What just happened ? What happened to the Nextcloud sync solution, hidden so far behind Joplin (OK, i can deal with this one)/ DROPBOX / ONEDRIVE ? I chose your solution for its "libre" policy... now you push proprietary solution up front ?
I'im really disappointed...
Though... thanks for your app which changed my life (for real, for 5 months).
You can still use Nexcloud / WebDAV. Just go in synchronisation settings instead of pressing the sync button on a new profile
Thanks for your answer on such a short notice,
Thing is, your answer is not my point. What you did looks really familiar to me. It's called "enfermement numérique" in French...
Computer are sold with Microsoft Windows installed.... of course you can install Linux,
Windows comes with tons of microsoft apps... of course, you can install VLC, Joplin, LibreOffice...
Smartphones are installed with a proprierary Android... of course, you can install AOSP, LineageOS...
... and so on...
I'm helping people to quit proprietary solutions to discover libre ones. What you did acts against my attempts...
Putting Nextcloud in your "top first access list" would definitely be different : you wouldn't help a company but a whole community...
That's my point.
Regards,
Chrisitan
The reason is that we need to find a balance between libre and usable. For the average user, telling them to setup Nextcloud on their own server is not appealing, so we put forward the free "ready to use" solutions, as well as the one that helps the project.
But I agree I've always felt a bit uncomfortable putting OneDrive and Dropbox forward and promote them, when the project gets nothing in return (we did ask and they never answered), and they are also not good sync solutions since they throttle. Maybe we should review this at some point
As someone that uses one of the more obscure sync methods (s3), I don't really see a problem with this
given that setting up sync methods like webdav and s3 requires some extra tech savvy compared to onedrive/dropbox/joplin cloud, I think that having to find those sync methods in the settings menu isn't going to be the biggest hurdle for getting users to use those methods
Lol,
I don't know much about S3... an Amazon protocol ? Why such a choice ?
I know i overreacted : it's just that i tend to help people through these always more complicated tasks when shifting to libres software.
To do so i may have to write my own helping docs and i'll have to take into account this sort of changes.
Of course i could refer to the joplin's wiki : if the "sync assistant" does not open by default for the first sync, the wiki is still uptodate. Small detail : in this "assistant", the text concerning Joplin has not already been translated (still in English in the French interface...).
An efficient solution for me might be to offer my help to the French translation ? Never done such a thing, how would it go ?
Regards,
Christian
Sorry, i didn't understant the "throttle" thing...
"Throttling" is when a company reduces the data transfer speed between their system and a client when they feel that the client is transferring too much data or too many files, too quickly for their liking.