> the founders are D&D nerds, not competent engineers

The two are not mutually exclusive. What would you trust more than a nerd? A jock? A spod? An MBA?

Any evidence of other examples if bad engineering you can point to, or are your thoughts on the pluggin system and throwing shade at random groups of people all you've got?

[FYI: I know little of obsidian other than planning to look into it at some point as people I know use and like it. I stepped into this set of comments in case there was something useful I should be passing on to those people]

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chillfox 7 hours ago | parent | next [-]

The attack relies on social engineering to get the victim to disable protections and could just as easily have happened with a plugin for any code editor.

Anyway, What I like about obsidian is that it can handle a truly huge amount of notes without slowing down, and the notes are just markdown files on disk, so there's no lock in. I have used evernote, ms one note and zoho notebook before, and had issues with all of them.

	▲	dspillett 7 hours ago \| parent [-]
		That isn't a response to my post, it is a bit of information already present in the thread that isn't relevant to my question followed by a positive review. This suggests that a shill brigade has been attracted to these comments. I suggest you don't do that, it isn't a good look.

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flashman 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

well there was this previous issue in the crypto community where it turned out someone was not a competent engineer and should have stuck to their online exchange for magic: the gathering