Introducing the Moment devlog

Lies I was Told About Collaborative Editing, Part 1: Algorithms for offline editing

Moment is in public beta

Changelog 0001: Collab editing, infinite whiteboards, bug fixes for code blocks

Changelog 0002: A Postman competitor??

The subtle beauty of Durable Objects, and what could be better about them

Changelog 0003: The winds of change

Changelog 0004: Underappreciated aspects of text editor performance

Changelog 0005: Thanksgiving and more perf stuff

Changelog 0006: Turn any* git repo into a collaborative document

Changelog 0007: Branches

Moment devlog

, Moment lets you turn any git repo with 

 files in it, into a live-collaborative doc, simply by dropping a 

 file into the repo root directory. The Moment Desktop App will auto-generate this file for you in about 3 clicks, if you like.

But real git repos have branches. So, this week, we’re take another step in this direction and introduce first-class branching capabilities:

Branching is not that helpful without the ability to manage and merge conflicts, so as of today we support that too:

In addition to these things, we have been hard at work on general-purpose bugs and improvements:

 One of the longest-standing and most irritating bugs is that the app occasionally totally logs you out. This is for complicated and excruciatingly boring reasons, but we believe (hope?) we have finally resolved the issue.

Massive perf improvements to core editor.

 Many of these changes have been in flight for weeks, but as of today they have mostly landed. Median keypress latency is down by about 70%.

 Particularly, when you edit a collaborative doc that you also have cloned locally, we will persist all collaborative writes to disk.