Self-Hosting Excalidraw Is Not Really Fully Self-Hosted Without Forking

For a while now I’ve been running an Excalidraw instance on my VPS (with Yunohost). Excalidraw is a virtual whiteboard, and a useful tool to me. Excalidraw is lightweight, and any drawings you make are stored in text format, which makes them highly portable. It integrates very well with Obsidian, with the Excalidraw plugin, by fellow PKM enthusiast Zsolt Viczián. My Excalidraw instance is also used by my company’s team. I run my own Excalidraw instance for reasons of digital autonomy. For single person use it provides that. However, Excalidraw has a collaboration mode, reserved to Excalidraw.com only (as noted in the package description), which depends on two outside parties with control over it. For my company collaboration mode is the primary desired use form, but it must be digitally autonomous to be of actual value. It should also actually work, which it doesn’t on a self-hosted instance. In Excalidraw’s collaboration mode multiple users can work on its canvas (dubbed a ‘room’),…

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