pixelman32
Over the past year, it's become a lot more stable and I've seen far fewer user reported issues with it. As others have pointed out, it's also a very nice API and very simple to get set up.
The Realm team has also been very helpful in my experience and usually have responded to my support requests almost immediately, despite the fact I'm using their free product and not the DB-as-a-service they recently shipped.
The real issue people have with the way journals work is that they seemingly don't provide a great deal of value. Imagine if GitHub worked like a science journal: You would submit your code to GitHub. They might have someone do a code review or run some tests to assure a baseline level of quality. Then they would lock your repository and charge anyone who wanted to see more than just the readme file $30 - $50. All of the proceeds from that go directly to GitHub. You, the author of the repository, get nothing.
A software developer simply would not tolerate this model, but it's the norm in science.
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