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Re: Automattic open sources Simplenote

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Post by lylejohnson »

devindotcom wrote: post #25
hellcow wrote: post #22

Simplenote 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.

"Ditto". Longtime user (of the iOS app) and have never lost a note that I can recall.

Re: Automattic open sources Simplenote

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Post by photomatt »

hellcow wrote: post #22

Simplenote 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…

Definitely something we haven't heard lately. Every version of every note is saved, so if something goes wrong with a bad client you can always log into the web interface and look up the history. If it ever happens again contact support and we can look into the specifics.

Re: Automattic open sources Simplenote

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Post by jleandroperez »

hellcow wrote: post #22

Simplenote 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…

At it's very core, Simplenote relies on a library called Simperium (http://github.com/Simperium/simperium-ios/).

In the past few months / years, we've significantly improved both, it's performance and reliability.

Sync'ing bugs are taken very seriously, if you ever experience any kind of glitch, please: just let us know.

We'd be thrilled to have you back with us!

Re: Automattic open sources Simplenote

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Post by cocktailpeanuts »

Retra wrote: post #30
cocktailpeanuts wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Someone that motivated would be better off building their own client as well. In case of Simplenote, server is the most important part, client is just a thin wrapper.

Re: Automattic open sources Simplenote

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Post by kwonye »

great_kraken wrote: post #28
hellcow wrote: post #22

Simplenote 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.

Sorry to hear! Next time you run into an issue, please don't hesitate to contact support/file an issue on Github.

Re: Automattic open sources Simplenote

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Post by kwonye »

_Codemonkeyism wrote: post #4
jmnicolas wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How are they supposed to make money if anybody can build the same back-end and steal their customers ?

I was using SimpleNote for free, I wasn't aware of a paid plan and couldn't find one one the website.

No paid tier. Completely free

Re: Automattic open sources Simplenote

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Post by beaucollins »

Retra wrote: post #30
cocktailpeanuts wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Simperium Server: https://github.com/beaucollins/node-simperium-server It's in the proof-of-concept stage so it doesn't persist the data on the server.

Re: Automattic open sources Simplenote

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Post by kwonye »

chmars wrote: post #20

I hope that is not bad news, i.e., I ope that open sourcing the Simplenote client does not means less love from Automattic for the software. Search in the Mac version for example has had issues for a long time …

Nope! We just wanted to open source it, no alternative agenda here.

Re: Automattic open sources Simplenote

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Post by chmars »

kwonye wrote: post #39
chmars wrote: post #20

I hope that is not bad news, i.e., I ope that open sourcing the Simplenote client does not means less love from Automattic for the software. Search in the Mac version for example has had issues for a long time …

Nope! We just wanted to open source it, no alternative agenda here.

Thanks, that is very reassuring! :)
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