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

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Post by it33 »

mraza007 wrote: post #23

I’m just surprised few weeks ago i was looking at self hosted notion/trello like alternatives and now I just came across this. The project just looks really cool and I’m definitely going to download and try this. I just wanted to thank the developers from the bottom of my heart for creating this. Lastly I’m just curious is it possible to host this on a raspberry pi

Focalboard team here, thank you so much for the recognition!

We're working super hard to build something that benefits our community.

While there's not formal support for Raspberry Pi right now, we'd welcome a the feature idea, here's more on how to share feedback: https://github.com/mattermost/focalboard/wiki/Share-your-fee...!

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

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Post by Reventlov »

nickysielicki wrote: post #5

It's easy to miss that this is by the same people making Mattermost, the open-source self-hosted slack alternative you might have heard of. https://github.com/mattermost/focalboard

So should we expect them to roll out some community edition lacking essential features to kind of force people to use the (paying, closed-source) entreprise edition ?

Some basic features have been wanted for years in the mattermost CE edition, while being implemented in the EE edition, like the capability to prevent users to kick other users from channels ( https://forum.mattermost.org/t/users-can-kick-other-users-of... ).

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

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Post by it33 »

riho wrote: post #107
it33 wrote: post #103

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Focalboard team here, agree with your feedback! Updated README on this: https://github.com/mattermost/focalboard/commit/5c802347be8a...

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

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Post by input_sh »

gala8y wrote: post #72
tibu wrote: post #52

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Same here. And I still did not find the perfect note taking app. I have so few requirements. WYSIWYG editing, easy image insertion, export function with open standard format, mobile app, some security.

I recently moved (almost) all of my note taking into Obsidian [0]. They just released a closed beta mobile app (they are very active in development and great community), but they are local first app. [0] https://obsidian.md edit: To clarify, using they mobile app will require paid subscription in all scenarios, I think (not sure, as I don't need that).

> To clarify, using they mobile app will require paid subscription in all scenarios, I think (not sure, as I don't need that).

Nope. They've said they'll support opening a folder on a phone. Therefore, as long as you sync the folder using some cloud software, the mobile app will work just fine.

But of course, you can pay them for the convenience and they'll sync them for you.

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

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Post by it33 »

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…

Focalboard team here, thanks for the comment!

We weren't aware of Open Project previously, and we're glad to hear about it.

I think you're right, Focalboard is a lot earlier than Open Project, and it doesn't have as many features.

Focalboard was starting during the Mattermost 2020 Hacktoberfest last year: https://mattermost.com/blog/hacktoberfest-2020-recap/

It's in the early stages of development, only v0.6 right now: https://github.com/mattermost/focalboard/blob/main/CHANGELOG...

That said, we're working on it constantly and excited about its future.

Of the features Open Project has now, are there one or two top priorities you'd suggest we consider adding to Focalboard?

We'd love to hear any feedback, feature suggestions or bug reports: https://github.com/mattermost/focalboard/wiki/Share-your-fee...!

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

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Post by capableweb »

jfim wrote: post #49
movedx wrote: post #43

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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?

> how hard can it be to render some text? It really depends. If the only thing you care about rendering is US ASCII with a monospace bitmapped font, that's not too hard. However, a general purpose text renderer will have to handle things like directionality (left to right versus right to left text orientation), wide/half text rendering (for CJK characters), combining characters (for some European, South East Asian la…

"how hard can it be to render some text" as the previous author is a valid complaint, if Notion only rendered text but they do not. There is a lot of data structures around what looks like "just text", including images and everything else.

I agree that Notion has big performance problems, and I myself left it for logseq a long time ago just because of the performance issues and the non-flexible architecture overall. But Notion's performance issues are not about rendering text, it's rendering everything but text.

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

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Post by it33 »

AnonHP wrote: post #4

It would’ve been more convenient to me if this project provided standalone downloads for macOS and Windows. The current downloads for the Desktop version are only available through the respective app stores on these two platforms.

Focalboard team here. Thanks for the feedback! Opened feature idea ticket on this here: https://github.com/mattermost/focalboard/issues/99

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

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Post by capableweb »

isitdopamine wrote: post #110
madpata wrote: post #99

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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.

Your complaint is basically saying "Hey, I don't need this professional workstation just to run Notepad, what is going on in the world?!" while professional workstations are not for running just Notepad, they are for doing a lot more things than that.

Here you are complaining that a "hello world" uses a lot of memory. Yes, that's true, but the use case for Electron is not to display just "hello world", it's to build full, accessible applications in languages who are usually native on the web.

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