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Comment by taylorius | Hacker News Reader

I think the article would benefit from quickly defining what a CRDT is - (Conflict free Replicated Data Type). Even just expanding the acronym once would give a bit of an idea.

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Ah, I'll put it in as a note in the beginning. You can see a more basic introduction in a previous post I wrote:

https://interjectedfuture.com/trade-offs-between-different-c...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38916647

Here's some introductory material I found helpful:

- [An interactive intro to CRDTs](https://jakelazaroff.com/words/an-interactive-intro-to-crdts...)

- [An introduction to state-based CRDTs](https://www.bartoszsypytkowski.com/the-state-of-a-state-base...)

- [CRDTs for non-academics](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBU70EjwGfw)

- [CRDT: The Hard Parts](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7drE24geUw)

- [Readings in CRDTs](https://christophermeiklejohn.com/crdt/2014/07/22/readings-i...)

- [crdt.tech](https://crdt.tech)

Thanks! Interesting stuff!

I usually just do a quick search on hn.algolia for previous discussions regarding a topic since I somehow imbibe information faster through reading discourse, where different opinions/viewpoints help me wrap my head around a concept faster. Also have noticed the same topic is often shared through different mediums (videos/articles), that also helps, getting curated, diverse content.

May not be the same for you, but just a random observation d:)

Mixture of debating armchair experts.

Sometimes threads will veer off into opinionated fights, but there's something wonderful about the threads where people chime in on a topic and keep building on the content. I often learn something new from those.

That's why we are here!

Should be added 7B to help people make the connection. ;)

Disagree. CRDT is pretty much a word at this point, searching for the acronym will get you more useful results than expanding it.

Without context it’s impossible to know the topic though. Given the audience here, my first thought at the title was something k8s related for Custom Resource Definition Templates?

> Without context it’s impossible to know the topic though.

The topic is CRDTs; of course if you don't know what that is you have to look it up, but that's true for any word you might find in a headline (e.g. Fortnite, looking at the front page).

> Given the audience here, my first thought at the title was something k8s related for Custom Resource Definition Templates?

Searching for "CRDT" gets me at least 3 pages of nothing but CRDTs, and nothing about Custom Resource Definition Templates. So I think the meaning is pretty established.

That Fortnite article still explains what Fortnite is in the opening. "The Epic Games Store will include popular game Fortnite". They're not asking for it to be forced into the title, just somewhere near the top of the page.

There's no reason not to expand it. Expanding the acronym does no harm to anyone who is already familiar with it, and is very helpful to people who are not.

That's why you give both the acronym and expand it.

tl;dr - "multiplayer web apps"

The technical specifics can follow.

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