What would happen

[Timeagainagain]

What would happen if the developer of Joplin notes shut down or stopped making the app and it was removed from the app stores, would someone else develop the app and continue to offer it in the app stores?

[cyr06]

My best answer

Laurent Cozic is creating Joplin, a note-taking & to-do app with sync...

[laurent]

@Timeagainagain, could you please make your post titles shorter? Also this question has been asked timeandagainandagain so please search the forum first.

[Jerry]

Sorry to ask but I didn't find the old topic.

[johnny]

Laurent has answered this more or less here:

Notion is like an affair, Joplin is suitable for a lifetime

I think this kind of catastrophic scenario can only happen if an app becomes completely discontinued, and no-one is able to upgrade it anymore. That happens, but currently the project is active and healthy and I plan to continue improving it for quite some time. I personally use it and there’s no alternative I like, so I’ve got a strong incentive to keep it working. There’s also more and more contributors familiar with the code base, which reduces the bus factor. Also note that there’s the core…

[dpoulton]

And here ...

Support Laurent. Really. Do it now

Thank for your support @t0dd, much appreciated! I think the bus factor in this project is not too high since there are several admins with full access to the GitHub repo for instance and to the forum too. For admins it's also possible to push desktop and CLI releases to CI. So even if I suddenly vanish, the important parts of the project should still be accessible Did you know Joplin doesn’t have a Wikipedia article? I plan to fix that. I will update this discourse topic once i…