pad

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Author

Tobias Bengfort <tobias.bengfort@posteo.de>

Date

2020-05-03 15:25

add README

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   -1     1 When etherpad came out in 2008 it quickly became an indispensable tool for all
   -1     2 kinds of situations. Since then many have tried to recreate this magical tool
   -1     3 but few have succeeded.
   -1     4 
   -1     5 In my opinion, most of these projects suffer from too much complexity. But this
   -1     6 one is different. This project concentrates on:
   -1     7 
   -1     8 -	**Plain text**. No syntax highlighting, markdown preview, image upload, PDF
   -1     9 	export, WYSIWYG tools. Just a single textarea.
   -1    10 -	**Manual conflict resolution**. No advanced operational transforms, no
   -1    11 	eventual consistency. In practice, conflicts are rare and even sophisticated
   -1    12 	algorithms are not doing a stellar job.
   -1    13 -	**Real time collaboration**. No database, no persistence (for now at least).
   -1    14 
   -1    15 So this is ~170 lines of javascript code backed by a
   -1    16 [via](https://github.com/xi/via) server. A demo is available at
   -1    17 <https://pad.ce9e.org/>.