> the most important missing feature at the time was that to doesn't show other user's selections unlike many other collaboration tools. That means what you see is not what you're collaborators see. If you grab some shapes they don't see that you grabbed them.
This should work out of the box if you're collaborating. But, we've recently upgraded our collaboration servers and due to ServiceWorker caching it may be your colleague (or you) were connecting to the old one. Try hard refresh your browser.
The text not being attached to the shapes makes it unusable for me.
Also agree on missing some kind of laser pointer and or highlighter.
Re:Why is Excalidraw so good?
by adamclifford84 on Friday November 05, 2021 @05:52AM
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The way Ive worked around that is to group the text and shape together, so they move as one.
The most important missing feature at the time was that to doesn't show other user's selections unlike many other collaboration tools. That means what you see is not what you're collaborators see. If you grab some shapes they don't see that you grabbed them. If you highlight a word or item in a list, they don't see you highlighted it.
Further, unlike pretty much all similar software, they don't connect shapes and text. Place a shape, double click, a text box appears in the center of the shape. Drag the shape, the text doesn't go with it. This makes it super inefficient for most common use cases. People might want to separate the text from the shape but I'd argue that's an exception and should not be the default.