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Re:Why CRDT didn't work out as well for collaborative editin... by antoncohen on Saturday May 11, 2019 @02:00PM (#19887431)
Figma has a blog post about it, they use Fractional Indexing.

https://www.figma.com/blog/realtime-editing-of-ordered-seque...

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Re:Why CRDT didn't work out as well for collaborative editin... by cgrand-net on Sunday May 12, 2019 @04:54AM (#19890869)
Stern Brocot is a better way to do fractional indexing (pathological cases are not aligned with common uses cases like putting something to the front).

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stern%E2%80%93Brocot_tree?wp...

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