I made a collaborative ASCII editor
I made a website for drawing ascii art with other people https://ascii-collab.app/ It's been online for a little over a year so there's a fair bit of stuff to browse if you want to look around (so much that I even made a poster https://ascii-collab.app/poster.png) There are other websites like yourworldoftext that do this but ascii-collab has some extra features like per-user undo/redo, box selection, a color highlight mode to see who made particular changes, and there's admin tools so I can remove spam. The code is open sourced here…
I made a collaborative ASCII editor launched on December 15, 2021 with 53 votes, #942 of 2,707 launches that month and more than 90% of that year's launches.
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ASCII Collab is a web-based tool for creating ASCII art collaboratively with other users in real time. It features per-user undo and redo, box selection tools, a color highlight mode to track individual contributions, and moderation capabilities. The platform is designed for artists and hobbyists who want to draw ASCII art together online, and includes a library of existing collaborative artworks created over the past year. The code is open source.
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I made a website for drawing ascii art with other people https://ascii-collab.app/ It's been online for a little over a year so there's a fair bit of stuff to browse if you want to look around (so much that I even made a poster https://ascii-collab.app/poster.png) There are other…
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