Great job, Sarah, for summarizing the phase 3 roadmap in your post.

While reading about the collaboration roadmap and related comments in WordPress, I would like to express my thoughts on this topic.

I’m thrilled about the collaboration features that will be available within WordPress, as it will save a lot of time for publishers who work collaboratively with large teams. It will also provide more control over the publishing workflow for smaller teams.

My team and I have been working on developing collaboration features for the past few years with Multicollab. It’s a complex technical and design challenge, but we have made significant progress. However, there is still a lot of work to be done. For those interested in the tech stack, we are utilizing WebSockets and React, and we have forked the Yjs framework library (https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/pull/23129) to build a real-time co-editing feature. We have tested this on one server with 20+ real users, and the results have been promising.

You can try a real-time editing demo in WordPress here (https://multiedit.multicollab.com/). And learn more about other collaboration features we have built here (https://www.multicollab.com/features/).