Re:Wallabag: Self-hostable application for saving web pages ...
by southerntofu on Tuesday February 22, 2022 @06:04AM
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It looks like raindrop is a for-profit company which does not publish source code under a free license, or at least i could not find it on the homepage. In comparison, wallabag is fully free software: you can self-host it, or you can have a commercial contract with the maintainers to host it for you. In both cases, you can donate money for development.
To be fair, wallabag is also mostly maintained by a single person. However, there's a wide community so it's unlikely the software would go unmaintained if a bus accident occurred. I must admit i have no idea about the "hosted" side of things and if the maintainer has a backup plan for someone to take over in case they're not available.
The main developer publishes regularly about the finances of the project and the economic sustainability of free-software. The last update was only available in french though: https://nicolas.loeuillet.org/billets/2022/01/03/wallabagit-...
To be fair, wallabag is also mostly maintained by a single person. However, there's a wide community so it's unlikely the software would go unmaintained if a bus accident occurred. I must admit i have no idea about the "hosted" side of things and if the maintainer has a backup plan for someone to take over in case they're not available.