Physical Whiteboards Preference

Users discuss and advocate for traditional physical whiteboards over digital alternatives for collaboration, sketching diagrams, coding interviews, and teaching, often comparing them favorably to chalkboards or software tools.

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Sample Comments

sparkzilla Jun 20, 2014 View on HN

Who needs a board when you've got a whiteboard!

forty Mar 31, 2024 View on HN

Absolutely, it's very convenient when working on a whiteboard :)

dogredfly Feb 19, 2021 View on HN

How is this different from other whiteboards?

maxxxxx Aug 16, 2017 View on HN

Not really. A big whiteboard is still much better. It's surprising to me that this hasn't been solved a long time ago.

edblarney Mar 15, 2017 View on HN

There's nothing wrong with white-boards, it's how they are used that matters.

ornitorrincos Dec 13, 2017 View on HN

to be honest, the greatest improvement over chalkboards are whitebooards, you can write freely, no need of computers, multiple people, and no damn dust

saghm Feb 20, 2023 View on HN

How is it at writing physically on a whiteboard?

TeMPOraL May 21, 2012 View on HN

Shouldn't this be a problem with whiteboards/blackboards as well?

barrenko May 28, 2025 View on HN

Whiteboard (blackboard etc.) is life.

Will_Parker Jun 6, 2017 View on HN

Notice how it's a whiteboard and not a board of colour.