Collaborative text editing with offline sync is hard.

· Bits and Bobs 3/23/26
  • Collaborative text editing with offline sync is hard[be].
    • Offline sync is not a solved problem, and may never be.
    • Users regard the final sync state of even the best algorithms as a corrupted data state.
      • There are trivial edge case examples that are obviously, straightforwardly, "wrong" from the end user perspective.
    • This is as much a UX problem as an algorithmic one.

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