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I guess that means it's dead, as there's no way a corporation would pay millions to acquire a competitor just to continue developing a free alternative to their own product

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[-] jzb@lemmy.ml 34 points 11 months ago

How has ownCloud development compared to NextCloud since the split?

[-] cron@feddit.de 27 points 11 months ago

Badly. Nextcloud is a very active project with many plugins and integrations. You can even integrate a mail system and AI image tagging, chat and video calls.

Owncloud focussed more on the enterprise sector and less on fancy features. Definitely the more stable product (but not only in the positive sense).

[-] wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world 12 points 11 months ago

I tried NC recently (like 2 weeks ago) and fuck me it's an awful piece of shit, full-stop. It broke completely 3x during initial setup, needing a container wipe and beginning from scratch each time, then I was following the official docs and the 'status / security' page of the admin area where it told me to do something that had no gui (so they are 100% aware anyone new has to do this but cba to throw it a fucking web page) and if you edit the config file on the machine directly, even if you stop the container, it breaks permissions (???) so you have to download it from your server, edit, and re-upload it (somehow doesn't break permissions???). This took an hour to figure out, the doc was useless.

Then you get to the plug-in page and fuck me could this be any worse. Pick one fucking category each, guys, I don't need to see 40% of the same available plug-ins on almost every fucking category, jesus fucking christ. Then you dive into these things and you realize how surface-level they are - a task/to-do list should have a fucking import/export function, as well as REPEATING OPTIONS fuck me sideways are you seriously taking the piss. You'll be setting up other plug-ins and they don't actually function at all even though they have been verified to work with your version (medical plug in, for example) and it just keeps crumbling around you the further you go. Shit, even the weather widget on the 'home page' will show C instead of F when you select a country during account setup that uses F, with NO OBVIOUS WAY TO CHANGE THAT. The fix? Go through your region options, pick a different country, then back to your actual. Does NOBODY EVEN TEST THIS SHIT? How are they on version SIX of their 'hub'?! This screams alpha, not multiple-stable-releases!

Gahhhhh, fuck!

/rant

[-] LDerJim@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

Part of the problem is you don't understand how containers work. If you need to do a 'container wipe' and starting from scratch, you're doing it wrong.

I've been running nextcloud in k8s for years and running a few occ upgrade commands after an upgrade is annoying but not the end of the world.

[-] wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

Deleting a container and starting again from scratch = wipe

[-] LDerJim@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

Yeah, exactly. If you're starting over from scratch constantly you're doing something wrong. Check out https://docs.docker.com/storage/ for a few options on how you should be managing your storage.

[-] wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

This is the only container I've had anywhere near the amount of trouble with, others it's just pulling a new image or something. I've been doing docker for like 5 years now, NC was just awful. Shouldn't need to nuke anything while you're still in the initial service setup phase...

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