A majority of the users won’t use this feature because their favourite software is better in some way.
I’m not clear on what you mean here. It sounds like you are saying that even if Excalidraw was integrating into the LW text editor users would still find their favorite drawing software and use it instead. But that almost never happens currently, so I don’t see why adding Excalidraw would change that.
But I think the delta usability/ delta dev time is low. The software needs to have all the basic features and have a good UI before it starts offering any advantage at all.
If what they said in the docs is correct, it wouldn’t actually require too much dev time. Usability-wise, I’ve found Excalidraw to be one of the rare pieces of software that is intuitive to use out of the box, and doesn’t have much of a learning curve.
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.
I’m not clear on what you mean here. It sounds like you are saying that even if Excalidraw was integrating into the LW text editor users would still find their favorite drawing software and use it instead. But that almost never happens currently, so I don’t see why adding Excalidraw would change that.
If what they said in the docs is correct, it wouldn’t actually require too much dev time. Usability-wise, I’ve found Excalidraw to be one of the rare pieces of software that is intuitive to use out of the box, and doesn’t have much of a learning curve.
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.