Does anyone else thing the company is Automatic (the bluetooth car dongle) every time they see this company's name?
Automattic open sources Simplenote
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Re: Automattic open sources Simplenote
#22Simplenote was my favorite note taking app until it lost notes of mine a few years back.
I decided to give them another chance recently--hoping that these syncing issues had been cleared up--and Simplenote lost even more notes. It hasn't been dependable at all in my experience, and that's a shame because I love the interface and its focus on simplicity.
I'm excited that parts of it are going open-source. Hopefully the server will be made open so some of these core issues can be addressed.
Re: Automattic open sources Simplenote
#23Does anyone else thing the company is Automatic (the bluetooth car dongle) every time they see this company's name?
The opposite for me – Automattic's been around so long I thought calling the car dongle "Automatic" was a pretty bad call.
Re: Automattic open sources Simplenote
#24I really wish it had an offline mode. This would make an kick-ass NVALT replacement.
I don't understand. I frequently use Simplenote offline and sync without issue when online.
Do you mean that you want to use it without initial account setup?
Re: Automattic open sources Simplenote
#25Simplenote was my favorite note taking app until it lost notes of mine a few years back. I decided to give them another chance recently--hoping that these syncing issues had been cleared up--and Simplenote lost even more notes. It hasn't been dependable at all in my experience, and that's a shame because I love the interface and its focus on simplicity. I'm excited that parts of it are going open-source. Hopefully th…
Just as a counter data point, I've never lost a note and it's been very dependable for me for at least 5 years or so. Still makes me nervous though now and then.
But if you're worried about it you can set it up so that it keeps a local copy of your note library as well, just in case.
Re: Automattic open sources Simplenote
#26I really wish it had an offline mode. This would make an kick-ass NVALT replacement.
As others have noted, Simplenote (in its various apps and platforms) works just fine offline. I work for days without a connection and then it syncs to the server whenever there's a chance.
Re: Automattic open sources Simplenote
#27Unless I misunderstand, this looks pretty much one-way street for me. What's in it for developers? The server's not open source, all this is is just a wrapper around their proprietary api.
The API is "open", the source code for the server running the simperium.com syncing service is not. As far as I know, open sourcing the server is something Simperium wishes to do when it's feasible. Simperium Syncing Protocol: https://github.com/Simperium/simperium-protocol/blob/master/...
I understand that, but I am talking about now. There's no point (other than marketing and free labor purposes, which is what I'm criticizing) in open sourcing their client app when the server is not open source. What purpose does it serve? I mean, how do you expect to use this code other than hooking up to Simplenote?
I remember this company called Layer, they "open sourced" their "messaging UI framework", and I first thought it was something like JSQMessageViewController where you can just take the library and really build your own chat app, but turns out it's just a shell to connect to their layer.com server. Again, what's the point? I can't help but wonder what's going on in these people's minds when I think of all the time they would have taken to clean up code and prepare to announce their open source.
Re: Automattic open sources Simplenote
#28Simplenote was my favorite note taking app until it lost notes of mine a few years back. I decided to give them another chance recently--hoping that these syncing issues had been cleared up--and Simplenote lost even more notes. It hasn't been dependable at all in my experience, and that's a shame because I love the interface and its focus on simplicity. I'm excited that parts of it are going open-source. Hopefully th…
Same here, I would regularly have sync issues. Sometimes I'd see it happen while I was actually in the process of writing still.
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#29Would be nice if the Landing page actually include some screen shots, so i know what sort of App it is, instead of describing it with words and I have to dig all the info up in the blog section.
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#30Earlier quoted context omitted.
The API is "open", the source code for the server running the simperium.com syncing service is not. As far as I know, open sourcing the server is something Simperium wishes to do when it's feasible. Simperium Syncing Protocol: https://github.com/Simperium/simperium-protocol/blob/master/...
I understand that, but I am talking about now . There's no point (other than marketing and free labor purposes, which is what I'm criticizing) in open sourcing their client app when the server is not open source. What purpose does it serve? I mean, how do you expect to use this code other than hooking up to Simplenote? I remember this company called Layer, they "open sourced" their "messaging UI framework", and I fir…
Someone might feel inclined to implement their own server that is compatible with the client.