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Does/will Noms have proper support for multiuser sync? That’s an issue with CouchDB.

I mean: instead of syncing whole the database, only syncing the parts that a user has access to, and being able to define those accesses. The standard use case for consumer apps.

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Noms syncs at the level of a "value" not the entire database. Since a Noms database is a tree of values, you can sync the entire db, but you don't have to. You can also sync a single list.

So yes, in principle, we can definitely do this. In practice we are missing some conveniences that would make it a really easy drop-in feature.

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