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Obsidian intentionally patched OSS sync despite CEO's HN statement of tolerance
- menthe 3y agoFor reference, Obsidian CEO's HN comment, seven days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37253639 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37253639 Most notably, quoting his very words: "you should consider renaming the repo otherwise it can be confused for an official tool — that would be my only request". Looks like the corpo drones are at work again - first Reddit, Terraform, and now this - breaking a publicly-made promise, just a few days in. I gotta say, it truly reflects poorly on a business when leadership has no integrity. Who knows when they'll rug pull their community next (who, by the way, contributed 1149 plugins to Obsidian)?
- LinuxBender 3y ago](CEO's HN comment) The comment should be edited as not having a space between the thread ID 37253639 and ]( makes that part of the URL which results in an error.
- delgaudm 3y agolink: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37253639 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37253639
- rvillanueva 3y agoThat’s the second of two items he lists. The first is: “1. it could easily break in a future update to the app”
- kepano 3y agoThe patch addresses a security vulnerability. Obsidian is not stopping people from creating syncing alternatives (there are many that exist already), or reverse engineering the app. See comments in the issue on the repo: https://github.com/acheong08/obi-sync/issues/19#issuecomment-1702926188 https://github.com/acheong08/obi-sync/issues/19#issuecomment...
- processunknown 3y agoI see nothing wrong with this fix. Without it any plugin could intercept network traffic. The response to this seems exaggerated