- Thanks for dropping this here.
I have been frustrated for quite some time.
I blindly followed the advice to learn some mermaid. Then I discovered that the ecosystem absolutely sucks.
by hackthemack
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- Question for mermaid users out there. I have not used mermaid more than just superficially looking at it but it looks to me like a re-implementation of graphviz? Which has been around forever. Is there something it does that makes it more appealing?
I am not knocking this Free Mermaid Diagram Editor either. Seems decent. But, similarly, edotor has been around forever.
https://edotor.net/
- https://kroki.io/#try
Shout out to Kroki, which offers Mermaid and many other text-based diagramming formats.
- Handy.
I've been (very loosely) trying to get AI to generate diagrams for a while, and even Copilot can't get Visio's file format correct enough to allow Visio to open it successfully.
This is a nice clean interface I can just paste attempts into. Thank you!
by nonethewiser
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- Probably because the official editor sucks after paywalling features and steering you into signing up.
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