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At first glance, this looks useful but is it being maintained? Their main branch on GitHub hasn't been updated in years: https://github.com/vanila-io/wireflow

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1. Originally, Wireflow was made with Meteor, when there was a way to save data.

2. Then there was a rewrite with React, but not yet a way to save data.

3. Then maintainers did have some other projects where they did spend most of their time.

That brings my questions, are some interested in this kind of tool? Would some like to contribute more to Wireflow? Has some news about other similar tools bring more interest to have Wireflow maintained even better?

Just thinking, as one of the maintainers of Wireflow.

You could ask for feedback on https://discourse.opensourcedesign.net/ where quite some UX designers in open source projects hang out. I personally remember nokias flowella fondly, but I do not know if it does the same as wireflow.

I had contributed the Dockerfile to the project when it was last posted in HN.

Friendly maintainers but I think being built by an App development studio, I can imagine they have different priorities.

I’m a heavy user of excalidraw. I wonder if it would be possible to extend something like that to add “flow” design. It could be as simple as defining the dotted arrow as the view direction, ie. when an element is clicked, show this bounding box, where the dotted bounding box is used to zoom to that level.

You may already do this but if you haven’t, check out the excalidraw plugin in Obsidian: https://github.com/zsviczian/obsidian-excalidraw-plugin

Zslot has put an incredible amount of work into it and it extends excalidraw to have a lot of additional capabilities. You can also use it within Obsidian canvas for some of the flow stuff you mention but you could very likely just use the plugin.

Zslot is constantly updating it too so you get new features and updates almost every other time you open it. Amazing work done there.

And Obsidian is just awesome too :)

On a side note, Meteor always seems like a good idea at the beginning, but I see lots of projects failing with it. It's unfortunate.

Where do you you see lots of projects failing with Meteor? Link?

Meteor has very active development. I have used Meteor for many years.

Seems to limited to me fwict. Likely very basic icons for each step. Might as well just use a normal flowchart

Almost feel like it'd make more sense to merge with another tool, like tldraw

If it got to the point where it replaced the feature set of Adobe XD, and it remained free and open source, I could see this being useful. It took me a while to get the hang of Figma, and sometimes you don't need that sophistication at the very early stage.

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