The only thing I use gdocs for is collaboration. What are some of y'all's favorite alternatives?
Self hosted owncloud with onlyoffice
Google suspends romance author's account for writing sexually explicit content
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Re: Google suspends romance author's account for writing sexually explicit content
#12The only thing I use gdocs for is collaboration. What are some of y'all's favorite alternatives?
backups in managed next cloud in hetzner.
Re: Google suspends romance author's account for writing sexually explicit content
#13The only thing I use gdocs for is collaboration. What are some of y'all's favorite alternatives?
Notion is okay. a bit heavy mem-wise( ). i don't know how much it costs. ( ) Recently I had a tab taking 644MB in Chromium (with no pix). After a ctrl-A, ctrl-C, and ctrl-V into notepad++, it was 52kB. That's about 10,000x...
Notion is $99/yr + $99/yr for AI access.
While its database is useful, having no offline access is a big bummer. I don't use its AI features.
Re: Google suspends romance author's account for writing sexually explicit content
#14"I keep all my work on Google/Apple/Dropbox/Office" is really the new version of "I kept all my work on my hard drive and didn't back it up". All of these companies have shown repeatedly that they will cut off your access with no notice for any or no reason and with no recourse. Cloud backups used to be a smart thing to do. Now they are a liability.
All your eggs in 1 basket is never good.
Local hard drive + a cloud provider should give you like 99.999999% reliability
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Re: Google suspends romance author's account for writing sexually explicit content
#16The post only says "An author lost access to her explicit writing", which sound to me that she cannot access that document anymore, not her account got suspended (I skimmed over comments and didn't see people said otherwise). Of course in this particular case, it might be worse (because she lost her entire writing if without backup), but it's not the same as losing an account. Anyway, it won't surprise me if she did…
From the thread it sounds like they only took away their ability to share. They still have access to the account and everything on it.
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Re: Google suspends romance author's account for writing sexually explicit content
#17The only thing I use gdocs for is collaboration. What are some of y'all's favorite alternatives?
I continue to use Dropbox & Google Drive, with weekly backups to a hard drive, which are versioned with Borg.
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#18Doesn’t seem like a big deal - unshare it and copy to another platform, e.g. directly on discord, for sharing.
Google really needs to stop preemptively locking accounts, though. They also need to warn ahead of time when someone is going to do something “bad”.
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#19This is terrifying. I'm a writer, and all my work is backed up on Google. Some of it likely only exists there. I'm literally shaking my head here in incredulity. How could anyone at Google have thought that this was a good idea?
Re: Google suspends romance author's account for writing sexually explicit content
#20"I keep all my work on Google/Apple/Dropbox/Office" is really the new version of "I kept all my work on my hard drive and didn't back it up". All of these companies have shown repeatedly that they will cut off your access with no notice for any or no reason and with no recourse. Cloud backups used to be a smart thing to do. Now they are a liability.
They were always a liability.
They were only ever "the smart thing" because they took some hassle away at the point of creating the backup.