etherpad
Etherpad is a real-time common document editing tool where each keystroke is assigned to the author and all revisions are preserved. It runs on your own server and does not include telemetry; AI can only be added as an optional add-on. It has an Apache 2.0 license and uses an open data format.
etherpad
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Common commercial products in this category: Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams
- With the time slider, you can examine the entire history of a document by character character.
- Thanks to the author colors, you can instantly see the collaboration and who writes what.
- With hundreds of plugins, you can expand the system and support thousands of simultaneous editors.
- ↓ NegativeHacker News
The most surprising thing I've seen in 2009, courtesy of Etherpad
“Cheating is a difficult and important problem, but I'm not sure this solution would be worth the inconvenience it would cause. If it only inconvenienced cheaters that would be fine -- but I think it would also cause some honest students and teachers a lot of trouble. First,…”
- • NeutralHacker News
The most surprising thing I've seen in 2009, courtesy of Etherpad
“"I doubt everyone will abandon their word processing software and user Etherpad." They will probably give up Word for something, eventually. Especially among the current generation, writing is something done online; a blog, an email, a tweet, writing on someone's wall. At some…”