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Re: Diamond – fast search across all your cloud services

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I agree 100%. That said, the need for something like this almost outweighs the cost. But I so agree w/ what you're saying. That was my first thought—uh—so. much. access. Before I sign up, I'd want to know what's safe, where, and why. And more realistically, why not.

Hey there, happy to answer any questions you might have. Diamond's working to make permissions more granular and transparent with each release. Some quick points: * we don't store the files themselves, only the metadata the service provides (e.g. file names, collaborators, paths) * we don't store service passwords (authentication is handed back to the service itself * we do on-prem installs for corporate customers an…

Hi! Great reply - this is how you earn early adopters trust. At the potential cost of giving away your "secret sauce", I'd highly recommend being as transparent as possible about what you do and what you don't do to people's data. There's a huge need for your service, but as most of the comments here point out - be f'n careful.

> We take our first impressions on security and privacy very seriously.

This statement is unforutnately, NOT how you earn people's trust. Presumably your early adopters are technically inclined. Guess what, they don't care if you say "we take it seriously", they want you to show why you take it seriously. Furthermore, any large financial institution (for example) is going to say the same thing. Sure your sales guy says "we take it seriously", but you're not going to win any deals if you don't pass their security audit.

Re: Diamond – fast search across all your cloud services

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Franz looks like it was an abandoned project; its spiritual successor seems to be Rambox, which supports a lot more services atm. See http://rambox.pro/

It’s not abandoned but the new version requires an account on their cloud service. I’ve abandoned it now because of that.

Why on Earth would it need that for?

Was planning to check Franz out; now I won't bother.

Re: Diamond – fast search across all your cloud services

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It’s not abandoned but the new version requires an account on their cloud service. I’ve abandoned it now because of that.

Why on Earth would it need that for? Was planning to check Franz out; now I won't bother.

For money, and whatever else, it seems. [1] It's a shame because it works well. I asked in their Slack channel if there would be a way to use Franz 5 without that, and was told no. The code has been open-sourced [2], so perhaps someone could fork it.

[1] https://meetfranz.com/pricing/ [2] https://www.github.com/meetfranz/franz

Re: Diamond – fast search across all your cloud services

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Will there come a time when Electron apps are considered native? I'm not being facetious here, just posing the question that if — say — the horrendous performance issues of Electron were ironed-out, or perhaps a similar standard that isn't such a mess, would you consider it less fake ?

Is a Java app "native"? Is Python "native"? Perl?

I don't care in what language the program is written in, I just want it to use my system GUI toolkit. In MacOS it's cocoa and in Linux it's GTK+/qt

Re: Diamond – fast search across all your cloud services

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We actually just launched the latest version of something similar. However Gurn doesn't require you to setup integrations with all your cloud services, we're based around the URL - https://www.gurn.io/

Heads up. There's something wrong with your account creation flow. The "/token" endpoint is returning: {"error":{"code":2004,"type":"ForbiddenError","message":"refresh token not provided"}}

Just remembered I forgot to reply to this, this was resolved just after you mentioned it, thanks!!
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