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Life & fun · January 4, 2018

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Conclave, a decentralized, real-time, collaborative text editor

A private and secure real-time collaborative text editor

Conclave, a decentralized, real-time, collaborative text editor launched on January 4, 2018 with 22 votes, #929 of 3,021 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 8 years on.

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In plain words

Conclave is a peer-to-peer, real-time collaborative text editor built in JavaScript that allows multiple users to edit documents simultaneously. It functions as a private alternative to Google Docs, enabling secure collaboration without reliance on centralized servers. The tool is designed for anyone needing to work on shared documents with privacy and decentralization as core features.

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From the sources

Conclave is a peer-to-peer, real-time, collaborative text editor built from scratch in JavaScript. Intrigued by collaborative text editors such as Google Docs, we set out to build our own. This case study walks you through our journey from the initial idea to our research of current academic literature and finally to our design and implementation of the final product. First, let’s start by reviewing what we mean by text editor. A text editor is a space where you can insert or delete text characters and then save the resulting text to a file. Each character has a value and a numerical index that determines its position in the document. For example, with the text “HAT”, the first character…from conclave-team.github.io

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