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   Kev Quirk (kev@fosstodon.org)'s status on Sunday, 15-Dec-2024 12:17:16 JST Kev Quirk

   I've tried Nextcloud a few times over the years, but every time I do, I end up coming away thinking it's shit. Here's why...
   https://kevquirk.com/blog/why-i-think-nextcloud-is-shit

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     Bob Jonkman (bobjonkman@mastodon.sdf.org)'s status on Sunday, 15-Dec-2024 12:17:16 JST Bob Jonkman

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     > Nextcloud tries to do too much [..] the result is that they're shit at everything, instead of being really good at a few things.

     Can't disagree with that. I originally set up OwnCloud in 2013 to be a self-hosted alternative to Google Calendar, and #Nextcloud does a good job as a CalDAV server. And it's expanded to do file syncing as well, but its desktop sync app has lost data - I just want to stop sync on a folder, the app insists on deleting the local copy. I say that's a bug.

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     Bob Jonkman (bobjonkman@mastodon.sdf.org)'s status on Sunday, 15-Dec-2024 12:17:16 JST Bob Jonkman

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     WebDAV works well enough for remote file access, but it's too slow for me to foist on anyone else.

     And I used Collabra to do some shared document editing, but it was a pain to set up (and still feels fragile). WebRTC has never worked, and anything on the #Nextcloud WebUI is awful.

     But Nextcloud is the least awful thing I've found that does these things, so I'm sticking with it for now.

     @kev