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They don't capture semantic intent that well compared to Operational Transforms when conflict arises.

https://www.tiny.cloud/blog/real-time-collaboration-ot-vs-cr...

Some teams also encountered engineering problems using them.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24186883

Done properly however, they can be magical.

http://archagon.net/blog/2018/03/24/data-laced-with-history/...

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Definitely a tricky problem for CRDTs. A possible solution is outlined in the OpSets paper; https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.04263

I hope that there are existing implementations of OpSets that perform well. I find the solution laid out in that paper to be really elegant and beautiful.

Awesome - thanks for sharing

Ah, I understand. Fascinating stuff - thanks for sharing. Food for thought when considering how to evolve the app (e.g. moving beyond just plain text).

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