Hi guys, thank you for a great app. I wanted to know if you have any plans to introduce support for other cloud storages (especially since you’ve dropped Google Drive). I’m the kind of user who doesn’t really want to mess around with OPDS or SMB. I like to keep my files in the cloud, but without paying gazillion dollars to Dropbox or Apple.
Yandex.Disk (from the so-called Russian Google) offers 1TB for only $30 a year (or 3TB for $70), which is nothing compared to other services and they have very detailed documentation for APIs.
Yes, it’s a bit of an odd request to integrate a Russian service, but it’s quite popular among scanlaters due to its cheapness and reliability. I know a few French teams that store terabytes of BDs there (but they may have chosen this jurisdiction for legal reasons ).
Given that Panels libraries are accessible from Files, and you can simply drop files into it, we’ve deprioritized implementing other cloud service importers.
Adding a new service requires that we code individual adapters for each of them. And worst of all, maintain them when they make changes to their APIs. We’re a very small team, and we have to choose our battles wisely.
That’s why we’ve opted for adding support to standard APIs instead of service-specific. Ideally, services could adopt open standards like OPDS, or Apple’s File Provider protocol.
That doesn’t mean we won’t add support for more cloud services, but right now we have other priorities.
We might add support for WebDAV when we have time, which is another standard. If any of those services support one of those standards, they will just work.
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