Dear LazyWeb / Editing Twitter:

If I want to have Google Docs style collaborative commenting / editing on Markdown text, what's the best answer?

Google Docs munges the markdown with "smart formatting," and not everyone involved is going to fight with Git.

So far Dropbox Paper seems to be kinda okay, except it doesn't store to your @Dropbox folder and you can't call a Markdown export via API (web interface only, which... downloads a file to your computer rather than ADDING IT TO DROPBOX WHAT IS THIS EVEN?!?!)

Gists on @github are right out. I know git (well, insofar as anyone truly "knows" git) and I still can't figure out how to comment / suggest changes intelligently.

I like @stackedit--it seems promising.

Unfortunately the "how to collaborate with others" approaches "spinning up Wordpress on AWS" levels of complexity: https://community.stackedit.io/t/collaboration-and-user-rights/91/2

HackMD looks like its "comments" apply to entire paragraphs, which makes it super challenging to articulate what should change where. Swing and a miss.

A handful of suggestions for "install this serverless thing" that requires me to maintain it myself. Hard pass; this isn't a science project, budget isn't a serious constraint.