There is always the fork option

Time will tell. The words of AnkiHub are quite comforting, as it seems they are a small organisation focused on med students. It also seems they were surprised themselves with the offer they received when asking for collaboration.

They also say they will keep it open source 🤞

Excuse my skepticism (it comes with experience), but after reading through AnkiHub's PR-speak AI slop, I doubt that a company with 40 employees that already uses a monthly subscription and AI is not going to enshittify this project. Did their team contribute anything to the OSS project while they were building a for profit company on top of it?

Just read through.

AnikiHub's page is a little concerning on its own, with 'we offer AI features!' blatantly front and center.

More worrying is that in their post they go out of their way to say "Anki's core code will remain open source" (emphasis mine).

Otherwise, idk, sounds like at a base level they have the right ideals in mind.

Looks like another musescore situation.

Open source app with paid addons

The business model worked once, time will tell if it will work again.

I've been surprised that I haven't had to pay for Anki cloud sync yet.

I thought Anki was just a flashcard app? That's like hello-world tier software. I don't understand why there would be a whole business around this.

Fork it. Keep it open source. Enshitification is coming.

Some discussion already at the crosspost and at HackerNews.

The posts themselves from Anki's creator and AnkiHub look encouraging, but definitely some reasons to be skeptical.