Monthly auto-exports via email
Since commit hash 407092067c60db1967704f3f0217adf0af8df618 a new feature is live on mataroa.blog: monthly auto-exports via email.
One can enable it through the blog settings, and what it does is it sends you an email every month with one attachment, a zip archive of all your blog posts in markdown format.
Store on the user’s side is a very important part of this feature. We can—and do—offer up-to-date on-demand backups/exports of a user’s blog. But, that’s not good enough.
Backups are a way to mitigate the risk of data loss. Maybe we have the most robust system in the world; we still want backups, so that our users don’t need to trust us.
On the technical side, sending the backups via email to the users means that they don’t need to care whether our server is available or that they can access it when they decide that they want a backup.
But this feature is also useful in mitigating non-technical risks. If we receive a government takedown request, we will comply, as the law abiding citizens and company that we are. If a user has turned this feature on, though, they don’t have to worry about losing all their work. It will have already been placed on the cloud of their personal email.
