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Teamtype enables real-time collaborative editing of local text files. You can use it for pair programming or note-taking, for example. It's the missing real-time complement to Git!
A project by @blinry@chaos.social and @zormit@chaos.social, funded by @nlnet@social.nlnet.nl and @PrototypeFund@mastodon.social.
Happy to announce the v0.9.2 release of Teamtype! 🎉
Teamtype enables real-time peer-to-peer collaborative editing of local files using your own text editor.
Changelog: https://github.com/teamtype/teamtype/releases/tag/v0.9.2
Installation and usage: https://github.com/teamtype/teamtype/blob/main/README.md
This release adds a couple of new features, read on for the highlights!
We updated our contribution policy last week, which now states the following:
"We do not accept any contributions that contain content generated by LLMs. This also includes all written communication on GitHub. We will close any pull request, issue, or discussion that does not comply to this policy."
@blinry@chaos.social wrote a thread on some of the reasons for this:
Teamtype uses "join codes" to establish initial connections. Currently, they look like "3-gadgetry-brackish" or "7-councilman-crowfoot". They use @magicwormhole@fosstodon.org's default PGP word list: https://gist.github.com/myersjustinc/2cd1feb72fad87c5c28ff8952d6e1469
But we'd like to have something more cheerful, like an adjective-noun scheme with simple words like "3-tired-bananas" or "5-huge-rabbits".
We need at least 256 adjectives and 256 plural nouns! Wanna collect some words with us? Feel free to add to our list:
Hey all! This is the project formerly known as @ethersync@fosstodon.org, a system for collaborative editing of plaintext files!
We decided to rename to "Teamtype" because of a couple of reasons:
- More self-descriptive
- Highlights the collaborative aspect
- Easier to pronounce
- Avoids the association with "Ethereum"
- We got a nice domain :)
- And it's already crowd-validated by y'all (was in the top 5 in our poll last year: https://pol.is/report/r74mttmj5vrbh6c7hm64h)
We hope you'll like the new name as much as we do! 💚
Last month's gathering for working on a "Collaborative Editing Protocol" for text editors was a lot of fun! Among others, people from @hedgedoc@fosstodon.org, https://www.open-collab.tools, and https://braid.org participated.
We will do a second meeting tomorrow! You're invited to join and share your thoughts on interoperable collaborative editing.
🕖 2026-03-26, 19:00-21:00 UTC
🔗 https://meet.jit.si/collaborative-editing-protocol
You can find an agenda (and our notes from last time) at https://md.ha.si/collaborative-editing-protocol
We'll be at #FOSDEM, and give a talk on Sunday in the Local-First devroom! Come say hi!
https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/CQHN8T-teamtype-towards-a-collaborative-editing-protocol/
Our talk at #FOSDEM outlining the dream of a "Collaborative Editing Protocol" for text editors is happening today!
Come join, or watch in the stream! We'll attempt some live demos! 😃
🕐 13:00 UTC+1
📌 K3.201 https://nav.fosdem.org/l/local_first/@3,120.77,269.21,5
🗓️ https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/CQHN8T-teamtype-towards-a-collaborative-editing-protocol/
🎥 https://live.fosdem.org/watch/k3201
Another invitation to our online gathering for a collaborative editing protocol tomorrow!
📅 2026-02-26, 19:00-21:00 UTC https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20260226T20&p1=3903&ah=1
🔗 Online, at https://meet.jit.si/collaborative-editing-protocol
🗒️ Notes/Signup at https://md.ha.si/collaborative-editing-protocol
Looking forward to collaborate! :)
We just released v0.9.1 of Teamtype! 🎉
Highlights:
There's now a Homebrew package: `brew install teamtype`
When you just quickly wanna share or join a directory, you can now use the --temporary-directory/-t flag. It will create a directory in `$HOME/.cache/teamtype/`, use it for collaboration, and clean it up afterwards.
You can set a custom username that other people will see using the --user flag, or set user= in .teamtype/config (per project).
We released version 0.9.0 of Teamtype, continuing the versioning sequence from before.
We also have features and small improvements coming along with this:
- This version includes the `--sync-vcs` flag, an experiment for smooth Git integration. We invite you to try it and give us feedback!
- When updating a number of files, we now trigger synchronization only for what really changed.
- The follow-mode in Neovim was improved.
Find the full release notes here: https://github.com/teamtype/teamtype/releases/tag/v0.9.0
