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josephgyesterday at 11:40 PM0 repliesview on HN

Early versions of google docs didn't even implement OT correctly. There were various cases where if two people bolded and unbolded text in a certain order, while connecting and disconnecting their wifi, the documents would go out of sync. You'd end up looking at different documents, even after everything reconnected.

I (obviously) care a lot about fixing these sort of bugs. But its important to remember that in many applications, it matters a lot less than people think.