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Lies I was told about collab editing, Part 1: Algorithms for offline editing
In early 2024, I began investigating collaborative editing systems for use in Moment ’s core text editor.
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Lies I was told about collaborative editing, Part 2: Why we don't use Yjs
In part 1 of this series , we found that users generally view the most popular collaborative text editing algorithms (including the most popular library, Yjs ) as silently corrupting their documents when the algorithms resolve direct editing conflicts. We argued that, while this is potentially ok for live…