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New comment by joethei in "The Future of Obsidian Plugins"

joethei — Wed, 13 May 2026 11:07:25 +0000

The system consists of a few different parts, the linter is only one part and is responsible for surfacing issues to the dev during development.

We have additional checks that also check the release assets to catch issues in dependencies etc, that part is not public.

New comment by joethei in "The Future of Obsidian Plugins"

joethei — Wed, 13 May 2026 11:03:20 +0000

Ads / telemetry are disallowed completely, as per our developer policies. So plugins that have those domains in the code will not be available from the site / app.

New comment by joethei in "Obsidian Bases"

joethei — Tue, 19 Aug 2025 11:19:20 +0000

Nope, that's not the Obsidian way. We don't use frameworks

We include very few dependencies, see: <https://help.obsidian.md/credits#Third+party+acknowledgement...>

New comment by joethei in "Obsidian Bases"

joethei — Mon, 18 Aug 2025 21:57:25 +0000

For the grammar: Lezer For the editor: CodeMirror

Everything else is custom as we generally don't use existing frameworks and the large amount of baggage they carry. CodeMirror and Lezer we already used before Bases.

New comment by joethei in "Show HN: Obsidian Canvas – An infinite space for your ideas"

joethei — Wed, 21 Dec 2022 10:13:07 +0000

We did not implement the crypto part ourselves. We use the SuptleCrypto Web API implementation and a library called scrypt (this one: https://github.com/ricmoo/scrypt-js).

We also had someone from the EteSync/EteBase project take a look at the code before Obsidian Sync was released.

New comment by joethei in "Show HN: Obsidian Canvas – An infinite space for your ideas"

joethei — Tue, 20 Dec 2022 20:24:44 +0000

No, we do not use AWS. The Sync and Publish servers are running in Digital Ocean datacenters in the US. How sync encrypts the data is documented here: https://help.obsidian.md/Obsidian+Sync/Security+and+privacy

As others have already pointed out, Sync is not the only option to synchronize notes, Obsidian sync is just a convenience option.

For compliance, I am guessing you mean certs like SOC 2 / ISO 27001?, or what are you referencing? As we are a tiny company (6 people, not all full time) we just can't expense the time needed to get such a certificate.

New comment by joethei in "Obsidian 1.0 – Personal knowledge base app"

joethei — Thu, 13 Oct 2022 15:09:22 +0000

Yes, the update got released on every platform

New comment by joethei in "Obsidian 1.0 – Personal knowledge base app"

joethei — Thu, 13 Oct 2022 14:06:19 +0000

Common misconception, but Obsidian itself is not open source

New comment by joethei in "Obsidian 1.0 – Personal knowledge base app"

joethei — Thu, 13 Oct 2022 13:55:19 +0000

It's a caching problem. You should be directed to the correct version in the next few minutes.

New comment by joethei in "CodeMirror 6.0 Stable Release"

joethei — Wed, 08 Jun 2022 17:14:40 +0000

This is correct, Obsidian uses CM6 on all platforms.

A CM5 based editor is still available as "Legacy Editor" in the settings on desktop, to support older plugins.

Mobile was always using a CM6 editor, while desktop only got CM6 some time after that. Which is probably the source of the confusion.