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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. |
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Repository Link | https://github.com/discourse/discourse-shared-edits |
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Install Guide | How to install plugins in Discourse |
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
shared edits enabled: to enable or disable the featureshared edits editor mode: markdown or rich editing (mixed is not supported)shared edits commit delay seconds: how many seconds before post is saved in the database as a revision.
You might like to also install this Theme Component to give you more control of the appearance of Shared Edits posts:
TODO
- Allow non-TL4 members to turn on Shared Edits - see this
This plugin was inspired by @gdpelican’s collude but is a complete re-write so it fits better into the current Discourse designs.