My bet would be that people confuse it with Etherpad https://github.com/ether/etherpad-lite which is quite old stable project so probably not that exciting.

Looks like we put it in the second-chance pool (https://news.ycombinator.com/pool, explained at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26998308), so it got a random placement on HN's front page a couple days later...where it happily resides for the time being.

If anyone is confused by the relativized timestamps, there are explanations here: About the timestamps, there are past explanations here: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que....