My honest recommendation here would be to use Notesnook instead. I used Joplin for a while, and when I found Notesnook I switched immediately. It’s just flat out better at basically everything Joplin does, and it’s still open source. No need to run syncthing, use the notesnook server to sync and backup everything.

We were doing DNS challenges for an isolated system and our provider didn’t support that.

Yeah, same, this is news to me but very interesting. Would have solved an issue we had at work that ended up requiring us to move our whole DNS over.

So low you’d have to dig.

Yeah, I guess to Trump it must seem super intelligent.

Out of all these points, the key one is that it was $40 in a genre where the median price for entry is $0. That really deserves to be front and centre above everything else.

Everything you’ve said is completely accurate, and describes why Concorde failed, but the key to why it failed as hard as it did is the decision to slap a price tag on it.

To get away with being a $40 game in a free-to-play genre, they would have to have something so compellingly unique that it could not only stand out in the crowd, but stand head and shoulders above it.

Concorde was still destined to fail even without that decision, because, as you said, there was nothing unique about it. Forgettable, boring characters battling for unclear stakes in generic arenas with generic powers. No differentiation at all. But released as a free to play game it might at least have gone maybe a year before it collapsed.

But the sheer arrogance of taking this boring, also-ran, generic hero shooter clone and deciding that it was so special that it deserved a $40 price tag… That’s what turned Concorde into the greatest failure in the history of video games.

Been using Seafile for years, it’s fantastic.