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They have a self-hosted online suite, it's called Collabora.

It's a spinoff

https://www.libreoffice.org/download/libreoffice-online/

The former LibreOffice development team from SUSE joined Collabora in September 2013 forming the subsidiary Collabora Productivity.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collabora_Online

I find it really odd that they chose server side rendering. I only did a very brief demo of it, but I was not impressed.

Yes, unfortunately. Makes impossible to work under unstable connections.

I hope Webasm enable porting at least some of the rendering code to client-side in the future.

Why not just use a desktop program with online features, then?

I'd assume that's less of a "chose" and more of technical limitation caused by wanting to reuse all the legacy code.

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