My interest in having a web version of Obsidian stems from wanting to be able to easily work on vaults with other people.
For example, I would like to have a vault that I can share with my whole department at work. I have been responsible for team knowledge management in previous roles. I have used MediaWiki, Dokuwiki, Confluence, Jive, Salesforce, Wordpress, Drupal, and probably at least one other tool that I’m forgetting. They all have enough faults that I eventually wrote a blog post about what a hypothetical perfect team knowledge management tool would like, which I won’t bother linking to or quoting because: it’s Obsidian. It’s a multi-user version of Obsidian.
All of the same features that make Obsidian a best-in-class Personal Knowledge Management tool, are what would make it a best-in-class tool for teams.
Imagine if you could ditch your corporate wiki, or god help me, Sharepoint, and replace it with Obsidian? Right now, the major obstacle to being able to do that is that we can’t drop Obsidian on a webserver, point it at a vault, and hook it up to a corporate authentication system like Active Directory or LDAP or whatever. And I would gladly pay for this. I WANT to pay for this. The only reason I am not actively engaged in a harassment campaign to annoy my boss into cutting a check RIGHT. NOW. is because it doesn’t exist yet.
My unicorns-and-rocketships ideal outcome would be that a multi-user self-hostable web version, and there would be paid plugins for Active Directory/SSO/etc. But if we “only” got a multi-user web version, I would be beyond happy