Here are some of many little collaboration details:
(I'm a bit proud of them, but hopefully cool too)
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- You can see offscreen collaborators at the edge of your screen, as well as when their painting to give you a passive sense of what others are up
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- If you change your name and color it'll immediately update your cursor and paint color for everyone else
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- If you're editing your own public space and someone else is looking at it, you'll see them as a spectator
(Private spaces can't be seen by spectators, and spectator paint strokes aren't broadcast to editors)
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- Spaces you're collaborating on show up in your spaces list with the user icon of the original creator. This lets you get back to them, while also differentiating them from your own spaces
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- When someone else drags a card it'll be tinted with their user color to communicate that it's being edited by them. Connection lines that are selected by other users will jiggle
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- Creating connections is also real-time. You can see lines and labels as they're being created
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The sum of all these little touches is to make collaboration feel like a natural part of using Kinopio – rather than as a fancy "big deal". Eventually I'll blissfully forget all this hard work too.
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These details are fantastic. Great work!