I wonder if the Matrix protocol can be extended to do realtime document collaboration. I’ve been yearning for end-to-end encrypted realtime collaboration solution via OT or CRDT, I just don’t really have the skills to do the encryption part on my own. The idea would be that the “room” is just a shared document, and the messages are the edits to the document.
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There's a whole community of folks on Matrix focused on experimenting with realtime document collaboration over Matrix - they hang out at #matrix-collaboration:kb1rd.net. It's pretty early days, but https://github.com/KB1RD/matrix-notepad is fun, and if coupled with some of the stuff that Martin Kleppmann & co are up to (https://arxiv.org/abs/1608.03960 etc) it could be super interesting :)
This forum is such a great technical resource, thank you.
People have tried doing document collaboration in a project called matrix-notepad. Though, I'm not sure how active it still is.