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[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Unfortunately nextcloud sucks

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago (2 children)

So use some of that money saved to pay some nextcloud developers to improve it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

The money saved will pay for one dev, or two if you cheap out

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

They need to refactor architecture. But all they do is stupid hub, communication that noone use.

They need to move to swoole and hyperf but they are not showing any intention and dumping all the money into crap.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (4 children)

I was thinking about trying it out on my server. Why does it suck?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I wouldn't say categorically that it sucks.

  1. It is inefficient and requires far too many server resources for what it does. Won't really run on less than 2gb/RAM minimum, with 1-2 users.

  2. Add ONS seem to be all over the place with lots of incompatibilities, some default add ons that just plain don't work.

  3. In my short testing it seems to be a bit unstable.

In my opinion, it suffers from many of the same problems as other projects that started out and we're developed largely by hobbyists like zoneminder, and even home assistant to some extent. Sprawling growth, no strict architecture, little concern for refactoring.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Interesting. What would you recommend as an alternative?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

I'm not sure myself, there seems to be better software out there for each individual part of what nextcloud does, but not the whole thing. I've been reading up on open cloud, which is a fork of a rewrite of owncloud, which is what nextcloud is forked from. https://opencloud.eu/en/opencloud-community

I haven't tried it out yet though.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

I've been using it for over a decade. I use it to auto upload all my family photos from family phones. I use the calendars to organize. I use Notes on my phone all the time and pick them up my laptop. I use Passwords for all my passwords. I use Contacts to sync my contacts from my phone and Thunderbird. Then I nightly remote backup it to a machine I leave at my parent's. It's great.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Personal/Family use is fine, it's kinda fiddly but so is most selfhosted software.

At an organizational level, that fiddliness spirals into a ton of work, which doesn't really overlap with other IT Duties in the way that troubleshooting OneDrive usually ends up solving problems with the whole Microsoft suite.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

In my experience troubleshooting OneDrive issues is usually just restarting the OneDrive application or resyncing SharePoint sites

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

It's based on legacy share nothing PHP architecture which is extremely inefficient for something like nextcloud