Real-Time Collaborative Editing

Comments focus on the need for, implementation of, and alternatives to real-time collaborative editing features in web tools, with frequent recommendations of Etherpad and comparisons to Google Docs and Figma.

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spywaregorilla Jun 13, 2023 View on HN

Anyone got experience with the real time collaboration and have feedback?

techsetters Jul 14, 2021 View on HN

Why wouldn't real-time collaboration be useful?

w4tson Feb 24, 2019 View on HN

How about real time collaborative tool? Like a simple text editor that multiple can edit at once. You could easily expand this if happened to solve it with time left over

raooll Aug 25, 2015 View on HN

You can use the open source etherpad it provides realtime collaborative document editing. There is also a version which providers webrtc based video support. Check it out once.

simonw Oct 18, 2023 View on HN

This is a hosted service that makes it much easier for you add multiplayer real-time collaboration (as seen in Google Docs and Figma) to your own web application.

Tichy Jun 7, 2011 View on HN

This is already possible, try Etherpad.

ehPReth Feb 7, 2024 View on HN

Something like etherpad? https://etherpad.org/See https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/hello-hackernews for a real-time demo (works better with more people, I suppose!)

DanielRibeiro Aug 15, 2011 View on HN

It would be great if it gets collaborative real time editting.

zacharydanger Apr 15, 2009 View on HN

Is this any better than Google Docs which has real time multi-user text collaboration?

rroot Sep 19, 2022 View on HN

EtherPad, see this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32896112