Installed, started. xiki status says it's running but I'm back in my usual shell and nothing works any different. No mouse interaction like in the video. Maybe I'm missing something obvious, maybe the tutorial (Where is it?) or is it an OSX only thing? I'm on Linux.
I started the web interface, used it to hook xiki to emacs, restarted emacs and run into the unfixed "error: el4r-instance is dead" bug.
I stopped using xiki. Maybe I'll give it a try when I'll have time to investigate but it's 2014. There are too many tools battling for mindshare and if something doesn't have a good tutorial and doesn't work out of the box isn't giving a good signal.
I think the opposite is true: If the cultural norm here was to insist on good, simple installation and basic usage tutorials, then we'd see more of them and everyone would benefit.
This doesn't imply that you can't share rough, buggy prototypes. It just means that before you do, it would be expected that you spend more time guiding people to get up and running and pointing out possible pitfalls.
I'd argue that in many cases this doesn't even take that much time and yet is the single most important thing you can do when sharing.
Note: I'm just addressing your general point and not making a comment on xiki's install process in particular.
I started the web interface, used it to hook xiki to emacs, restarted emacs and run into the unfixed "error: el4r-instance is dead" bug.
I stopped using xiki. Maybe I'll give it a try when I'll have time to investigate but it's 2014. There are too many tools battling for mindshare and if something doesn't have a good tutorial and doesn't work out of the box isn't giving a good signal.