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Re: Show HN: Yboard is a multiplayer desktop-like workspace based on CRDT

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Why is the talk around CRDTs all about collaborative editing, and less about the more mundane but much more common scenario of multi-master CRUD apps?

Good point. I think this is because it's interesting how CRDT being a solution for conflict merging it's inherently capable of allowing real time applications, even when it's not exactly about that.

Re: Show HN: Yboard is a multiplayer desktop-like workspace based on CRDT

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post #9

Why is the talk around CRDTs all about collaborative editing, and less about the more mundane but much more common scenario of multi-master CRUD apps?

When CRUD is done with a shared spreadsheet (Google Docs, Office 365, etc.) it's a solved problem because a spreadsheet is a total information UI. C = insert row, R = just read the screen, U = type in and other people know where your pointer is, D = delete row.

The problem is when it's done with a database and people cannot see all the information at once. So they cannot see which records other people are working on and coordination is problematic.

A traditional CRUD web app in a shared desktop is a poor man solution that works with parallelism one.

Multimaster CRUD would be the same thing accessed by different people on different computers? 3270 terminals, Windows 95 client/server applications, traditional web and SPAs. I might be wrong but the problem is always who's working on what and how to solve that. Plenty of money thrown to that: management is there also to solve that problem. Talking with colleagues is another part of the solution.

Re: Show HN: Yboard is a multiplayer desktop-like workspace based on CRDT

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Very cool, though not sure why there's a Spotify button and whether you wanted to share your playlist with the whole world in the demo?

Kinda feels like the modern version of Zawinksi's law: http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/Z/Zawinskis-Law.html

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