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.
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.
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".
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)
'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.
Gladly! Automerge on its own is just a library that makes local-first data structures possible.
Ethersync uses this library for a concrete purpose: Collaborating on local text files. We wrote editor plugins and a daemon that runs on your computer, to enable you to type in plaintext files/source code together, from the editors you already know.
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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.
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
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
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)
I hope there are plans to support more OS.
Maybe someone can explain how this compares to other solutions like y.js or automerge ?
Ethersync uses this library for a concrete purpose: Collaborating on local text files. We wrote editor plugins and a daemon that runs on your computer, to enable you to type in plaintext files/source code together, from the editors you already know.
Hope that clears things up a bit.
https://subethaedit.net/