I use excalidraw to manage my diagrams for my blog

A dev just turbo‑charged their blog workflow by forking an Excalidraw editor add‑on so every framed doodle auto‑exports into light and dark SVGs. Translation: draw once, get clean images instantly, no more click‑fest. The crowd? Loud and split. One early heckle goes full tabloid: “Should be Show HN” — internet‑speak for “this reads like a promo,” not a personal write‑up. Cue the ad vs. rad debate.

Fans pile in saying Excalidraw simply feels better than old‑school diagram tools, with one calling its built‑in styles “just right.” On the other side, the Font Police crash the party: a commenter declares the default typeface “ugly, childish and inaccessible,” sparking micro‑drama about aesthetics over features. Meanwhile, the pragmatists shrug and say they just take screenshots and paste into Obsidian (a popular notes app) — no automation needed, thanks.

Then the futurists arrive with AI spice: someone plugs an Excalidraw “MCP app” that lets large language models draft diagram scaffolds — cool idea, but they warn it’s early and wobbly (link). Another notes Excalidraw exploded at work once people got access to Claude Code (an AI coding assistant). So the vibe is pure internet: is this a clever time‑saver, a stealth ad, or the start of AI‑drawn diagrams everywhere? Either way, the font takes are scorching and the screenshots‑only crowd is not budging.