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Posted by mprazoff
Dec 14, 2017 at 07:32 AM
VoodooPad was a much loved Mac and iOS program - a very easy to use personal wiki. It was the product of Gus Mueller of Flying Meat Software and was continuously developed for many years up to version 5.1. In December 2013 Gus sold the program to Plausible Labs, as more and more of his focus shifted to graphics program Acorn - and his home pizza oven ; ). Plausible Labs made small incremental changes, slowly getting to version 5.1.6. Over the last few years promised updates have not appeared.
Today I received an email from Primate Labs, a Canadian company best known for the well-respected benchmarking program Geekbench, announcing that they had taken over development of VoodooPad. They are promising small incremental updates, hopefully beginning by the end of this year, as they become familiar with the code. They hope to get the program moving forward again and are soliciting feedback from users. At this point, all references are to the Mac, rather than iOS version.
If you valued VoodooPad you may want to provide some feedback. VoodooPad was very simple to use, (especially for a wiki) but had an underlying ability to do more than expected. I wish the folks at Primate Labs well.
Posted by Paul Korm
Dec 14, 2017 at 09:42 AM
This could be good news, though the second time a new owner of VoodooPad promised change. We can hope for the best and contact Primate Labs with ideas as @mprazoff suggested.
The good news is that VoodooPad is not a “was” yet—it still operates very well on macOS High Sierra, the iOS app is still functional—and has had updates this year to keep it operational with Dropbox and iOS.
mprazoff wrote:
>If you valued VoodooPad you may want to provide some feedback. VoodooPad
>was very simple to use, (especially for a wiki) but had an underlying
>ability to do more than expected. I wish the folks at Primate Labs well.
>
Posted by Lothar Scholz
Dec 14, 2017 at 09:59 AM
>that they had taken over development of VoodooPad. They are promising
>small incremental updates, hopefully beginning by the end of this year,
>as they become familiar with the code.
If they make a statement like this in public you can be sure that the
code base smells like a camel with diarrhoe.
Posted by Hugh
Dec 14, 2017 at 11:09 AM
I’m pleased to read this news, although like Paul and Lothar I’m very cautious. As I discovered recently when searching for an alternative, the Mac world is not full of desktop wikis that are competitive with VoodooPad (a fact which ought to encourage the new owner).
Posted by Paul Korm
Dec 14, 2017 at 03:06 PM
Well, of course none of use commenters have or will ever see the code, but I think that’s an odd conclusion to reach.
The fact that the code has survived multiple OS X / macOS updates that have been full of Apple-inflicted bugs would suggest the underlying asset is pretty darn solid, and probably in need of refreshes for Xcode updates, etc.
Lothar Scholz wrote:
>If they make a statement like this in public you can be sure that the
>code base smells like a camel with diarrhoe.