The thing that always killed it for me was the utterly bizarre arbitrary federated login requirement in an otherwise self hosted system. It meant it was impossible to use on an intranet, not to mention defeating the self hosted purpose.
As a community, many of our conversations and notes are spread across five or six servers in different people’s control. We’d like a better experience for that long term.
Email login is pretty good now though if you don’t want to deal with Google or GitHub, and now that LDAP and SAML is available for free, intranet is pretty doable with standard conventions known to most IT departments.
Sandstorm explains why they don't use Docker: https://sandstorm.io/news/2014-08-19-why-not-run-docker-apps
But the problem with the ease of adoption remains.
However, Sandstorm’s security model is a step beyone what something Docker based can offer.
I don't think so. Here's their license: https://git.cloudron.io/cloudron/box/blob/master/LICENSE
https://docs.sandstorm.io/en/latest/administering/faq/#why-d...
Though that doesn't address the intranet issue of course.