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Re: Show HN: A note-taking web app that won't ever betray you

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Post by heathjohns »

Waterluvian wrote: post #6
ex3xu wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

While I'm just hearing about this Edsu project and am not in any position to vouch for it re: future betrayal, I think the specific concern you raised is solved by Edsu by using local storage rather than a centralized repository. A few clicks in, the first line of https://edclave.com/ is: "Edsu makes life better for both developers and users of Online Open Source Software (OOSS). Instead of the developer having to ho…

Local storage feels really quite volatile. It lives on a local disk inside your browser. May as well just use notepad and a file.

You can run an Edsu server locally, but I wouldn't. It's meant to be run on an internet-accessible server - a $2.50/month VPS would do, or if you don't want to run your own there's at least one provider that will do it for you.

Re: Show HN: A note-taking web app that won't ever betray you

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Post by heathjohns »

beatgammit wrote: post #8
Waterluvian wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Local storage feels really quite volatile. It lives on a local disk inside your browser. May as well just use notepad and a file.

It seems the data stays in sync with other places you're signed in, so supposedly you could get redundancy by signing in on more devices/browsers. In that sense, it's better than a crappy text editor on your computer.

You're right about the sync part, but it's an old skool client-server sync, not a peer-to-peer one.

Re: Show HN: A note-taking web app that won't ever betray you

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Post by daliwali »

This is my first time reading about Edsu, it seems very similar to the Solid Platform in one important aspect: it keeps data in the control of the user, separate from applications.

I like how low-level and simplified the protocol is, being limited to only 9 types of messages. Compared to Solid which carries baggage from RDF, this seems far easier for third parties to implement.

The note-taking app is really under-selling the protocol beneath it. What could help sell it better is by doing something better than a centralized platform can.

Re: Show HN: A note-taking web app that won't ever betray you

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Post by itgoon »

daliwali wrote: post #13

This is my first time reading about Edsu, it seems very similar to the Solid Platform in one important aspect: it keeps data in the control of the user, separate from applications. I like how low-level and simplified the protocol is, being limited to only 9 types of messages. Compared to Solid which carries baggage from RDF, this seems far easier for third parties to implement. The note-taking app is really under-sel…

I agree, the protocol looks pretty neat. I wonder what the hold up is on Linux support. I love me some FreeBSD, but Linux is better supported.

The note-taking app seems more like a proof of concept than any kind of category-killer, though.

I'll be keeping an eye on that protocol, though.

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