Local storage might be a lifesaver here. Just in case someone forgets to save offer auto recovery. This can be done client side with no server costs.

Trust me, I know. But even here we run into issues, such as projects over the local storage limit, and the fact that (well, until COVID...sigh), a non-trivial number of students were in computer labs that contained programs like deep freeze making anything local storage based headache inducing as a means of support.

Thanks. Would you say you need more contributors? And if you do what are you needing? Coders? Project Managers? Designers? Writers?

Depends on what you're doing, but coding is probably the obstacle. There's about 4 of us working various amounts of part time.

In the case of auto-save, there's a lot of unsettled design trade-offs, and other needs keep coming up. But if you're curious, you're welcome to check out the GitHub: snap-cloud/snapCloud is the backend, and jmoenig/snap is the main IDE.

Yeah as a beginner at open source contributing (but not development) I'd be looking to fix tiny bugs first anyway!

Good point, I was definitely too flippant about the amount of work involved. Glad to hear it's on the list though!