Ethersync: Peer-to-peer collaborative editing of local text files
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Re: Ethersync: Peer-to-peer collaborative editing of local text files
#25 points and 0 comments? IMO this looks like a very well researched project, not sure why it went under the radar.
Re: Ethersync: Peer-to-peer collaborative editing of local text files
#35 points and 0 comments? IMO this looks like a very well researched project, not sure why it went under the radar.
My bet would be that people confuse it with Etherpad https://github.com/ether/etherpad-lite which is quite old stable project so probably not that exciting.
Re: Ethersync: Peer-to-peer collaborative editing of local text files
#4Having trouble finding plugins … mousepad?
Re: Ethersync: Peer-to-peer collaborative editing of local text files
#55 points and 0 comments? IMO this looks like a very well researched project, not sure why it went under the radar.
Looks like we put it in the second-chance pool (https://news.ycombinator.com/pool, explained at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26998308), so it got a random placement on HN's front page a couple days later...where it happily resides for the time being.
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Re: Ethersync: Peer-to-peer collaborative editing of local text files
#6This reminds me of Floobits (started around 2013) that offered cross-editor collaboration using centralized servers. It had plugins for Emacs, Vim, Sublime, and others.
Re: Ethersync: Peer-to-peer collaborative editing of local text files
#7Zed 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.
Re: Ethersync: Peer-to-peer collaborative editing of local text files
#8Obligatory 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
Re: Ethersync: Peer-to-peer collaborative editing of local text files
#9Zed 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.
Honestly I don't see the value in multiplayer on its own. Where it becomes interesting is when a tool like Zed makes it easy for extension authors to do multiplayer. Let everyone else build the experiences, and let the tool provide the APIs.
Re: Ethersync: Peer-to-peer collaborative editing of local text files
#10This 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