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Re:Offline Is Just Online with Extreme Latency by giantrobot on Wednesday April 19, 2023 @02:20PM (#35631494)
Online-only collaboration systems already have to do this. The local view has to synchronize state between other local views and the canonical version on the server. Offline changes are online edits with high latency.
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Re:Offline Is Just Online with Extreme Latency by danenania on Wednesday April 19, 2023 @02:47PM (#35631813)
Yes, but the problem gets much harder to resolve the longer you allow client states to diverge.
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