Why we parted ways with Grammarly (and you should too) (opens in new tab)

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17 pointsjmedwards8y ago7 comments

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I hope the post is fair. Let me know if it isn’t. Our goal is to explain the situation to our customers, and help make other teams aware that their apps may be suffering similar issues.

theblacktaxi8y ago

Hey Jamie, my name is Sergey and I'm a developer for the Grammarly extension. Sorry to see you had so much trouble with Grammarly! That definitely wasn't our intention – quite the contrary.

Thanks to your debugging video pinpointing the issue, we have been able to fix it. There was a bug where Grammarly would try to poke nodes outside of the input field in certain cases. It should be fixed now in the latest version of Grammarly for Chrome – please check it out and let me know if it helped.

0xADADA8y ago

Sergey, I'm also running into this. Is there a way to prevent grammarly from running on our app from the code? An a css class, or <meta> tag we can add to opt-out?

jgwhite8y ago

Fantastic. Thanks so much Sergey!

Can’t wait to let our customers know :)

codepodu8y ago

I've been in touch with Grammarly as well [1]. I work for a publishing platform with thousands of writers, editors and contributors. It was very difficult to tell people they can't use Grammarly :/

[1] https://github.com/facebook/draft-js/issues/616#issuecomment...

0xADADA8y ago

Holy crap, i just got our first bug report about this exact same problem, Ember 2.14.

jgwhite8y ago

The latest version of the Grammarly extension resolved the problem entirely for us. Hope it does the same for you!

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7 comments

jgwhite8y ago

I hope the post is fair. Let me know if it isn’t. Our goal is to explain the situation to our customers, and help make other teams aware that their apps may be suffering similar issues.

theblacktaxi8y ago

Hey Jamie, my name is Sergey and I'm a developer for the Grammarly extension. Sorry to see you had so much trouble with Grammarly! That definitely wasn't our intention – quite the contrary.

0xADADA8y ago

Sergey, I'm also running into this. Is there a way to prevent grammarly from running on our app from the code? An a css class, or <meta> tag we can add to opt-out?

jgwhite8y ago

Fantastic. Thanks so much Sergey!

Can’t wait to let our customers know :)

codepodu8y ago

I've been in touch with Grammarly as well [1]. I work for a publishing platform with thousands of writers, editors and contributors. It was very difficult to tell people they can't use Grammarly :/

[1] https://github.com/facebook/draft-js/issues/616#issuecomment...

0xADADA8y ago

Holy crap, i just got our first bug report about this exact same problem, Ember 2.14.

jgwhite8y ago

The latest version of the Grammarly extension resolved the problem entirely for us. Hope it does the same for you!

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