Setup not working on all platforms and the instructions are unclear

[mgagic]

there's no "Discussions" tab so I'm putting it here, but I honestly don't know how to start writing up issues because it seems whatever I try, some issue pops up. It all seems like a mess from the end-user point of view and it's quite unfortunate.
Is this repo being actively maintained? When are the fixes planned for the multiple open bugs?

background: I paid for the professional offline license and planned to set up the standard notes server onto my arch-linux-based home server to be used for local sync only (for now, only in-house, not making the server visible from the outside). I planned to use the client app on linux, android, macOS, and windows so I tried all of them while trying to set everything up and it seems like there's some kind issue on each of them.

Long story short - creating an account and applying the subscription key worked only on windows desktop app, with the server docker image image: standardnotes/server:5c02435ee478b893747d3f9e41062aae12d7ff10 which someone mentioned in one of the older issues - with the default image: standardnotes/server, I'd go into the login loop to "refresh the session"
On the web app from the provided docker container, creating an account failed with cannot read properties of undefined (reading 'digest')

Using the client app on linux, I'm constantly in the login loop with both the "tagged" image above, and the default. On macOS the login loop doesn't occur with any of the server docker images. 😮‍💨

On android, I can't log in at all, with the error "failed to fetch"

Subscription sharing also doesn't seem to work, I create additional accounts on the server and run the docker compose commands from the website, but the features seem to be locked anyway (though the account shows it supposedly have the subscription activated

If anyone has any tips, I'm all eyes, but the instructions for self-hosting definitely need an update and the functionality on different platforms needs alignment

[esiqveland]

Did you figure out? I am getting a login loop of "refresh the session"

[mgagic]

Did you figure out? I am getting a login loop of "refresh the session"

yes, but without sharing the subscription (workaround: multiple people share the same login and the notes, which is fine for us, but not ideal if you want multiple people having their separate notes as well)

the behaviour was inconsistent, but in the end the problem seemed to be that https was required by the client apps and some browsers

my final solution is:

• server: hosted using docker setup as described here
• web app: hosted using docker setup as described here
• custom domain bought from porkbun and porkcron used to manage ssl certificates
  • any domain provider will do but manual steps to edit DNS TXT record might be needed, or access to domain provider's API, if available
  • there are solutions online if you don't want to register a domain and want to issue your own certificates, but I think some browsers might still have issue with those and you would need additional workarounds - I haven't tried this
• nginx using docker, setup as described here
• apps on ubuntu/arch/windows/mac/android/ios from respective stores/package managers

hope that helps!