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Etherpad: A modern really-real-time collaborative document editor.

16 mentions on Hacker News by 13 people: 3 stories, 13 comments · first 2013-04-11 · latest 2025-08-02

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  1. My bet would be that people confuse it with Etherpad https://github.com/ether/etherpad-lite which is quite old stable project so probably not that exciting.
    comment by omnimus · 2025-08-02 · in Ethersync: Peer-to-peer collaborative editing of local text files
  2. https://github.com/ONLYOFFICE https://github.com/dream-num/univer https://github.com/ether/etherpad-lite https://github.com/firebase/firepad https://github.com/prosemirror https://github.com/CollaboraOnline/online…
    comment by ranger_danger · 2025-02-23 · in It is no longer safe to move our governments and societies to US clouds
  3. I remember that I self hosted an EtherPad instance https://github.com/ether/etherpad-lite There was something like that for spreadsheets too but I can't remember what. The only collaborative projects I had to work on were with customers so…
    comment by pmontra · 2024-04-27 · in Univer: Open-Source Alternative for Google Sheets, Slides, Docs
  4. Actually, both dependencies are specified: 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…
    comment by AlexITC · 2023-01-28 · in Show HN: PlantUML based collaborative UML editor is now open source
  5. …there is out there now. [0]: https://jitsi.github.io/handbook/docs/devops-guide/devops-gu... [1]: https://github.com/ether/etherpad-lite
    comment by hardwaresofton · 2021-12-03 · in The Jami conferencing system
  6. …experience as Etherpad maintainer (1.6.5 through 1.8.4) this approach worked very well. For example https://github.com/ether/etherpad-lite/issues/3540 (and the related PR https://github.com/ether/etherpad-lite/pull/3559 ) where deep…
    comment by muxator · 2021-11-26 · in Rust maintainer perfectionism, or, the tragedy of Alacritty (2020)
  7. Etherpad lite is still alive: https://github.com/ether/etherpad-lite
    comment by muxator · 2020-02-03 · in Hey Dropbox, why can't I compare file versions like this?
  8. …It stayed open source ever since. It was written in a mix of Scala & JS. Etherpad Lite ( https://github.com/ether/etherpad-lite ) is a port to javascript, is backed by the Free Software Conservancy and is not owned by any corporation. Yes,…
    comment by muxator · 2019-05-07 · in Open source collaborative text editors
  9. There is also https://github.com/ether/etherpad-lite
    comment by maturz · 2017-07-27 · in Show HN: Skypad – Simple and Sharable Real-Time Collaborative Notepad
  10. https://github.com/ether/etherpad-lite
    comment by blcArmadillo · 2016-10-20 · in Ask HN: Would you use an open source Google Docs style service in your company?
  11. …some easy way to migrate from the old etherpad installations? [1] https://github.com/ether/pad [2] https://github.com/ether/etherpad-lite
    comment by 0x006A · 2015-01-02 · in Etherpad 1.5 Released – Features full pad export, import
  12. The source is available at https://github.com/ether/etherpad-lite
    comment by sheetjs · 2015-01-02 · in Etherpad 1.5 Released – Features full pad export, import
  13. There are many.. https://github.com/ether/etherpad-lite/wiki/Sites-that-run-E...
    comment by Johnyma22 · 2015-01-02 · in Etherpad 1.5 Released – Features full pad export, import