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by crooked-v 906 days ago
"Save everything to the cloud by default" is a standard piece of functionality for mobile apps now, not a small side feature.
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Not requiring any cloud can also be a feature, and an important one for an offline-first project.

Saving things to the cloud as an option, or an officially blessed way to auto-export data locally for your own backup setup, is important though.

It's a bit much to require an open source project to deal with the infrastructure to provide that, don't you think?

All reasonable solutions would require the user to have done their part in setting up a nextcloud instance or something akin to that. And then, as the repo discussed, you would still see "oh, the majority don't know that".

On the iOS side, Apple provides the infrastructure via CloudKit.
Given the project's goals, that would be off the table.

Someone could always fork it and add that feature though!