Please keep me posted too.
I'm eyeing another product, but a fork of Core would be amazing.
FreeBSD + ZFS + jails = an
excellent NAS solution
(Which is what made FreeNAS / TrueNAS Core so great.)
The stagnation of Core saddens me. Especially when simple, innocuous things don't get fixed under the rationale of "cannot risk breaking the software for our enterprise customers."
As far as new features that made it to SCALE, but
not Core? Don't even get me started. I cannot accept the same excuse of "but our enterprise customers" when SCALE gets on/off toggles for SMB and NFS shares, but Core does not. Same with the "snapshot hold" feature in the GUI.
For instance, what if an enterprise customer requests on/off toggles for shares? Would iXsystems implement them? (Which they already did for SCALE, anyways.) What if an enterprise customer requests a checkbox to protect a snapshot with a "Hold"? Would iXsystems implement it? (Which, again, they already did for SCALE.)
Screenshot from another user's SCALE dashboard.