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It’s NOT a good thing. I want to own my documents and not have to worry about some cloud provider mining them to sell data about me, or just disappearing one da

• freeAgent 4y ago
  It’s also hard to beat the UX available to native applications that are dedicated and purpose-built and locally processing rather than an interpreted language wrapped inside a web browser constantly communicating with a server somewhere as I type. I really hate online document editors.
• notriddle 4y ago
  How many documents do you actually own, but still write them in a full-out word processor? Personally, if it's just for me, I use .txt files. Word processors are too much friction for personal notes. The only cases where I want sophisticated formatting features are for other people's documents, which means it's their business to pick the format. They don't always pick Office 365. Sometimes it's Confluence, or a company-branded tool that I don't even know what it actually is, or Zoho, or G Suite. Between running some random word processor that someone else picked for me in my browser, and giving it unrestricted access to my home folder (or having to fiddle around to get it running in a container of some sort), I prefer the browser. I definitely prefer the browser over imposing a monoculture on word processors. Not so much because I think there's much room to innovate in text editing itself (I often enough copy-and-paste between web-based word processors and Sublime Text), but because of the opportunity to innovate in the data model.