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Your post got me intrigued, but I couldn't get any multiplayer to work. Does it only work when signed in?

I think it is cool to offer some functionality to guest users, however they should make it clearer what the limitations are so that people evaluating it get a good sense for the features.

I even created an account, which changed my repl to "anyone can edit" to "forks on edit" apparently? But still no multiplayer?

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We're working to make the UX a lot better. For now just click "share" (you have to be signed in) and share the "join" link.

Here is a tutorial: https://docs.repl.it/tutorials/05-pair-programming-using-mul...

I am signed in.

Multiplayer URLs have “join-“ in the path, and are available from the “share” button in the top left.

It would be very handy (and intuitive) if all REPLs were a live read-only window on what the owner was typing. The reload-page-to-get-latest-version thing works, but multiplayer is there and awesome so it seems odd to hide it with a different type of URL that looks almost identical to the regular read-only fork-on-edit one.

You're absolutely right! The UX could be so much better where every repl is live and you can request to edit. Working on that.

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