Am I the only one who doesn’t trust Nextcloud because they use Vimeo instead of a privacy-respecting CDN to showcase videos of their project?
Nextcloud Hub 26 Spring: Built together, designed for the future
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Re: Nextcloud Hub 26 Spring: Built together, designed for the future
#32I love Nextcloud but I feel like they should really completely redo their UI. It just doesn't look like something from this decade.
Wait, you don't feel so?
I have maintained a Nextcloud server for a small business for the last 6 years. I agree when I started using it early 2020 that the ui felt less modern, but after some updates down the road up until now it looks completely like it is from this era. Am I missing something? However, I never complained about the UI neither then nor now.
Re: Nextcloud Hub 26 Spring: Built together, designed for the future
#33Re: Nextcloud Hub 26 Spring: Built together, designed for the future
#34If I want to buy a small NAS that just runs Nextcloud and has a copy of my Google Photos library - what do I go with? I don't have a ton of space so something that fits in the media center.
Google photos will become one way sync only in august. You can upload to cloud, but no sync to pc.
Re: Nextcloud Hub 26 Spring: Built together, designed for the future
#35This is a niche use, but I use the PhoneTrack app[1] with Nextcloud. It allows me to track my phone without relying on a third party service. It saved my ass already when I lost my phone in the park one night, and it's a nice way to track long hiking trips or road trips too as it saves the gpx and lets you export it:
Re: Nextcloud Hub 26 Spring: Built together, designed for the future
#36I left nextcloud because how slow it felt even on my beefy server. I switched to opencloud.eu, it might have less features but it's just what I needed
Re: Nextcloud Hub 26 Spring: Built together, designed for the future
#37Earlier quoted context omitted.
I always had terrible trouble keeping it (and before it, Owncloud) updated and in sync with available dependencies on my Debian host. A few years ago, when I built a new NAS, I installed a snap, and that's been the ticket. It's pretty close to flawless now.
Yeah, I eventually gave up on self hosting Nextcloud because of incompatibilities with PHP(-FPM), iirc. They were always lagging behind and it became a hassle to mantain. I ended up replacing all the parts I used with other single purpose software, and it's been a better experience overall.
Arch Linux added php-legacy and php-fpm-legacy, which tracks (I think) the oldest supported PHP release, a couple of years ago. After I switched to that it's been pretty smooth sailing.
Re: Nextcloud Hub 26 Spring: Built together, designed for the future
#38Is nextcloud the good one and owncloud the inferior one?
Nextcloud is written in PHP, which doesn't sound scalable to me. OwnCloud is written in Go but employs an open-core model. Some features are locked behind a proprietary paywall.
“OwnCloud infinite scale” is written in Go. But ownCloud 10 is php.
I tried for weeks to get OCIS working but gave up and went back to ownCloud 10.
They’re committed to security updates for 10 but it’s a small company. I doubt it will get much attention sadly.
Re: Nextcloud Hub 26 Spring: Built together, designed for the future
#39Am I the only one who doesn’t trust Nextcloud because they use Vimeo instead of a privacy-respecting CDN to showcase videos of their project?
Yes, you are the only one.
Re: Nextcloud Hub 26 Spring: Built together, designed for the future
#40NextCloud Notes is frustratingly broken for offline use. The UI bricks itself with its own error messages when it can't phone home to the server. Even notes which are marked in the app as "Make available offline" don't work offline!
The iOS applications also are quite poor. For example the home screen widget has never shown me any of my favorited items even though it should, I have many favorited items, it is fully synced when I'm on my home network, yet it says "no favorites".
Considering the size of NextCloud and how long they've been around I wish they would fully complete more of their offerings before launching a dozen new ones.