alt Hacker NewsWhat I dislike about Zotero is that it's a pain in the ass to self host. In my department I could spin up a local Zotero server for our PhD students and give them basically unlimited sync, but it's really finnicky
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sureglymop • today at 5:07 PM
I agree. It's "open source" but I would put a huge asterisk on that label. It really reminds me most of AI models that are only open weights.
chompychop • today at 3:22 PM
In this day and age, I'd say this is hardly an excuse. Spin up your favorite harness and let the agents sort it out. :)
What difficulties are you having? All you need is WebDAV. I use a nextcloud server for mine and my partner's zotero storage, and its entirely trivial to set up.
I have many issues with Zotero (which has been dumbing down at the expense of power users for some time) – but easy private sync is definitely not one of them.