CodePen 2.0

20 points | by robin_reala an hour ago

5 comments

  • danielvaughn 25 minutes ago

    I've been a CodePen user since the very early days. Have always loved the platform. I hate to be negative, but I'm honestly not a fan of the 2.0 release. What I loved about CodePen was just being able to try out something really quick and simple. But the new interface makes me feel more like I'm building a website inside of a website.

  • jjcm 14 minutes ago

    > every pen is deployable

    It will be interesting seeing how this evolves. Any free hosting solution tends to spiral towards abuse at some point. Still trying to solve it for my own stuff.

    That said, I do wonder how valuable something like codepen is in the current meta. I really no longer look at code. I'm not referencing examples, I'm just prompting for what I want / inputting images as context.

      petercooper 6 minutes ago

      Any free hosting solution tends to spiral towards abuse at some point.

      Does it work? I'm a paid user, but set up a new free account to see if the deployment stuff worked there too (as I was linking to it from elsewhere) and it said I had to upgrade to a plan that supported it.

  • jackbravo 12 minutes ago

    https://jsfiddle.net/ used to be also very popular, I see that it is still available, but haven't used it in a while.

    Which other alternatives do people use now days?

  • sakjur 13 minutes ago

    If the owner reads this, I'd consider getting codepen.app registered as a public suffix [1].

    [1] https://publicsuffix.org/