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Re: Focalboard – a self-hosted alternative to Trello, Notion, and Asana

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Post by 4lun »

gala8y wrote: post #69
4lun wrote: post #64

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I tried a bunch of selfhosted alternatives to Trello a few months back and never registered OpenProject as an option. I mainly used this list https://github.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted#tas... I did focus on "Task management/To-do lists", while OpenProject is listed under the "Project Management" section. This is likely why I missed it as I've been looking for something clean and simple (not JIRA) that i…

> I just want cards on a board I can move around (with a bit of metadata) If I may, what did you finally settle on?

Still on Trello for now.

Tempted to try building something from scratch since I can always see myself using such a system.

Re: Focalboard – a self-hosted alternative to Trello, Notion, and Asana

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Post by it33 »

riho wrote: post #102

Welp.

Focalboard team here.

Hi @riho, thanks for your feedback. One key piece of feedback we've heard is that other SaaS-based project management tools can run slow.

Because of this, one concept we're testing out is "Focalboard Personal Desktop" where you can run the software locally.

You can download the v0.6 version from the Windows Store or Apple AppStore to try it out. We would love your feedback.

Also, if you're interested in influencing the project, please consider submitting a ticket with type `enhancement` with what you'd like to see: https://github.com/mattermost/focalboard/issues

Re: Focalboard – a self-hosted alternative to Trello, Notion, and Asana

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Post by scq »

movedx wrote: post #43
orliesaurus wrote: post #27

I love Notion but the speed, or rather lack of, is killing me daily. Last Friday I was taking some notes, and suddenly the page refreshed and everything was gone. Went on twitter to see, I wasn't alone .. i feel like hosting my own notion clone is the way to go forward to use Notion...

I've actually just started using Notion and the UI is nice, as is the feature set, but yeah, I'm getting a little annoyed by the constant page loads. I mean this kind of thing continues to fuel my beliefs that software is going backwards here because frankly, how hard can it be to render some text?

I'm sure it was a lot snappier when I started using it, but it has been getting quite slow over the past couple of years.

Really makes me want a lightweight alternative because I love its editing model.

Re: Focalboard – a self-hosted alternative to Trello, Notion, and Asana

#105

Post by it33 »

orliesaurus wrote: post #27

I love Notion but the speed, or rather lack of, is killing me daily. Last Friday I was taking some notes, and suddenly the page refreshed and everything was gone. Went on twitter to see, I wasn't alone .. i feel like hosting my own notion clone is the way to go forward to use Notion...

Focalboard team here.

You can try the "Focalboard Personal Desktop" to run locally where your performance won't be affected by other users.

We made it available in Windows Store and Apple AppStore to make it easy to try out.

This is just a v0.6 right now, and we would love bug reports and enhancement ideas.

It's the early days of the project and we are excited to hear input: https://github.com/mattermost/focalboard/issues

Re: Focalboard – a self-hosted alternative to Trello, Notion, and Asana

#106

Post by AstroJetson »

4lun wrote: post #64
unsungNovelty wrote: post #51

https://www.openproject.org/ I am always surprised when people don't mention Open Project. Cos isn't this fragmentation? Open Project... - Have been there for a long time. - Good motivated team AFAIK, - Have forum software. - Project board - And even version control! Everything self hosted or enterprise/cloud for serious stuff or people who want to support them. Or is there some other reason why openproject is not kn…

I tried a bunch of selfhosted alternatives to Trello a few months back and never registered OpenProject as an option. I mainly used this list https://github.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted#tas... I did focus on "Task management/To-do lists", while OpenProject is listed under the "Project Management" section. This is likely why I missed it as I've been looking for something clean and simple (not JIRA) that i…

I use and like https://nullboard.io/preview nullboard which runs in the browser. Because it uses local data, you need to save it or the data is lost when you close the browser window.

Re: Focalboard – a self-hosted alternative to Trello, Notion, and Asana

#107

Post by riho »

it33 wrote: post #103
riho wrote: post #102

Welp.

Focalboard team here. Hi @riho, thanks for your feedback. One key piece of feedback we've heard is that other SaaS-based project management tools can run slow. Because of this, one concept we're testing out is "Focalboard Personal Desktop" where you can run the software locally. You can download the v0.6 version from the Windows Store or Apple AppStore to try it out. We would love your feedback. Also, if you're inter…

That's fair enough, "x, but actually fast" is definitely a strong selling point and a differentiator in my book. That wasn't mentioned on the landing page.

Re: Focalboard – a self-hosted alternative to Trello, Notion, and Asana

#108

Post by it33 »

kogepathic wrote: post #85

The installation instructions for the server install don't seem to work. > wget https://releases.mattermost.com/focalboard/0.5.0/focalboard-... > tar -xvzf focalboard-server-linux-amd64.tar.gz The file is actually a zip with the tar.gz inside: focalboard-server-linux-amd64.tar.gz: Zip archive data, at least v2.0 to extract $ unzip -l focalboard-server-linux-amd64.tar.gz Archive: focalboard-server-linux-amd64.tar.gz L…

Focalboard team here,

Hi @kogepathic, sorry about that, adding your report as a ticket here: https://github.com/mattermost/focalboard/issues/94

Re: Focalboard – a self-hosted alternative to Trello, Notion, and Asana

#109

Post by it33 »

mandiantBob wrote: post #10

I just downloaded and tested the standalone desktop app. It has a very pretty and responsive interface compared to Kanboard. I have been self hosting Kanboard on my rpi for my own work, and I think that Kanboard still has many 'poweruser' features that Focalboard is missing. If there is an easy way for me to migrate my Kanboard data over to Focalboard, I would definitely give it a shot as a daily driver.

Focalboard team here, thanks for the idea!

Added an enhancement ticket for this: https://github.com/mattermost/focalboard/issues/95

Open to other feedback as well! https://github.com/mattermost/focalboard/wiki/Share-your-fee...!

Re: Focalboard – a self-hosted alternative to Trello, Notion, and Asana

#110

Post by isitdopamine »

madpata wrote: post #99
isitdopamine wrote: post #67

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Let’s just say that the fact that Electron needs to allocate hundreds of MB in memory to display a single “Hello world” text does not depose in Electron’s favor. Compare it with the few MBs needed by an equivalent native app with exactly same functionality. By any standard and by any metric, Electron is bloated. Some applications (like VSCode) can disguise it quite well and give a an acceptable user experience.

Maybe that's because Electron isn't made to just display a single line of text? Text Rendering, CSS Layouts, Accessibility, being good at cross-platform, Canvas/WebGL and a myriad of other APIs make Electron pretty powerful. I don't know exactly, but I think QT would be it's main competitor when it comes to those features. But QT isn't always that easy to develop with.

For what is worth Electron could solve all the problem in the worlds. My point is that in order to display rich text, images and basic UI elements (what Notion and for instance Slack need) it requires an abysmal amount of memory with respect to a native implementation.
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