Sandstorm-powered “Try a demo” on Etherpad front page

In plain words

Etherpad is a real-time collaborative document editor that preserves authorship and complete revision history. It runs on your own server and gives you control over what AI tools access your documents. Every keystroke is attributed to its author, and users can scrub through a document's entire history character by character using a timeslider. Author colors make collaboration immediately visible. It requires git and Node.js 24 or higher and can be started with a simple command.

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From the sources

Real-time collaborative editing where authorship is the default, your server is the only server, and you decide what AI (if any) ever touches your text. Needs git and Node.js ≥ 24. Then cd etherpad && pnpm run prod and open http://localhost:9001 . Other install options . Every keystroke is attributed to its author. Every revision is preserved. The timeslider lets you scrub through a document's entire history, character by character, watching it come into being. Author colours make collaboration visible at a glance — not buried in a menu. Other editors hide the history. Etherpad's history is the point. Etherpad runs on your server, under your governance. No telemetry. No upsells. No silent…from etherpad.org

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