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0 pointshowsta11y ago0 comments

Hi, yes--we definitely want to get a dev blog up and start talking about some of this stuff!

Re: conflicts, in the case of a scalar value, last in wins, and the system (if you consider the server and each client as nodes in a distributed system) is eventually consistent (i.e. everyone will eventually see the exact same state). In that particular case, we show the other user's profile picture and highlight the cell to flag that change so you realize somebody else is editing at the same time as you.

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yourad_io11y ago

Nice. There is probably an argument to be made for a notification when you update something and someone else also updates it and your update loses (i.e. small time difference updates or conflicts + your client wasn't last)

Although to be fair, I suppose "undo" covers this. Can you undo an action taken by someone else? (User A commits "aa", User B commits "bb", User A commits "yy"; Can User A, undo to both "bb" and "aa"?)

Edit to add: Looking forward to the dev blog.

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