strypey, (edited )
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"The tools of online collaboration are still relatively primitive and often discouragingly awkward. But they’re improving, and I’m seeing glimmerings of hope that in a few years we’ll have vastly more capable systems. That’s particularly important because without better collaboration tools, we won’t be able to take advantage of the ways in which e-books can be truly superior to traditional print."

, 2013 (@dangillmor)

https://slate.com/technology/2013/10/penflip-github-for-books-publishing-needs-better-collaborative-tools.html

strypey,
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Of the tools Dan mentions in his 2013 article on collaborative writing;

  • Poetica was acquired;

"The Poetica system will be integrated into Condé Nast’s proprietary content management platform"

https://variety.com/2016/digital/news/conde-nast-acquires-poetica-twitter-engineer-1201719426/

  • Sigil is still releasing new versions;

https://github.com/Sigil-Ebook/Sigil

  • Wikipedia has WikiBooks, which Dan doesn't mention by name, although it existed since 2003;

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikibooks

  • GitHub was acquired by BorgSoft and is being rapidly enshittified

@dangillmor

strypey,
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Of the tools Dan mentions in his 2013 article on collaborative writing (#2);

  • PenFlip appears to be dead, as does the homepage of the creator;

https://madebyloren.com/

Which is really unfortunate. This project showed a lot of promise, and because is was proprietary, there's no published source code a community project could be built around to continue it.

@dangillmor

strypey,
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I remember being this optimistic about the evolution of online collaboration tools a decade ago. Still waiting...

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