People suffering data loss because of misconfiguration, misunderstanding or hardware oddities are a recurring, if infrequent, feature here and on the issue tracker. For some of us we’re wise to things going wrong and/or dropping databases when we were young and foolish (listen, it was only a single site’s entire accounts data, OK? they had five other sites), but it’s not really right for us to say “you should have a backup” and wish them luck.
What do folk think of a first-time, very brief prompt that succinctly warns people about the possibility of data loss? Would it have helped previous victims, and prevent some future ones? Would the minor, one-off irritation be worth it? Should it force people to type “YES OK I GET IT I PROMISE I HAVE BACKUP” before being able to use syncthing?
If you’ve been a victim - or nearly been a victim - would this have saved your data?
I imagine it being a config directive which experienced users could just set to “true” when we generate our configurations, because we definitely have backups already. We definitely test them and know they work. Definitely.