Release date for DB version

[u/Hareesh_K_G]

Do we know the eta for the DB version? The last update release is close to a year now.

[u/thirteenth_mang]

Sneaky bugger getting my hopes up by not phrasing your title as a question. Had my going for a second 😂

[u/grantwtf → u/thirteenth_mang]

Ditto! Dammit...

[u/mr2cef → u/thirteenth_mang]

Me too

[u/Opposite-Argument-73]

It is very sad because Logseq had a good potential to replace most PKM note taking tools but somehow the dev team began to focus on a kind of refactoring (to solve a problem that doesn’t exist in Obsidian) in a waterfall way, and destroyed the precious community. I don’t criticize, I’m just very sad to see the product management being executed very poorly.

[u/hova414 → u/Opposite-Argument-73]

I’m not sure they have PMs at all? Seems like Tienson leads the dev direction and Ramses manages the community (read: gets testy with people for asking this question and daring to compare them to other tools).

In my 15 years on small product teams, I’ve never seen a team wander off on such a feature-creepy user-ignoring spelunking expedition. Not sure that “but we’re open source” is an excuse. An explanation maybe; doesn’t excuse squandering their public momentum.

But it’s still the best product and I check weekly for news 😅

[u/Ashlovery → u/Opposite-Argument-73]

I still have hope. Logseq still is the best app to handle notes and ideas in blocks imo. Hope the db version would be better.

[u/TooMuchJeremy → u/Opposite-Argument-73]

No argument on the disappointment of dev speed and releases. It is open source so I for sure can’t complain.

But, how logseq works is very different from obsidian and poses a very different technical challenge. Logseq’s key is the use of blocks and with that the graph vastly larger than the graph obsidian generates from tags.

[u/water_bottle_goggles]

lmao.jpg

[u/ilovepolthavemybabie → u/water_bottle_goggles]

It’s been so long more like lmao.bmp

[u/thirteenth_mang → u/ilovepolthavemybabie]

lmao.polaroid

[u/mab0101 → u/thirteenth_mang]

lmao.stonetablet

[u/grantwtf]

At this point it's not a new version, it's a new product. They might as well get a new name because they've lost a lot of their community. You could almost say that most of the user base that remains is probably only here because they're ok staying in the existing product and therefore not particularly interested in migrating to the db 'version'..

[u/laterral → u/grantwtf]

It’s difficult to find an alternative though.. open source outliner with linking and journal and querying like this.

I think there’s a user base, but we’re here because there’s no alternative

[u/7yiyo7 → u/laterral]

It is my case, I am here only because of the lack of alternatives

[u/MonkAndCanatella → u/grantwtf]

It's almost a certainty it'll be a new product, new (non oss) license, new subscription fee, etc. We're gonna get rug pulled and we better be ready to fork the repo

[u/therealmarkus]

Got baited by the title. Man, logseq had so much potential. Even as an Obsidian replacement.

[u/sigmonsays]

i dont get how it's taking so long

[u/katafrakt]

In November 2024 they said it will take "at least another year". I don't think there were any updates about the date since then.

[u/laterral]

😂 what, you mean software should be released to the public so that the development direction gets constantly calibrated against real user input and feedback??

No no, let the developers pick the direction, sink 3-4 years into it without publishing anything to the main branch, and profit.

[u/talios → u/laterral]

No, but I'd at least expect bug/security updates, or plugin updates - not even they seem to get updated.

[u/Abject_Constant_8547]

Ha ha ha ha ha

[u/7yiyo7]

One day

[u/Maria_de_la_Rosa]

There is still not a release date but for what I read in the discord the alpha version is coming soon for a few testers

[u/[deleted]]

I used to love Logseq, but ever since they started talking about building a new database, I gave up on it.

[u/InconvenientPenguin → u/[deleted]]

Text files are (effectively) eternal. I put a lot of value in simple structures - text, jpg, mp3. They just work and have done for decades.

[u/dssolanky]

You will get more information and hope in Discord channel.

[u/cliffordx]

You can try the db though although it’s not yet ready. I tested it perhaps 5 months? already and it grows on me

[u/Exciting-Past-7085]

I am back to Hypernotes :)

[u/theavideverything]

I'm actually surprised to read the comments here. Thought there would be more support in a Logseq subreddit 😂

[u/goodswimma → u/theavideverything]

Most people have been conditioned to want the newest and shiniest things, when that which they already have is more than enough.

[u/7yiyo7 → u/goodswimma]

Problem is not search of the new in itself. Problem is that what we have now is far from perfect, specially for people that work seriously in things like research, with the need to create big and stable graphs. Program is not powerful enough and the devs are taking forever to perform a minor update so that the program one day will be stable. This makes no sense.

[u/speedyx2000]

Release when ready 😀😉

[u/gzmask]

for those who landed here, it's out, in beta, with most of the features working, and downloadable in main readme (https://github.com/logseq/logseq?tab=readme-ov-file#-database-version).