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Implement account-based synchronization. #80

Closed RokeJulianLockhart closed 5 months ago

RokeJulianLockhart commented 5 months ago

Per https://github.com/learn-awesome/learndb/discussions/81#discussion-6120922, I see no indication that my "to read" lists, etcetera, shall be available should I clear my browser data, much less how I shall access them on a different installation.

nileshtrivedi commented 5 months ago

Fair point. I will add messaging to make this clear.

RokeJulianLockhart commented 5 months ago

Per https://github.com/learn-awesome/learndb/discussions/81#discussioncomment-8215548, I'll mark this as not planned. @nileshtrivedi, please correct this if you do intend to eventually implement this.

nileshtrivedi commented 5 months ago

This is correct, it's currently not planned.

I would recommend you to try out bookmarking services like https://raindrop.io/ - which are better maintained. The only feature we have that is hard to model with their tagging system is the ability to group related links.

RokeJulianLockhart commented 5 months ago

https://github.com/learn-awesome/learndb/issues/80#issuecomment-1906867177

@nileshtrivedi, I agree - that's exactly the service I use instead.

nileshtrivedi commented 5 months ago

@RokeJulianLockhart That actually makes you the perfect person to ask this question:

Do you believe this project (LearnAwesome) is worth maintaining and developing? If so, why?

RokeJulianLockhart commented 5 months ago

https://github.com/learn-awesome/learndb/issues/80#issuecomment-1907424186

@nileshtrivedi, I'll be honest - I'm not totally sure it is, considering the amount of work you're going to have to put in to the backend, only to seemingly reinvent what competitors like https://github.com/internetarchive/openlibrary.git and https://github.com/inventaire/inventaire.git (and, to a lesser extent, https://github.com/bookwyrm-social/bookwyrm#about-bookwyrm) provide. However, I believe that its interface isn't something worth losing, because the ability to quickly click through a category and find documentation at the speed I can with this isn't something I've seen before.

I suggest ascertaining whether you could feasibly use the knowledge you've gained to provide some better filtering abilities to those projects. Alternatively, if that's still inadequate to provide the same level of immediate user-friendliness which this project affords, maybe strip out the bits someone would want to synchronize with an account (like the to read section) and focus upon this merely being a discoverer for the aforelisted platforms.

I hope I've not been too rambly. This is an impressive project.

nileshtrivedi commented 5 months ago

@RokeJulianLockhart Thanks. Actually, I wasn't talking about the old project which required a backend, but the current one which is a static site. Even this one still requires curating the collection of learning resources. It's not exactly competing with OpenLibrary/Bookwyrm etc because those are clearly about books and books alone.