| ▲ | pityJuke 5 hours ago | |
As someone who has used Anki for a decade, a thank you to dae for everything. Best of luck in your future endeavours. With that out of the way, some thoughts: - Anki is in a really good position to work around enshitification. The app, at least to me, is "complete" - the only additional features that might pique my curiosity is a different scheduler (at the moment, they're integrating a newer one, although I don't follow enough to know the state of it). Additionally, modern Anki is really well architected: the core of it is a Rust library, that is used by all of the platforms [0]. You can write new front ends using that, or just fork the existing FOSS ones. Maybe dae does a gorhill and gives us Anki Origin. - Really the only service-y part of Anki I use is AnkiWeb, which is basically a backup and sync system. Wonder how that'll evolve (if they do end up charging for it, I hope it is "Obsidian" reasonable). EDIT: Ooo, Anki has public server software for running your own version. Awesome! [1] - The idea outcome in my opinion would have been some form of charitable organisation (Linux Foundation?), with people donating to support Anki. - So, AnkiHub is a company that produces Anki flashcards, and they've scaled that quickly? Jeez. Obviously Quizlet proved there was a market for flashcards, but I didn't realise this was possible for Anki. - No outside investment is... hopeful. Not quite sure what indicates that this company has the technical know-how to maintain it. - I've heard too many stories of a maintainer or creative being "hopeful" about their new acquirers, only to regret it years down the line. | ||