jancborchardt

It used to be CC0 on Unsplash but some time ago they moved from that to a custom license with some special restrictons, which makes it impossible to use in other Creative Commons work: https://unsplash.com/license This also happened to a lot of other similar photo sites unfortunately.

Preferred for the feed would be RSS I’d say, but maybe Twitter is good on top for promo.

Thank you!

Really nice! Since Unsplash is mentioned in the About page, I hope it doesn’t go the same way with a strange non-CC license at some point. (Also ideally sticking to just Attribution and Share-Alike as now. :)

I tried out the feed at /feed but it seems to be empty – is there a way to get updates of new additions?

> At this point, my only criticisms are that I think the installation should be more idiot-friendly, and the UI smells of 2012.

One of the Nextcloud designers here – thank you for the honest feedback! :)

Could you share some more details on these two things specifically? - Where did you have issues with the installation? On the website, download, permissions, install page, etc.? - Which parts of the UI you see as outdated? Is it the web interface, specific apps, the desktop client, the mobile apps, all of it? Any specific things which seem off to you and we should focus on?

We continuously work on improving the design of course. As it is we are not so many designers, as unfortunately the problem is in open source. Also we’ve been working on many things in parallel like accessibility, standardization, the new Vue components, and of course our breadth of apps, etc.

So thanks for bringing this up! We’ll do better.

For small apps like these, sign up is really a pain. That is why a friend and I have been working on a simplified version, which is mostly based on links so you can also easy share a tab: https://grouptabs.net

We also try to keep the interface very simple, and it works offline.

Nextcloud designer here, thanks for the kind words! What’s something UX-wise that you’d like to see us focus on, or where you have suggestions?

If you’re a designer, we’re also always looking for contributors :) https://nextcloud.com/design/

Nextcloud designer here, also working on Nextcloud Text. :)

Big thanks to ProseMirror https://prosemirror.net and tiptap https://tiptap.scrumpy.io which we use as a base for the app!

And of course as always with Nextcloud, the Text app is open source and everyone is welcome to give feedback and contribute: https://github.com/nextcloud/text

Disclaimer: I’m part of the Nextcloud team (and formerly ownCloud before we forked).

With Nextcloud we don’t offer hosting for a reason – we would compete with Google, Dropbox, Amazon etc. in a race to the bottom, and it wouldn’t be private either. nathan-io said it very well already in their reply.

Another thing which then makes it super simple for people to self-host is a) PHP (yes, we got ridiculed soo much for that through the years …) and b) a dead-simple installation which in the simplest case (with SQLite) only asks for username and password you want for the admin. Most importantly, we use open standards and formats like WebDAV, CalDAV, CardDAV, IMAP, gpx, ActivityPub, etc. which makes Nextcloud universally compatible.

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However, for people who do want to simply sign up we do have an easy way: https://nextcloud.com/signup/ – this is also very presently available as "Sign up with a provider" in the mobile and desktop apps.

How it works:

- We have a list of participating providers (of which there are many more at https://nextcloud.com/providers/ ) with some strict guidelines like minimum storage space, minimum set of specific apps, uptime, reliability, etc.

- On the signup site or step we show exactly 1 provider (instead of a list like Mastodon etc.) to not overwhelm people with choice. This is based on your location and it just shows the nearest one, assuming it’s probably best regarding law and performance. There’s an option to "change provider" right below the provider.

- The only thing we ask for is your email address, and you only have to wait shortly while they provision your new instance. Sign up approaches the simplicity of Google or Dropbox this way.

I’m curious to see how it will fare for you, and wish you best of luck. If you ever want to join us or collaborate regarding integration, you are very welcome → https://nextcloud.com/contribute/

There’s always Riot https://about.riot.im/ which is a nice and fully open source app so you could set that up on-premise too. :)

As far as I can see, Tent unfortunately seems to be inactive. Last commit in 2013: https://github.com/tent/tentd, last blog post 2014: https://tent.io/blog

Yeah, that would be me. :) At some point we supported it, but it turned out that for security reasons you would have to have a separate domain for your remoteStorage than your Nextcloud – which kind of defeats the purpose of easy integration.

At leas that is what I recall. Still think it would be great to integrate remoteStorage properly with Nextcloud! :)

Nextcloud designer here, thanks for mentioning and good to hear you’re happy! :)

Everyone is welcome to contribute at https://github.com/nextcloud/ :) And in case anyone is in Berlin, we’re having our annual conference at the moment! https://nextcloud.com/conf/

A good open source email server is https://mailinabox.email/ :)

My partner is doing an incubator program called Social-Digital Innovation Initiative: https://sdinnovation.org

The basic idea is to bring together a person who knows of a specific social issue, and a tech person who wants to help solve it. Together they are the core team and are helped to work on their project, form a non-profit, get conmections etc.

At the moment the program is piloting in Berlin. It's planned to expand to Hungary, Austria and ideally other areas. If you are interested, drop by at one of the barcamp/unconference events or check out the website. :)

Might be best to report it at https://github.com/fossjobs/fossjobs/issues :)

If you’re up for contributing a simple timeout or something like that I guess the developers would appreciate that a lot :) https://github.com/fossjobs/fossjobs/

Thanks for pointing that out! :) While of course showcasing the community is great, doing it just based on commits inherently skews towards developers and ignores others like designers, translators, documentation writers, community people etc.

Just added Mike and some others of the list to our Open Source Design collective at https://github.com/opensourcedesign – if you want to be part of it as well let me know. :)

Thanks, just fixed it. ;)

Jan from the Nextcloud team here. If you have any questions don’t hesitate to ask. :) We’re very happy with the new release, especially the the improvements on security and performance.

Also I like our new video chat a lot. ;) As you know it’s all open source, so any contribution is welcome! https://github.com/nextcloud

Yeah, sometimes I’m really annoyed about the lack of collaboration between different open source projects. Asked them if they plan on working together: https://twitter.com/jancborchardt/status/800805611822665728

Because their first sentence is just incorrect:

> Is there a need for such a database? Absolutely. Today, there is no database on Swiss food products that is truly open, free, and - perhaps most importantly - programmatically accessible via an API).

- Swiss products http://world.openfoodfacts.org/country/switzerland

- API http://world.openfoodfacts.org/data

Granted, Open Food Facts needs some design improvements. But why work on a Swiss-only system with nice design when there is a way bigger and more established platform already in place.

I’d recommend you too to take a look at Nextcloud News then: https://github.com/nextcloud/news/#nextcloud-news-app :)

Did you try out Nextcloud News? https://github.com/nextcloud/news/#nextcloud-news-app

We have a more modern design than Tiny Tiny RSS, are way friendlier, and if you would contribute that’d be majorly awesome! :)

We do that with Nextcloud News: https://github.com/nextcloud/news/#nextcloud-news-app

I’d be interested in what you think about it. It’s completely open source, so any feedback or contribution is much appreciated! :)

Also just to add to this: The Nextcloud Box is a device running Nextcloud, not our main product. :) The focus continues to be the software, which is the server and the apps for syncing.

All 100% open source at https://github.com/nextcloud – and any contributions are very welcome! :)

Just to add to what Scott said: One important part is that the Nextcloud Box is just a device running Nextcloud. It’s not the main product. :) We focus on developing the software, which is 100% open source and at https://github.com/nextcloud

(Disclaimer: I used to be Design Lead at ownCloud and moved to Nextcloud.)

We do have an IMAP app for mail https://github.com/nextcloud/mail

You can run that together with a Dovecot for example. It integrates nicely with Nextcloud Contacts for autocompletion and Files for attachments. Testing and contributions are very much welcome! :)

Well, this is part of why we forked it to Nextcloud (disclaimer: I used to be Design Lead at ownCloud and moved to Nextcloud).

We’re focusing a lot more on stability and innovation, and if you look at the Github statistics, you’ll see that our activity surpasses ownCloud’s by a magnitude.

Thanks a lot! We’re always happy about feedback if you have any. :)

The Raspberry Pi is the obvious choice because it’s very widely available. :) Raspberry Pi 3 compatibility is coming with the next version.

For Nextcloud itself people like to of course hate about it being in PHP just for the sake of it. But the simple fact is that it enables a lot of people to run it. And if we want a viable alternative, then that is paramount.

Do you have one? If so, what exactly bothers you about it in practice?

Yeah, actually regarding the power plug which sticks out we are exploring to use a right-angled cable since lots of people mentioned it.