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

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Post by sneak »

it33 wrote: post #121
sneak wrote: post #46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I am aware that one can build the app from source; my comments were orthogonal to that. It is customary for open source projects that involve complicated or proprietary build processes to provide binaries which one can simply download and run. App Store releases are decidedly not this: they include DRM, and have as a requirement the provision of personal information to (and agreement to an onerous legal contract with…

Focalboard team here. Added a feature idea on providing binaries: https://github.com/mattermost/focalboard/issues/99 Thanks for your feedback! We'd love to hear more. We just setup this page with links on how to get more involved: https://github.com/mattermost/focalboard/wiki/Share-your-fee... !

Rip out your spyware first, it's a bigger problem than forcing users to the App Store.

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

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Post by adontz »

it33 wrote: post #122

Focalboard team here! Huge thanks to everyone who's sharing feedback and comments. It is super exciting to be trending on HackerNews! We've just put up a new Wiki page for people to share feature ideas, to join our Discourse forum, and to report bugs: https://github.com/mattermost/focalboard/wiki/Share-your-fee... ! Thank y'all so much for being interested in our project and our space! We've been working super hard t…

I have posted an enhancement https://github.com/mattermost/focalboard/issues/103 But cannot attach labels :-(

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

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Post by movedx »

scq wrote: post #104
movedx wrote: post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

I honestly think I'll just use Vim, a "~/notes" directory and my already powerful file searching functionality built into Vim (fzf powered I think it's called)

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

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Post by it33 »

adontz wrote: post #132
it33 wrote: post #122

Focalboard team here! Huge thanks to everyone who's sharing feedback and comments. It is super exciting to be trending on HackerNews! We've just put up a new Wiki page for people to share feature ideas, to join our Discourse forum, and to report bugs: https://github.com/mattermost/focalboard/wiki/Share-your-fee... ! Thank y'all so much for being interested in our project and our space! We've been working super hard t…

I have posted an enhancement https://github.com/mattermost/focalboard/issues/103 But cannot attach labels :-(

Whoops, updating instructions: https://github.com/mattermost/focalboard/wiki/Share-your-fee...!

Now asking folks to add `Enhancement:` prefix on tickets, and we can label after

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

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Post by alpaca128 »

blowski wrote: post #128
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…

What's the problem with fragmentation? I guess you're thinking of wasted effort, split mindshare amongst users. But for me, fragmentation is one of the key benefits of open source. Let thousands of alternatives bloom!

Absolutely. I have grown to dislike this often repeated "don't reinvent the wheel" stance. After some thought you realise 100% of mastering any art is based on imitating and rebuilding existing achievements, because that gives us the basis for aiming even higher with our own ideas.

When we blindly copy our own "Hello World" program into a text file nobody bats an eye. When a group of musicians play a metal song on classical instruments it's called a cover. But when someone builds their own database to have some fun and get better in-depth understanding of the tech you will always find someone whining about the not-invented-here-syndrome.

Effort isn't wasted just because it didn't change the world.

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

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Post by Aeolun »

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…

It’s impressive they knew of this (original bug is 20hr old) but still decided to go ahead and post on HN.

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

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Post by Aeolun »

aidenn0 wrote: post #29
Aeolun wrote: post #6

This would be easier to test out if I could just run a docker image instead of doing a whole nginx configuration.

nginx? I did the following and it ran just fine: make webapp make bin/focalboard-server

The server installation instructions start with configuring nginx to do something. That’s where I bounced.

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

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Post by Aeolun »

fimdomeio wrote: post #87
sneak wrote: post #54

Note: this, although self-hosted, appears to transmit your usage data without consent (just like the selfhosted Mattermost server from the same people): https://github.com/mattermost/focalboard/blob/main/server/se... Anyone want to offer me odds on the likelihood of a patch removing this spyware getting accepted by the maintainer in this “open source” project?

Apparently there's a config option to turn off telemetry. https://www.focalboard.com/guide/admin/ While I understand the feeling, it's also truth that these kinds of projects appear to receive a lot more criticism than if they went completely closed source which feels a bit unfair.

Every single time someone asks me if they can turn on telemetry I’m perfectly ok with it. But if they default to on I know what I’m dealing with and I don’t want them to have it.

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

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Post by andrewSC »

Reventlov wrote: post #112
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…

The one I got bit by yesterday was team-edition not offering basic HA/cluster functionality. Oh well, vertical scaling here I come! Also, i’m not sure if the helm chart is officially maintained or a community-only effort, however, I’d love to see the addition of being able to configure/use imagePullSecrets. Also, general fixes to the values yaml.
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