Bring back author colors
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enhancement
regression
- Dominant language
- JavaScript
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Description
Author colors were removed during the yjs rework.
Bring them back.
Approaches:
- Either use awareness state and have each user announce their author colors and a list of segments they wrote similar to how the user cursor plugin works
- Or use a separate datastructure within the yjs document to maintain a list of authorship
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start by tracing the Yjs rework and the user cursor plugin, especially how awareness state and the Yjs document are used. Compare the two proposed authorship approaches, then define how author colors and written segments should be shared. Done means author colors are restored reliably in collaborative documents.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- javascript
- Domain
- distributed-systems, frontend
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Quiet
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100