I love the program and was about to start donating/supporting it. Unfortunately I found Cobian very shortly before you made the announcement in July '24 so I hesitated. Probably like many, I continue to hesitate because I've been patiently waiting 4 months now to see any kind of a decision.
Not as old as some but I bought my first personal computer in 1986 and I've done what I can to support many freeware projects over the years. Happy to do what I'm personally able to do, as I'm sure several/many of us would, and do, but, ultimately it is up to you.
On the "What's New" page:
"Some of these features would take years to implement by myself, but there are some commercial libraries on the market that could be purchased to be used with the program. There are other expenses like the program's certificate that must be renewed, the web hosting, etc that are recurrent."
Suggestion: Create a 'Patreon' and/or 'GoFundMe' page to raise funds for the project.
However, it doesn't matter if the all your out-of-pocket costs are met by donors/supporters if your heart isn't in the project. And that's really what we're waiting to hear. Do you want to continue the project; Yes or No? If you decide to not continue the project then I truly hope you submit the code to Open Source because I'll be jumping on GitHub to see what I can do.
Now to be brutal... A major issue for many of us is OAuth. As best I can tell, it was first brought up Nov 01, 2021 and it still isn't implemented. Given that, I kind of think you checked out from this project long ago.
Not as old as some but I bought my first personal computer in 1986 and I've done what I can to support many freeware projects over the years. Happy to do what I'm personally able to do, as I'm sure several/many of us would, and do, but, ultimately it is up to you.
On the "What's New" page:
"Some of these features would take years to implement by myself, but there are some commercial libraries on the market that could be purchased to be used with the program. There are other expenses like the program's certificate that must be renewed, the web hosting, etc that are recurrent."
Suggestion: Create a 'Patreon' and/or 'GoFundMe' page to raise funds for the project.
However, it doesn't matter if the all your out-of-pocket costs are met by donors/supporters if your heart isn't in the project. And that's really what we're waiting to hear. Do you want to continue the project; Yes or No? If you decide to not continue the project then I truly hope you submit the code to Open Source because I'll be jumping on GitHub to see what I can do.
Now to be brutal... A major issue for many of us is OAuth. As best I can tell, it was first brought up Nov 01, 2021 and it still isn't implemented. Given that, I kind of think you checked out from this project long ago.
Statistics: Posted by tychee — 16 Nov 2024, 06:45