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I would also like to see this comparison. And for good measure it’d be great to also include Versatiles in this comparison.

It's been a while since I used OnlyOffice, can't really speak to its performance.

I think mostly the sluggishness comes from some input delay in the browser. When you open a Collabora Calc document and select any random cell, it just takes a couple of hundred miliseconds till the cell is actually selected. I can reproduce this with brand new instances, no matter how beefy the server is.

In my opinion it’s not a good alternative if you or your team members expect exactly the same quality of service. When you switch to Nextcloud you’ll have to expect more bugs, less reliability, less performance and obviously more maintenance (since it's typically self-hosted) compared to Google Drive, Dropbox or One Drive. So you'll have to go into this with a different kind of mindset. What you gain is independence, privacy and extendability due to a rather big platform ecosystem.

E.g. here are some specific things and examples of things you'll have to deal with, in no specific order. These are just some things I've had to deal with recently.

- You'll have to educate people in your group that there are at least 3 different ways to share files among each other and that they can all coexist in parallel (Individual Shares vs. Group Shares vs. Group folders vs. Circles/Teams) (I did a german blog post on this: https://bitbetter.de/blog/nextcloud-freigabe-chaos/)

- Handling of file/folder names with special characters is a mess e.g. if you have Windows and Linux clients there will most certainly be conflicts. (Luckily this has been fixed recently by the `forbidden_filename_characters` config option – which is not enforced yet via the Web UI) see https://github.com/nextcloud/ios/issues/2802

- Creating Nextcloud users with spaces in their names, will break CalDAV on iOS Devices (https://github.com/nextcloud/server/issues/15641)

- Nextcloud (aka Collabora) Office is very slow if you want to actually work collaboratively with it (no matter the power of your Collabora server) – unfortunately it's no match for Google Docs or Office 365

Don't get me wrong: It's still a fantastic Open Source project with tons of talented people and it's a beacon of hope in the GAFA world. Everyone should try it out (and help it evolve) so it can be better than the commercial alternatives. But going into this and expecting to get the same kind of product quality like Google Drive/One Drive/Dropbox will lead to disappointment.

How about you give it a try first? It uses about 1/4 of resources as Nextcloud in my experience, is a lot faster and has a way nicer UI.

Performance of the S3 backend was pretty bad compared to local storage folders on the same host, last time I checked.

There’s OCIS now, which is a very good alternative if you’re only looking for a file sync solution (without all the App platform aspects of Nextcloud)

You missed Ente (https://ente.io)

I meant “room directory”, not “room list”. Can’t edit the comment anymore :(

Matrix: Protocol (like SMTP/IMAP)

Element: The most popular client (like Thunderbird)

Element X: Rewrite of Element based on Rust and native UI components

Synapse: Most popular Matrix server (like Dovecot)

Element Call: Video/Audio conferencing (like Jitsi)

Element Server Suite (ESS): Paid SaaS solution that wraps all of the mentioned components into a simple turnkey solution.

You can also host it yourself, but what ESS offers is a combination of multiple discrete services. You’re gonna have to host Synapse itself, the Matrix Authentication Service (for native OIDC), Element Call (which requires LiveKit) and Element Web.

I think many of these features are fantastic and Matrix 2.0 is a great set of features. However I think Element X is still missing quite a number of features for (my personal) daily use (e.g. spaces, threads and roomlist). Also it's not available for Intel-based Macs, which makes it unusable for many of my team members :(

Yes, it's included (and enabled by default) since v1.114.0, which came out 3 weeks ago. It's a modified version of Sliding Sync (called Simplified Sliding Sync), but it works just the same. So you can deprecate/shut down existing sliding sync proxies.

Can anyone shed light on the timeline behind the rollout of the Temporal API? I've been reading about it for many years, and it's always "soon" or "right around the corner". I'm kind of annoyed by all this teasing.

> Everything about Bitwarden is fine for a single, technical user, but it's not for sharing secrets with non-technical family members at any scale. It's just too clumsy with too many sharp edges.

I don't know. I guess it depends on what you compare it to. I've used Bitwarden in some pretty non-technical surroundings and it worked fine. Compared to a "single file" PW manager (like KeePass), I'd say it's still pretty easy to use within a team or group of "non-technical" users.

Granted, not as good as 1PW, but still a lot better than KeePass et al.

Oh the irony of this article being covered by a consent screen that starts with:

„We & our 735 technology partners ask you to consent to the use of cookies to store and access personal data on your device.“

I don't know anything about audio jacks, but on the Docs page, there is an image, where the audio jack is labelled as "3.5mm TRRS Audio Jack".

And then here is one of the biggest backend JS frameworks (NestJS) clinging to CJS/holding off on migrating to ES modules. https://github.com/nestjs/nest/issues/13319

Missing some (big?) contenders in this post: KeystoneJS and Strapi.

Same here. I enjoyed Traefik for being able to use docker tags for my reverse proxy configuration. The mechanism is great, however I did not like Traefiks internal config structure. Caddy is much easier for me to understand and matches my (small scale) use cases much better. Using Caddy via Docker labels through caddy-docker-proxy is about as perfect as it gets (for me).

Thanks! Couldn't find it in the sites metadata.

I wish the site offered a RSS feed and/or Fediverse account. Great content.

Wish they included alternatives like nanoid.

Thanks! That looks really good!

I have a newbie question around Keyboard firmware: I built a simple Macro-Pad based on the RP2040. I want to use it under macOS for application-specific functionality. However, I cannot find a firmware that allows me to change/define Macros during runtime. I find it very cumbersome to always compile and flash a new firmware, whenever I want to change a simple Macro.

What am I missing?

Yeah, unfortunately like with many other „federated XYZ“ projects, it’s the lack of good UI that stops me from using it.

I applaud the author for keeping a minimal footprint with vanilla JS and CSS. But this is very hard to maintain and understand for outsiders and makes Frontend tasks very tedious. Would love to help and contribute some stuff, but the stack is just not for me.

Still hope this succeeds. The idea is fantastic.

Agree. The "reality distortion field" around Nextcloud fans is second to none. I hear it being touted as a replacement for Dropbox, Google Drive, Google Docs, OneDrive, Office 365, etc. Unfortunately it's none of those.

Thanks for the reminder. I still expect Roundcube to become a well-maintained alternative for E-Mail clients within Nextcloud, right?

Not sure which "focus on hub/groupware" you're talking about. Some groupware features are still horribly buggy and understaffed (e.g. the whole mess of co-existing methods of sharing files/folders with groups – Share vs. Group Folder vs. Collectives/Circles – or the crazy amount of WebDav and CalDav bugs that have been existing for many years), while "AI" (or some other buzzwordy technology) gets all the focus.

As much as I hat to say it, but feature wise it's not very close to being a Microsoft 365 alternative.

I'm glad the post states that Roundcube will stay an independent product.

Roundcube is on a whole other level in terms of stability and robustness compared to Nextcloud.

I'm also glad that the current Nextcloud client will be replaced, because it's not very good right now.

The irony of a website for an ad-blocking extension showing it's own Ad (blocking modal for the author's side project).