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jancborchardt

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About jancborchardt

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    Comment #24746906

    It used to be CC0 on Unsplash but some time ago they moved from that to a custom license with some special restrictons, which makes it impossible to use in other Creative Commons w…

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    Comment #24746692

    Really nice! Since Unsplash is mentioned in the About page, I hope it doesn’t go the same way with a strange non-CC license at some point. (Also ideally sticking to just Attributio…

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    Comment #20834410

    > At this point, my only criticisms are that I think the installation should be more idiot-friendly, and the UI smells of 2012. One of the Nextcloud designers here – thank you for …

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    Comment #20757154

    For small apps like these, sign up is really a pain. That is why a friend and I have been working on a simplified version, which is mostly based on links so you can also easy share…

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    Comment #20510752

    Nextcloud designer here, thanks for the kind words! What’s something UX-wise that you’d like to see us focus on, or where you have suggestions? If you’re a designer, we’re also alw…

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    Comment #20293764

    Nextcloud designer here, also working on Nextcloud Text. :) Big thanks to ProseMirror https://prosemirror.net and tiptap https://tiptap.scrumpy.io which we use as a base for the ap…

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    Comment #20120053

    Disclaimer: I’m part of the Nextcloud team (and formerly ownCloud before we forked). With Nextcloud we don’t offer hosting for a reason – we would compete with Google, Dropbox, Ama…

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    Comment #15731025

    There’s always Riot https://about.riot.im/ which is a nice and fully open source app so you could set that up on-premise too. :)

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    Comment #15671271

    As far as I can see, Tent unfortunately seems to be inactive. Last commit in 2013: https://github.com/tent/tentd , last blog post 2014: https://tent.io/blog

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    Comment #15671260

    Yeah, that would be me. :) At some point we supported it, but it turned out that for security reasons you would have to have a separate domain for your remoteStorage than your Next…

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    Comment #15106856

    Nextcloud designer here, thanks for mentioning and good to hear you’re happy! :) Everyone is welcome to contribute at https://github.com/nextcloud/ :) And in case anyone is in Berl…

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    Comment #15031806

    A good open source email server is https://mailinabox.email/ :)

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    Comment #14388709

    My partner is doing an incubator program called Social-Digital Innovation Initiative: https://sdinnovation.org The basic idea is to bring together a person who knows of a specific …

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    Comment #13921949

    Might be best to report it at https://github.com/fossjobs/fossjobs/issues :)

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    Comment #13921938

    If you’re up for contributing a simple timeout or something like that I guess the developers would appreciate that a lot :) https://github.com/fossjobs/fossjobs/

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    Comment #13295375

    Thanks for pointing that out! :) While of course showcasing the community is great, doing it just based on commits inherently skews towards developers and ignores others like desig…

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    Comment #13167352

    Thanks, just fixed it. ;)

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    Comment #13167237

    Jan from the Nextcloud team here. If you have any questions don’t hesitate to ask. :) We’re very happy with the new release, especially the the improvements on security and perform…

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    Comment #13009184

    Yeah, sometimes I’m really annoyed about the lack of collaboration between different open source projects. Asked them if they plan on working together: https://twitter.com/jancborc…

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    Comment #12933497

    I’d recommend you too to take a look at Nextcloud News then: https://github.com/nextcloud/news/#nextcloud-news-app :)

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    Comment #12933478

    Did you try out Nextcloud News? https://github.com/nextcloud/news/#nextcloud-news-app We have a more modern design than Tiny Tiny RSS, are way friendlier, and if you would contribu…

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    Comment #12933465

    We do that with Nextcloud News: https://github.com/nextcloud/news/#nextcloud-news-app I’d be interested in what you think about it. It’s completely open source, so any feedback or …

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    Comment #12919357

    Also just to add to this: The Nextcloud Box is a device running Nextcloud, not our main product. :) The focus continues to be the software, which is the server and the apps for syn…

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    Comment #12919351

    Just to add to what Scott said: One important part is that the Nextcloud Box is just a device running Nextcloud. It’s not the main product. :) We focus on developing the software, …

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    Comment #12919338

    We do have an IMAP app for mail https://github.com/nextcloud/mail You can run that together with a Dovecot for example. It integrates nicely with Nextcloud Contacts for autocomplet…