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Re: Self-hosted alternatives to popular cloud services

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Post by sytse » Sat, Nov 14, 2015, 4:51 PM UTC

favadi wrote: post #139

sytse wrote: post #130

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"It seems like apt package dependencies would be more elegant than bundling everything together." totally agree, that why is why we're sponsoring Pirate Praveen who is working on a native Debian package.

That's great! Is there any ETA or discussion I can follow?

The feedback issue is in http://feedback.gitlab.com/forums/176466-general/suggestions... but Pirate Praveen mostly sends updates by email and the GitLab issue tracker. He has it running and seems to be in the final stages.

Re: Self-hosted alternatives to popular cloud services

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Post by jancborchardt » Sat, Nov 14, 2015, 9:35 PM UTC

CaptSpify wrote: post #108

jancborchardt wrote: post #52

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ownCloud designer here – thanks a lot for the kind words! We’re also about to improve the web interfaces for Calendar and Contacts in coming ownCloud versions. Also, I’m glad you like the Mail app although it’s in a very early stage! If you experience any issues or have feature requests, please let us know at https://github.com/owncloud/mail/issues :)

I have a question about owncloud if you don't mind: Is there any way to run owncloud modularly? For example: I'd like just the calendar setup. I don't want to sync files, or share pictures with it, etc. Is there any way I can set up just the features I want, and disable the rest? I have very briefly looked over how to do this, but haven't found anything.

You can enable and disable pretty much everything – except Files. That’s because it’s the core app and others like Gallery, PDF viewing, Music etc of course rely on there being files. There have been requests to even make it possible to disable the Files app, but we don’t really see that as priority and rather focus on keeping ownCloud rock stable and secure while still driving features forward. We are a very small team and an open source project, so I guess that’s understandable. :)

As a really dirty hack, meanwhile you could just hide the Files icon from the menu via CSS. But, well … ;)

Re: Self-hosted alternatives to popular cloud services

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Post by jancborchardt » Sat, Nov 14, 2015, 9:37 PM UTC

avinassh wrote: post #36

If you want a plain music server, then give Mopidy [0] a try. It is also Open Source [1] and written using Python. I have been using it on my Raspberry Pi and it has been fantastic. [0] - http://www.mopidy.com [1] - https://github.com/mopidy/mopidy

This sounds a lot like Tomahawk: https://tomahawk-player.org/ – playing from different sources and all. Of course that’s a desktop app, but it’s pretty popular already and well designed.

Re: Self-hosted alternatives to popular cloud services

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Post by jancborchardt » Sun, Nov 15, 2015, 8:39 AM UTC

fapjacks wrote: post #117

OwnCloud eats files in the most insidious manner, and this is known to the devs , who in the past have suggested that the workaround is to use another sync application. DO NOT USE OWNCLOUD if you value your data!! We discovered OwnCloud eating files after about three months of office paranoia, beginning to wonder if it was an inside job of a disgruntled employee. Turns out it was an inside job of incompetent software…

If you really have problems with ownCloud, then please report them at our issue tracker https://github.com/owncloud/core/issues in more detail than »eats files«. Then we can actually fix the problem.

About the delta sync: There’s plans being made and work being done on it. It’s locked because all people get notified on every »+1« comment and that doesn’t help to focus and get actual work done. Besides, do you really believe that USD 1200 will swiftly take care of implementing this feature?

Re: Self-hosted alternatives to popular cloud services

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Post by jancborchardt » Sun, Nov 15, 2015, 8:40 AM UTC

edent wrote: post #75

jancborchardt wrote: post #63

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Since you already use ownCloud, you might want to check out the News app: https://apps.owncloud.com/content/show.php/News?content=1680... It’s pretty cool, basically like TT-RSS but it looks more modern and is integrated in ownCloud. There are also apps for almost all platforms, like apps for Android & iOS which download all articles (and even podcasts) for offline reading.

Oooh! I've been looking for a good PodCatcher. Thanks.

You’re welcome! Let us know of any issues or feedback at https://github.com/owncloud/news/issues :)

Re: Self-hosted alternatives to popular cloud services

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Post by sytse » Mon, Nov 16, 2015, 12:59 AM UTC

sytse wrote: post #141

favadi wrote: post #139

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That's great! Is there any ETA or discussion I can follow?

The feedback issue is in http://feedback.gitlab.com/forums/176466-general/suggestions... but Pirate Praveen mostly sends updates by email and the GitLab issue tracker. He has it running and seems to be in the final stages.

I learned that the task tracker for this is at https://gitlab.com/debian-ruby/TaskTracker/milestones/1

Re: Self-hosted alternatives to popular cloud services

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Post by nikolay » Mon, Nov 16, 2015, 6:59 AM UTC

kentonv wrote: post #127

nikolay wrote: post #123

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... except that it doesn't have basic stuff like email. For that I use Mail-in-a-Box [0], but I would love to see both projects merging. [0] https://mailinabox.email/

Sandstorm does have an email app (roundcube), though admittedly it's a little weird to use right now. We plan to make Sandstorm work better as an email server in the future, probably early 2016-ish.

I am talking about an email server, not an email client.

Re: Self-hosted alternatives to popular cloud services

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Post by BuildTheRobots » Wed, Nov 18, 2015, 12:29 PM UTC

Vendan wrote: post #92

microtonal wrote: post #67

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There are many reasons I prefer Bittorrent Sync over Syncthing: identity based sharing (rather than node linking), good support for situations where you cannot poke holes in a firewall, selective sync support, and encrypted read-only secrets. Moreover, it's much easier to set up, I share stuff with family and they didn't have problems setting it up.

Note that Syncthing just put out relay support, so you don't have to poke holes in firewall if you don't want to, and your data is still secure, as the relay server just relays the encrypted stream. In the (roughly) week since the feature was released, the public relay network has already routed over 2.6 TiB. (I run 2 relay servers on the public pool)

Relay support is nice, but I still desperately wish for "caching relay servers". I'd love to be able to spin up a high bandwidth VPS with storage and let it be a node, but for it never to have the ability to actually decrypt the data it's storing.