@dae Would you welcome a PR that enables synchronization to third-party services like Google Drive/Onedrive/Mega/etc.? The work I imagine that you would have to do (besides reviewing the PR, obviously) is 1) set up the feature in AnkiMobile and 2) set up OAuth apps for each respective cloud platform…

Implementing such a feature across the ecosystem (there is also AnkiDroid) is a major endeavour. It would likely took months (if possible at all due to restrictions imposed by the platforms) not only from the technical side but also regarding documentation and communication. It will likely result in…

[image] ferophila: It would likely took months (if possible at all due to restrictions imposed by the platforms) Source, for any of these claims? [image] ferophila: It will likely result in more support queries that can’t be resolved, as third-party platforms are involved. From what I…

It’s very hard to claim, at least in good faith, that the complexity for a normal user would be the same when connecting Anki to their Google drive and self-hosting their own sync server. I think there’s actually way more work to be done on the sync server’s side, than on this theoretical suggestio…

Another option is syncing through Git/VCS, which would be pretty awesome if it was implemented. I imagine it would require significant architectural changes, but would enable so many possibilities (collab on same deck, undo very old actions, etc.) and this is something you can choose to self-host or…

[image] ferophila: What would be the benefit for users? Don’t know about others, but keeping all my data in one place would be nice (Gdrive). Most of us already have too many accounts on different websites. But that’s the thing, I have no idea how to use a sync server Anki already provides. M…

Anki would have to take into account a number of special features of the various services, in particular the total storage available to the user in their tariff (all services have restrictions in their free tariffs), restrictions with regard to the transfer volume (Mega), the maximum number of possi…

Sounds like this can benefit from the work being done on collaboration platforms: [image] Integrate an open interface for collaboration plaftorms Development @dae wants to integrate AnkiHub to Anki in Integrate AnkiHub Sign-in by abdnh · Pull Request #3232 · ankitects/anki…

Yes, indeed. And I think Git syncing would align much better with the whole collaboration platform thing. Also, obviously either alternative (drive sync or VCS/Git sync) would take a significant amount of time to implement. That is known. Question is, where should this time be placed? With drive sy…

A long time ago, Anki used DropBox for storing media files. It was not a great user experience, and there were problems when DropBox made changes. It was this bad experience that motivated the introduction of built-in media syncing. As for syncing of cards/notes/review history, a block-storage serv…

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Sounds like this can benefit from the work being done on collaboration platforms:

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Anki Cloud Storage Suggestions	3	1068	January 5, 2026
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Open-sourcing AnkiWeb? Suggestions	22	2776	June 4, 2025
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Direct syncing between devices, without sync server Suggestions	6	3447	January 19, 2023

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