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by maxbond 1293 days ago
This is a common artifact of operational transforms I believe. Etherpad launched in 2008; CRDTs were proposed in 2011. AFAIK Etherpad used (uses?) OT.

Open to correction though, it's been a while since I dug into the differences in these approaches & my memory is imperfect.