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I have lamented the lack of a good online whiteboard experience for decades now. I think the real problem is that for a proper whiteboard, we need obscenely large and high-resolution displays.

Analog is much better than digital in this particular.

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SmoothDraw[1] is what Kahn Academy uses, but it lacks those features you mention. Milton[2] is an open source stroke based application, so you get infinite canvas and infinite zoom. Neither are network-based though and it's tough to beat a physical whiteboard.

[1] http://www.smoothdraw.com/sd

[2] https://github.com/serge-rgb/milton

A little bit "out there" but I've been impressed with 'Dry Erase: Infinite VR Whiteboard'[0]. You get far more space to play with in a virtual environment than you can get on a screen. This would be killer if it supported multiple users over the internet, which is possibly being considered by the dev.[1]

[0] http://store.steampowered.com/app/585040/Dry_Erase_Infinite_...

[1] https://steamcommunity.com/app/585040/discussions/0/14584554...

You might be interested in https://gsuite.google.com/products/jamboard/ though I doubt your company would pay for each of you to have one at home. It's more of an office to office type of thing, I think.

Not nearly big enough, but a step in the right direction.

Whiteboarding is one of the biggest problems working with offshore devs. I am kind of surprised that after all these years there still is nothing out there that works as well as a physical whiteboard.

Haven't tried it, but the Google Jamboard looks pretty nice.

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