Edits to documents should have a color showing who made the edit

[dessalines]

When collaborating on a document, its impossible to see who made the addition / edit. Other systems like piratepad do this by showing a color next to the editor, and providing a way for those without a sign in to name themselves.

[SISheogorath]

Sounds like a duplicate of #268 and #503
Can you confirm this?

[dessalines]

Yes it looks like they are, but I've never seen the color-coding when testing out anonymous editors.

[SISheogorath]

in case of anonymous coding there is no color-coding. Since we don't store the authorship in the database for guests

[dessalines]

hrm.... that seems like a bad idea, especially if you want to do consistent naming. Just make them an unverified user and set a cookie on their browser.

[SISheogorath]

There is a space for improvements. No doubt.

That's why ideas and pull requests to tackle these issues are welcome 👍

I would say that #268 is a good point to start, since it's not too difficult to implement and it's a good way to understand how guests are currently handled in HackMD.

Providing detailed information who edited what and when needs way more work in backend and is nothing we will be able to implement over night.