Why is tldraw getting more and more centralized/requiring a special license...

I like tldraw as a software but I used to see tldraw having multiple pages in the same canvas and that had helped me tremendously in the past which It seems is now a sign up feature...

I hope excalidraw can catch up too. The more options and the more truly foss options, the better...

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alabhyajindal 3 days ago | parent | next [-]

Sharing a link is also a sign up feature now. Didn't tldraw come up after Excalidraw was already quite popular? Seems like a missed opportunity for the latter since tldraw came up after and was able to figure out a business angle for a similar (same?) software.

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steveruizok 3 days ago | parent [-]

Sorry for the logins around collaboration. I really liked the open collaboration feature too but we were getting some sketchy user behavior around it and my nerve broke. You can still join someone else’s board anonymously though. When you share a link to a board with a friend, they don’t need an account to join the board.

Excalidraw was already really established when I started tldraw, yeah. I was a contributor (the app uses my ink library perfect-freehand!) and still love the project. Excalidraw has done really well with their SaaS app Excalidraw+. I still think the bigger long term need / opportunity is for an SDK product, given that whiteboarding is becoming more of a commodity feature, like kanban boards or maps.

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striking 3 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

> Our 4.0 release includes a new license with changes to where tldraw can be used. Fate and capital both demand that tldraw be a sustainable project, so these changes are designed to help us commercialize the SDK without cutting off community adoption.

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nextworddev 3 days ago | parent | prev [-]

They realized the market is small so they are raising prices