Discourse Shared Edits

[sam (Sam Saffron)]

	Summary	Discourse Shared Edits allows multiple users to collaboratively edit posts in real time. This feature is default disabled and must be enabled explicitly by moderators on posts.
	Repository Link	https://github.com/discourse/discourse-shared-edits
	Install Guide	How to install plugins in Discourse

As this is an experimental plugin maintained by the Discourse team, support, bug, ux, and feature requests can be made in the respective categories here on Meta, and tagged with the appropriate plugin tag. Click on a link below to get one started.

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Features

Moderators (including TL4) can toggle shared edits on a topic (red) via the gear icon on the composer bar. Note that the plugin does not enable edit access per se. This means that if you want non-moderators to be able to collaboratively edit the post you must also make the post a Wiki (green, optional):

Once toggled edits are collaborative. You’ll notice the button in the bottom left is now marked ‘Done’ is it is continuously saved in real time.

Configuration

This plugin has a single site setting shared_edits_enabled it is default enabled after it is installed

You might like to also install this Theme Component to give you more control of the appearance of Shared Edits posts:

Wikified Posts Component

Simple Description This theme component enables you to make Wiki posts (and Shared Edits posts) more obvious. Wikis and Shared Edits are a powerful feature of Discourse, but many users are unfamiliar with the concept and find the UI just a bit too subtle. This component makes it crystal clear, packaging the content from How to change the style of a Wiki post. Screenshots [image] Detailed Description Installing this component enables you to control the background colour of Wiki posts, an…

TODO

• Currently there is a ~10 second delay prior to updating the posts in the stream. It would be nice if this updated live just like it does in the composer.

• Displaying multiple cursors would be nice, it would mean we need to replace the textarea with a contenteditable control or ace.

• Allow non-TL4 members to turn on Shared Edits - see this

• Migrate to CRDT which generally can work a bit better than OT.

This plugin was inspired by @gdpelican’s collude but is a complete re-write so it fits better into the current Discourse designs.