How Figma’s multiplayer technology works
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A peek into the homegrown solution we built as the first design tool with live collaborative editing.
When we first started building multiplayer functionality Multiplayer Editing in Figma Today’s public release of Figma contains two long-awaited changes. in Figma four years ago, we decided to develop our own solution. No other design tool offered this feature, and we didn’t want to use operational transforms (a.k.a. OTs), the standard multiplayer algorithm popularized by apps like Google Docs. As a startup we value the ability to ship features quickly, and OTs were unnecessarily complex for our problem space. So we built a custom multiplayer system that's simpler and easier to implement.…
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