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Why Nextcloud feels slow to use

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Re: Why Nextcloud feels slow to use

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Post by Saris »

joshgachnang wrote: post #5
floundy wrote: post #2

I'm still setting up my own home server, adding one functionality at a time. I wanted to like Nextcloud but it's just too bloated. Radicale is a good calendar replacement. I'd rather have single-function apps at this point.

Any good file syncing/drive replacements? My Synology exists pretty much because Synology Drives works so well syncing Mac and iOS.

Syncthing is great, but doesnt offer selective sync or virtual files if you need those features.

Owncloud infinite scale might be the best option for a full featured file sync setup, as thats all it does.

Re: Why Nextcloud feels slow to use

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Post by tokarf »

Nextcloud not perfect but it's still one of a major project that has not shifted to business oriented licence and where all components are available and not paywalled with enterprise edition.

So yes not perfect, bloated js but it works and is maintained.

So I'd rather thanks all developers involved in nextcloud than whine about bloated js.

Re: Why Nextcloud feels slow to use

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Post by sira04 »

joshgachnang wrote: post #5
floundy wrote: post #2

I'm still setting up my own home server, adding one functionality at a time. I wanted to like Nextcloud but it's just too bloated. Radicale is a good calendar replacement. I'd rather have single-function apps at this point.

Any good file syncing/drive replacements? My Synology exists pretty much because Synology Drives works so well syncing Mac and iOS.

Pretty happy with Resilio Sync. I use it on Mac, and linux in a docker container.

Re: Why Nextcloud feels slow to use

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Post by zeagle »

joshgachnang wrote: post #5
floundy wrote: post #2

I'm still setting up my own home server, adding one functionality at a time. I wanted to like Nextcloud but it's just too bloated. Radicale is a good calendar replacement. I'd rather have single-function apps at this point.

Any good file syncing/drive replacements? My Synology exists pretty much because Synology Drives works so well syncing Mac and iOS.

I went from cloud to local smb shares to nextcloud to seafile. Really happy with the latter. Works, no bloat, versioning and some file sharing. The pro version is free with 3 or less usernames. I use the cli client to mount the libraries into folders and share that with smb + subst X: into the root directory on laptops for family. Borgbackup of that offsite for backup.

Re: Why Nextcloud feels slow to use

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Post by mickael-kerjean »

bArray wrote: post #15

NextCloud does feel slow. What I want is not only a cloud service that does lots of common tasks, but it also should do it lightly and simply. I'm extremely tempted to write a lightweight alternative. I'm thinking sourcehut [1] vs GitHub. [1] https://sourcehut.org/

I made one such lightweight alternative frontend: https://github.com/mickael-kerjean/filestash

Re: Why Nextcloud feels slow to use

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Post by zeagle »

branon wrote: post #11

I have been considering https://bewcloud.com/ + Immich as an alternative Nextcloud's client support is very good though and it has some great apps, I use PhoneTrack on road trips a lot

Immich is a night and day improvement for photos vs nextcloud. You could roll it in addition if you wanted to try.
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