Made a collaborative, persistent state Mondrian-style painting editor. Feedback welcome!

This doesn't seem to work at all for me, but I don't see any error messages in the console or anything... I just see a dark gray screen with an (i) on the top left (with the instructions), but nothing seems to have any effect (left or right clicking, using the scroll wheel or dragging the mouse with left or right click) don't seem to have any effect. The only effect I'm seeing is right clicking on the page shows a "[CLIENT TRIGGER] Right-click at (123.456, 789.012)" message in the console log.

I can see that there's some traffic (for example, I see some WSS on socket.io, and some XHR for /state, /clients, /checksum) but it doesn't seem to change anything on the screen.

Misread this as MMOndain [0] and thought it was going to have to do with the Ultima games

0: https://wiki.ultimacodex.com/wiki/Mondain

Love the idea, silly as it is! What came before, the app idea or the pun?

Does this use the DeStijl manifesto. There were actual rules about how to use color and lines.

Is the website dead?

Awesome! I haven't had this much fun since r/Place.

The ultimate territorial acquisition strategy seems to be as follows:

- Pick a desired colour

- Choose a place to found your empire, ideally somewhere with a lot of large rectangles and a colour that takes few clicks to turn to yours

- Left click tiles to capture them for your colour

- Right click those same tiles many times to subdivide them into areas much smaller. What took you 1 click to capture will now take anyone else hundreds!

By the time I arrived to this it was so subdivided it no longer looked like a Mondrian and someone had managed to write "ASS" in the lower left corner by changing the colors of adjacent rectangles.

My edits disappear either right away, or I can recolor for 20 seconds and then it gets reloaded with the previous colors.

{"message":"Too many connections. Please try again later."} coming from the socket.io websocket. Good luck with the hug of death, and sorry for my spam clicking!

I like this very much. BUT: What I cannot save I do not remember (quoth the Old Guy). Any way to save these images as SVG. (Screen grabs are less satisfactory.)

I can't seem to pan, it would be nice if the zooming would zoom in to the mouse location. (I did manage to write HI near the left edge though.)

merging squares was the most satisfying part for me, but there is a bug sometimes when merging, the server refuses to do it even though it's valid

Doesn’t seem to work, just unclicks whatever I click.

Removing lines doesn't seem to work, it flashes out but then stays in.