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Could you expand on what restrictions they have placed on the community version?

At the very least their app store, which is pretty much required for OIDC, most 2FA methods, and some other features, stops working at 500 users. AFAIK you can still manually install addons, it's just the integration that's gone, though I'm not 100% sure. Same with their notification push service (which is apparently closed source?[0]), which wouldn't be as much of an issue if there were proper docs on how to stand up your own instance of that.

IIRC they also display a banner on the login screen to all users advertising the enterprise license, and start emailing enterprise ads to all admin users.

Their "fair use policy"[1] also includes some "and more" wording.

[0] https://github.com/nextcloud/notifications/issues/82

[1] https://nextcloud.com/fairusepolicy/

> their app store, which is pretty much required for OIDC, most 2FA methods, and some other features, stops working at 500 users

How dare they. I just want to share photos and calendar with the 502 people in my immediate family.

This may come as a surprise to you, but there are organizations, for example German municipalities, that have more than 500 users but can't afford to start pumping tens or hundreds of thousands per year into a file sharing service. Nextcloud themselves recognize this and offer 95%+ discounts to edu, similar to what Adobe, Microsoft, and Git[Hub,Lab] are doing.

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