What is the crowd's opinion of Athens?

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Sorry for not being clear. This is what I was referring to:

> We are currently building out a hosted software service that will start at $6/month. (Source)

I'm also curious to learn more about your experience with the local version — are there any major gaps compared to Roam?

Thanks!

Great question!

A close thing would be a wiki. There might be a self hosted version of Tiddlywiki, but will have its limitations.

It is more like a Roam alternative, but a team is building Athens, all in public. That should be self hostable. They are taking beta user applications.

I got intrigued about Clojure as both Roam and its open-source counterpart Athens opted to use it. This article gives a nice overview of why they're using it, but if you shall choose a single article to read I suggest Beating the Averages by Paul Graham about Lisp (the category Clojure belongs to). I'm no expert, I'm just trusting them.

https://github.com/athensresearch/athens/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md

This is a link to how to install it. I haven't used it yet, I think I will wait until it is more fleshed out. Sorry to hear about the data loss, I haven't lost any data yet in Roam, but I am constantly anxious about it (which already makes Roam not worth using). I backup every day and have tried to not write too much in there for the time being, but you can only do so much with markdown files without the bidirectional links in case your database goes bust. Might give Zettlr a try again. I downloaded it a few days ago but ended up uninstalling it because I didn't have time to learn how to use it.

Great question! I'm actually making a faster (open-source) version of roamresearch right now, in Clojure of course! Athens is her name, and obviously I'm biased but I think it'd be a great project to get your hands dirty with if you're new to Clojure :)