Support S3 and S3-compatible Storage?

[hesprs]

I have a long-term plan to support S3 and S3-compatible storage, like what Remotely Save does. Currently, the plugin code is strongly reusable to adapt S3.

I need a polling to determine whether the plan is worthwhile. I recommend everyone who sees this participate in the 5-second anonymous polling to allow me to obtain a fair result, no matter you feel interested about S3 or not, thanks ♥️!

Pros of adapting S3:

• you can use your S3 service for syncing
• S3 will be conceivably faster and reliable than WebDAV
• existing syncing logic will be reused, you will get similar plugin experience

Cons of adapting S3:

• more development effort and potential bugs
• slightly more overhead: S3 is useless for WebDAV and vise versa, including both backends increases loading time

Note that apart from WebDAV and S3, all proprietary protocols and vendor-specific APIs (OneDrive, Google Drive, Dropbox) will not be planned in the near future. They add pure overhead to the plugin and only benefit a small portion of users.

[hesprs]

I think I have found a better way to support S3 or other backends with minimal maintenance overhead or plugin bloat. So this polling can be finished.

Looking at the results, more than 1/3 of the people would like to see the S3 support. Although not the majority, if we consider the impact of sampling bias, the result might lean toward it.

S3 syncing will come true at some point in a wiser way, the ones who don't need S3 won't receive any bloat in the new architecture.