Easier to get features you didn’t even consider, shared testing and bug finding, and shared maintenance burden.

You even shared your code like you where inviting all of those things…

maybe a good reason but definitely the first questions I had.

i did this for a good while. Obsidian did great.

i only migrated to mealie because I wanted a better way to share recipes in my household and quickly share them with a shared tablet in the kitchen. Needed to get it out of my personal docs.

I also kinda liked the ability import from url which saves a good 10min transcribing and cleaning up in markdown. Not that i still dont have to cleanup recipes, just it starts in a better place so its quicker.

if only there was a software concept that anticipated this and gave you the ability to own and modify your software…

the article is confusing. i don’t know if I’m missing something or its poorly written.

but if understand I dont agree. There’s providing mods that run on top if a the game, and there’s reuploading altered versions of someone’s software. Both are “modified” but are very different things.

Your branch analogy also doesn’t seem applicable. i couldn’t find any open source community for the mod and the patreon implies its closed source. so if the author doesn’t want forks, tough luck.