• Muad'DibberA
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    4 years ago

    Codimd is the successor to etherpad, it can do collaborative markdown really well, I even use it with wifey to do shared grocery / todo lists.

    It does have a huge flaw tho, it has no permissions control, so if you were to open the doc up to editing by anyone, its wide open.

    This is why using git to collaborate on docs is the best option, here’s one for the List of US atrocities.

    The owner(s) have to explicitly approve the changes, and not only that, you get what’s called a document revision history: the who, what, and when history of a document / set of docs.

    Example: https://github.com/dessalines/essays/blame/master/us_atrocities.md

    • @BobsonDugnuttOPM
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      24 years ago

      Oh that’s really interesting to hear about. How do you make a fully-featured collaborative online document and not have permission control and revisions? That seems bizarre to me…

      Looks like I’m finally gonna have to learn how to use Github, I guess.

      This is a living document, it will be updated as new atrocities pour in.

      oof

      • Muad'DibberA
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        24 years ago

        Yeah, I guess they made it with the idea of only being used by trusted people on a small scale, they really should have built a permissions system that’s better than the one they have.

        But yeah git isn’t too tough to learn, certainly not as user friendly as google docs, but a lot more powerful and manageable.