It warms my old heart when projects use the AGPL (or GPL) licence.
It's a "small" thing to do that tells me that you're not just waiting for VC but actually really care about your work and the world.
(I'm not saying that MIT or other similar licences are used exclusively by people that don't care, I understand that sometimes you just don't have the bandwidth)
In the early days, Zed's in-editor collaboration features were marketed as a key differentiator. I wonder how many Zed users have used these features on a sustained basis.
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dtkav
This is awesome! I've been working on something similar but focused on Obsidian called Relay [0].
I'm super inspired by this. We use yjs with a hub (y-sweet) and spoke topology but I've been meaning to check out Iroh and make the hub into a "super peer".
'missing complement to git' seems to be a great value proposition. However, I think it is still a long way for this to become an alternative to Google docs or overleaf in the context of projects e.g. hosted on gitlab. We have moved many collabotative projects with external partners to gitlab, but the pain point is always realtime collaboration. Having something like this integrates in gitlab's vs code based online editor with a decent integration with actual commit/merge logic would be a game changer in many projects trying to convince people to switch from SharePoint/Google drive to a git based workflow. The local first thing would be just the cherry on top of it all.
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mentalgear
Much appreciate seeing the huge wave of new local-first libraries/tools !
Maybe someone can explain how this compares to other solutions like y.js or automerge ?
This reminds me of Floobits (started around 2013) that offered cross-editor collaboration using centralized servers. It had plugins for Emacs, Vim, Sublime, and others.
xpe
Obligatory mention of SubEthaEdit: "General purpose plain-text editor for macOS. Widely known for its live collaboration feature."
It warms my old heart when projects use the AGPL (or GPL) licence.
It's a "small" thing to do that tells me that you're not just waiting for VC but actually really care about your work and the world.
(I'm not saying that MIT or other similar licences are used exclusively by people that don't care, I understand that sometimes you just don't have the bandwidth)
Zed also has interesting collaboration features -- editing + voice: https://zed.dev/docs/collaboration
In the early days, Zed's in-editor collaboration features were marketed as a key differentiator. I wonder how many Zed users have used these features on a sustained basis.
This is awesome! I've been working on something similar but focused on Obsidian called Relay [0].
I'm super inspired by this. We use yjs with a hub (y-sweet) and spoke topology but I've been meaning to check out Iroh and make the hub into a "super peer".
[0] https://relay.md
'missing complement to git' seems to be a great value proposition. However, I think it is still a long way for this to become an alternative to Google docs or overleaf in the context of projects e.g. hosted on gitlab. We have moved many collabotative projects with external partners to gitlab, but the pain point is always realtime collaboration. Having something like this integrates in gitlab's vs code based online editor with a decent integration with actual commit/merge logic would be a game changer in many projects trying to convince people to switch from SharePoint/Google drive to a git based workflow. The local first thing would be just the cherry on top of it all.
Much appreciate seeing the huge wave of new local-first libraries/tools !
Maybe someone can explain how this compares to other solutions like y.js or automerge ?
Reminds me of Gobby (https://gobby.github.io).
This reminds me of Floobits (started around 2013) that offered cross-editor collaboration using centralized servers. It had plugins for Emacs, Vim, Sublime, and others.
Obligatory mention of SubEthaEdit: "General purpose plain-text editor for macOS. Widely known for its live collaboration feature."
And, as of 2018, is now open source. Looks like it has had commits as recently as 2022: https://github.com/subethaedit/SubEthaEdit
See also a previous HN discussion at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18550649
Interesting -- compatible with agentic systems? Collaborative editing with an AI?
Does Ethersync use CRDTs under the hood for conflict resolution, or does it implement a different approach to handle concurrent edits?
I could see using this for creating ASCII art collaboratively.
Fantastic. Finally, something that can be used outside the browser.
I hope there are plans to support more OS.
SubEthaEdit?
https://subethaedit.net/
two people sit in front of same laptop: solved and for decades
So ,a glorified TMUX?
5 points and 0 comments? IMO this looks like a very well researched project, not sure why it went under the radar.
Having trouble finding plugins … mousepad?