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  • I look at the latest release date. At leisure time, I would also go and check repository and issue tracker to see whether something serious is being ignored. If it’s crucial for business, I would spare time investigating the source code itself.

    I would not necessarily say that many apps uploaded to F-Droid and other repositories are unsafe, because I don’t have all that energy to audit anything I use. What helps me to stay on the safe side is reading into things - enclosed descriptions and names may look like a small factor to some, once they tread the sources, but it saves me both the time and trouble. Sloppily written stuff usually implies a sloppy code, a lax attention to details on the developer’s side.






  • If you have strategically real time collaboration, I would advise against pushing to GitHub and find a way to self-host or use another instance.

    Sometimes, I can’t help but to put GitHub to the side when we speak open source. Not saying that it’s a wrong place to ask, it’s just that with GitHub, as with many centralized platforms with many users to catch up to, outages are not all that nuanced. We’ve been through much of them: GitHub, GitLab, almost the same difference.


  • It is rare that everything app like this has a source code available to public. I’m immediately hooked, as someone who can’t wrap his head around making custom views in Obsidian and its open source alternatives. (For the love of Pete, frontmatters are just too demanding on syntax department!) Fork, stat! 😃

    License doesn’t seem to step on your toes as long as you don’t distribute Anytype in exchange for something (w/ or w/o modifications).