(Real lazy to compile the client each time just to do colab work on UMLs)
I'm not sure how that would change much from its current behavior, you can put a random value at the url and work with it, actually, we have used the tool in my team several times.
> Full private mode could be smth one would need to pay for, to fund hosting costs
I used to have an text at the bottom of the page mentioning this, my idea was to get a couple of customers before investing considerable time in developing the tool, there is a lot that could be done!
> (Real lazy to compile the client each time just to do colab work on UMLs)
Do you mean compiling the text into the diagram?
1. https://github.com/ether/etherpad-lite 2. https://plantuml.com/ -> go to the bottom, there is an editor that renders the diagram, collabuml uses such a public api.
I'm happy to provide details about running etherpad if necessary.
> I can put a little backend for this. Not too difficult.
Etherpad is the collaborative backend, plantuml is the uml renderer (there is a way to run a server with this).