> nowadays you want to have information from other computers.

Do I? What sort of information ...

> shared calendars

OK yes that would be a valid use, I can imagine some stressed executive with no signal in a tunnel wanting to change some planned event, but also to have the change superceded by an edit somebody else makes a few minutes later.

> the weather

But I don't usually edit the weather forecast.

> a social media entry

So ... OK ... because it's important that my selfie taken in a wilderness gets the timestamp of when I offline-pretend-posted it, instead of when I'm actually online and can see replies? Why is that? Or is the idea that I should reply to people offline while pretending that they can see, and then much later when my comments actually arrive they're backdated as if they'd been there all along?

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bluGill 4 days ago | parent | next [-]

Nearly everything I do is on a shared computer.

At work: I write code, which is in version control. I write design documents (that nobody reads), and put them on a shared computer. I write presentations (you would better off sleeping through them...) and put them on a share computer. Often the above are edited by others.

Even at home, my grocery list is shared with my wife. I look up recipes online from a shared computer. My music (that I ripped from CDs) is shared with everyone else in the house. When I play a game I wish my saved games were shared with other game systems (I haven't had time since I had kids, more than 10 years ago). When I take notes about my kid's music lessons they are shared with my wife and kids...

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raincole 4 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

> offline-pretend-posted

It's a far, far more complicated mental model than simply posting it. It'd be a huge barrier for normal users (even tech-savvy users, I'd say). People want to post it online and that's it. No one wants an app what requires its users to be aware of syncing state constantly unless they really have no choice. We pretend we can step on gas instead of mixing the gas with air and ignite it with a spark plug until we need to change the damn plug.

	▲	dundarious 4 days ago \| parent [-]
		Email clients had the outbox that was local only and then you pushed to send them all. Hiding the outbox is why some of these things seem fiddly to use, despite being conceptually very simple. This model would seem to work very well at least for non-collaborative changes like IG posts.

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tetralobita 4 days ago | parent | prev [-]

in our company some team is trying to solve offline selling items dropping from stock, when become offline it syncs, there are price and stock changes to be sync.