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This is completely missing the point of GP. You can't (unless something has changed) sync metadata without using their servers. webdav is for the data, not the
by d110af5ccf 5y ago
This is completely missing the point of GP. You can't (unless something has changed) sync metadata without using their servers. webdav is for the data, not the metadata. If you don't personally care about privacy, fine, but that's irrelevant here.
Replicating the local Zotero folder across devices won't properly sync the metadata in the face of concurrent changes.
If I didn't care about privacy and freedom I would have just used a proprietary product to begin with. It's an incredibly disappointing situation to have dragged on like this for so many years.
Edit: Looks like nothing has changed. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29774935 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29774935
- Ar-Curunir 5y ago> If I didn't care about privacy and freedom I would have just used a proprietary product to begin with. You are entirely free to use one of the many proprietary products...
- ylyn 5y agoThe point is that GPC doesn't want to use something proprietary. Lol.
- Ar-Curunir 5y agoOk, but they’re complaining about an open-source project; they can fork zotero and make it point to their own sync server.
- d110af5ccf 5y ago"Just fork it" is dismissive and misses the point. The criticism remains valid even if the maintainers refuse to act on it for whatever reason. Even if I were to invest the time to fork the project, the criticism would _still_ remain valid as long as upstream didn't take steps to fix the problem.