the Pinterest of written texts: It clutters my search results, and I learned that it's just not worth to click on the link. On my old computer, I had a script that would completely remove those results from the Google search results - maybe it's time to dig something like that up again...

I was in the process of writing you a reply when I finally recognized your name and that you're in the same building. 🙈😅 But yeah, not being able to have external people is a huge downside.

We're using a Mattermost (open-source) instance that is run by our university. The only downside is that the server is university-only, so we can't have external collaborators on it...