Joplin Cloud vs Dropbox sync

Hello everyone,
I wonder if you have a comparison of a sync peforrmance between the Joplin Cloud and Dropbox.

I wonder if it's worth a switch + sometimes, the dropbox sync hangs (something with probably race conditions on locks) and I'm able to recover from this state by deleting the locks manually from dropbox. There probably isn't such a possibility with Joplin Sync, is it?

Another question, out of interest - is Joplin Cloud popular? I wonder how many users it has. Is it like a garage-based service that may disappear tomorrow or does it contain a decent user base?

Thanks a lot

Eventually I ended up with a Joplin Server that works perfectly on RaspberryPI.

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Ive been using Jolplin cloud daily for a couple of years now and it's pretty seamless. Downtime has been extremely minimal. If it's a garage operation it's a good one. I switched from dropbox and it's a similar of not slightly better experience. With joplin cloud I never noticed any issues like the ones you mention dealing with on dropbox and I do frequently edit and sync from different machines.

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For my 10k notes the initial sync takes a few hours on Joplin Cloud and would take days on Dropbox, basically unusable.

I eventually moved to my own Joplin Server behind Tailscale for even better performance.

Hi, @michal.borek

Another really nice feature that Joplin cloud has that you don't get from any other hosting service or synchronization service is the ability to publish clouds to the internet. I come from Evernote and really missed this feature.

I'm transitioning from a paid version of Evernote to a paid version of Joplin and the savings is about $10 a month.

Evernote has a bit more sophistication but it's not worth the expense anymore.

I don't have a massive database like some other folks so synchronization if I started off doing on Microsoft and testing out the cloud version there's not a problem for me on either platform.

I'm just accustomed to being able to publish notes on the internet and I wanted the ability to do that in Joplin.

There is a way to publish to GitHub gist only they don't dynamically update.

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