x3ro / draft.sx

• 👋 Hi, I’m @x3ro
• 👀 I’m interested in Rust, Sci-Fi, Rogue-lites and politics
• 🌱 I’m currently learning how to build small games in Unity
• 💞️ I’m looking to collaborate on (non-embedded) Rust projects 🦀
• 📫 How to reach me: @[email protected]

draft.sx's Issues

Footer shown at top in IE 11

In IE 11 the footer is placed on top of the header. I notice that your version of pixyll seem to be behind version-wise. Perhaps an update will help?

Improve load time/reduce requests

Current load time is kind of horrible with around 1.25s. Maybe that can be improved upon.

• Don't use polyfill.io?
• Merge and minify JavaScript
• jQuery accounts for 50% of the sites payload. Do we really need it? Is there a lightweight alternative (we basically "only" need AJAX stuff I guess)
• When loading with JavaScript, truncate the GitHub API response to the data we need before passing on. Currently everything is being piped, plus the rendered content.

Comments!

Gists support comments. This is the main reason why i would prefer vanilla Gists over Draft.sx.

You could probably make use of Disqus?

I can even imagine enabling comments conditionally via gist description or a config file attached to the gist.

`~~strikethrough~~` doesn't work

Ideas from gistio/issues

Evaluate these nice ideas, mostly by @whit537

• Implement kudos (idan#46)
• put title in <title> (idan#43)
• Add HTML anchors to headlines (idan#37)
• Show number of views? (idan#30)
• Show author avatar if the gist isn't anonymous

Add support for running draft.sx in a docker container, possibly w/ docker-compose

Sub-bullets don't work

sub-bullets

• like
  • this

don't work. Can we please add these?

Emoji support!

🎉 🎊 👯 🍻

Enable "Smartypants" extension?

Since draft.sx makes Markdown gists look great on the web 👍, how about making them look really great?

Gruber designed the Smartypants "plug-in" for Markdown (so it has that level of "canonicity"), and there is a Python extension for it. (I think draft.sx uses Python Markdown?)

Hopefully this would make for a painless, subtle, yet significant enhancement 🙏 😁 to this very welcome service.

Pinging people interested in gist.io

Hey everyone :) I'm pinging you here because you've expressed interest in gist.io, which is currently not working and has only been sporadically maintained in the past. I've created this fork because I like the idea and wanted to keep it alive. I'd welcome contributions in form of code, but also in form of testing and using the site.

@dmd @aboutaaron @nodiscc @jdickey @MarkKettner @BukhariH @shapeshed @programble @antoinelyset @yunga @miniops @clrh @szexigexi @mikejholly @nwjlyons @dajare @gregory @xbelanch @almereyda @lolmaus

Turn https://... into links

Github does that.

Render description to title tag for cached entries

As in #7, but for cached entries

Don't add `No title` header if there's already a level 1 header in markdown

Ability to display markdown files from other sources?

idan#70 suggests the ability to render markdown files from other sources than just gists.

Rewrite draft.js

The JS adapted from the original gist.io is not optimal and should probably be rewritten from scratch.

SSL (via Let's Encrypt)

🔒

Shutting down draft.sx at the end of 2017 😕

Check out the reasoning here

Can haz tables support? :)

It doesn't seem that tables work. Example: https://draft.sx/d1c403c1ab902480c2bb
Works in gist: https://gist.github.com/awalGarg/d1c403c1ab902480c2bb
Markdown: https://gist.githubusercontent.com/awalGarg/d1c403c1ab902480c2bb/raw/75038d676f295122cc6293ebe379ace91aa57e84/tables.md

Would be really nice to see tables rendered as well :)

Thanks for the awesome service!

Provide templates?

E.g. [this resume] looks kind of neat, so draft.sx could have a small list of nice templates which would create a gist that you can then display back on draft.sx. Not sure yet if this is too out of scope, though.

User Pages

RoughDraft has a cool feature where it consolidates your Gists on a "user page", e.g. mine is http://nasser.roughdraft.io/. Maybe a route like draft.sx/u/nasser could work for draft?

Implement OpenGraph / TwitterCards

• http://ogp.me/
• https://dev.twitter.com/cards/markup