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Hi folks! Author here. Happy to answer questions or take feedback. I'll be in meetings for an hour or two but I love talking about this stuff. :) Here or over e

by antics 2y ago

Hi folks! Author here. Happy to answer questions or take feedback. I'll be in meetings for an hour or two but I love talking about this stuff. :) Here or over email if you prefer, alex@moment.dev

jakevoytko 2y ago
If you keep the offline support, you'll eventually uncover even more fun cases. "I started working on this on an airplane where the wifi was down. But then decided I didn't like the direction it was going and just closed the laptop and took a nap. I spent the next few days working on the document on my desktop. Over the weekend I opened the doc on my laptop and now all of my airplane changes are in the doc and everything is garbled. Help, I didn't mean to merge them!" Git would never automatically mash your local changes in without your explicit consent. bzr would never have dreamed of it. But things like Google Docs will happily do it. It's awesome to see all the progress y'all have made! Good luck with early access!
- antics 2y ago
  Hi Jake! Long time no chat! I hope everything is going well. Yep, those are exactly the kinds of cases we seek to give people more control over. It's like you read my mind. :)
mike_hearn 2y ago
What's the problem with just adopting patch/diff style merging? I mean, offline collaborative text editing is a solved problem for decades if you're going to phrase it as just a UX optimization problem.
- antics 2y ago
  I'm not sure I understand the question fully, but yes, I am a big fan of the diff/review/patch-style tools like git for offline editing, and that is exactly why I call them out in the final paragraphs. The reason I don't agree that it's completely closed-book solved is because I think the git diff UI is not appropriate for most people whoa re not developers.
  - mike_hearn 2y ago
    Not the exact git GUI, but bear in mind Word has supported offline edit/merge for decades and it's done in a similar way (you see diffs visually and can accept/reject them). Lawyers depend on that workflow heavily.

by antics 2y ago

Hi folks! Author here. Happy to answer questions or take feedback. I'll be in meetings for an hour or two but I love talking about this stuff. :) Here or over email if you prefer, alex@moment.dev

jakevoytko 2y ago

If you keep the offline support, you'll eventually uncover even more fun cases. "I started working on this on an airplane where the wifi was down. But then decided I didn't like the direction it was going and just closed the laptop and took a nap. I spent the next few days working on the document on my desktop. Over the weekend I opened the doc on my laptop and now all of my airplane changes are in the doc and everything is garbled. Help, I didn't mean to merge them!" Git would never automatically mash your local changes in without your explicit consent. bzr would never have dreamed of it. But things like Google Docs will happily do it. It's awesome to see all the progress y'all have made! Good luck with early access!

antics 2y ago
Hi Jake! Long time no chat! I hope everything is going well. Yep, those are exactly the kinds of cases we seek to give people more control over. It's like you read my mind. :)

mike_hearn 2y ago

What's the problem with just adopting patch/diff style merging? I mean, offline collaborative text editing is a solved problem for decades if you're going to phrase it as just a UX optimization problem.

antics 2y ago
I'm not sure I understand the question fully, but yes, I am a big fan of the diff/review/patch-style tools like git for offline editing, and that is exactly why I call them out in the final paragraphs. The reason I don't agree that it's completely closed-book solved is because I think the git diff UI is not appropriate for most people whoa re not developers.
- mike_hearn 2y ago
  Not the exact git GUI, but bear in mind Word has supported offline edit/merge for decades and it's done in a similar way (you see diffs visually and can accept/reject them). Lawyers depend on that workflow heavily.