But that almost never happens currently, so I don’t see why adding Excalidraw would change that.
From my experience of making a few diagrams for my posts, most of the work is in thinking what you want to represent, and making it. Not in saving and uploading a file. So I am predicting the rise in diagrams to be fairly small. Maybe as much as 50% more.
Ok, if you are planning to copy and paste existing software, that could involve less dev time. Or it could be integration hell. And the learning curve on it is pretty shallow. Such a feature would encourage more quick scribbly diagrams.
My prediction is that the rise in diagrams would be much larger, based on the following model. 1) Making diagrams is currently not a thing that crosses peoples minds, but if it were an option in the text editor it would cross their minds. 2) Having to save and upload a file is a trivial inconvenience that is a large barrier for people.
From my experience of making a few diagrams for my posts, most of the work is in thinking what you want to represent, and making it. Not in saving and uploading a file. So I am predicting the rise in diagrams to be fairly small. Maybe as much as 50% more.
Ok, if you are planning to copy and paste existing software, that could involve less dev time. Or it could be integration hell. And the learning curve on it is pretty shallow. Such a feature would encourage more quick scribbly diagrams.
My prediction is that the rise in diagrams would be much larger, based on the following model. 1) Making diagrams is currently not a thing that crosses peoples minds, but if it were an option in the text editor it would cross their minds. 2) Having to save and upload a file is a trivial inconvenience that is a large barrier for people.
You may have a point. The trivial inconvenience effects are probably large for some people.