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Am I the only one who missed the Owncloud rewrite in Go? (owncloud.com)

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by Lem453@lemmy.ca to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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The topic of self-hosted cloud software comes up often but I haven't seen anyone mention owncloud infinite scale (the rewrite in Go).

I started my cloud experience with owncloud years ago. Then there was a schism and almost all the active devs left for the nextcloud fork.

I used nextcloud from it's inception until last year but like many others it always felt brittle (easy to break something) and half baked (features always seemed to be at 75% of what you want).

As a result I decided to go with Seafile and stick to the Unix philosophy. Get an app that does one thing very well rather than a mega app that tries to do everything.

Seafile does this very well. Super fast, works with single sign on etc. No bloat etc.

Then just the other day I discovered that owncloud has a full rewrite. No php, no Apache etc. Check the github, multiple active devs with lots of activity over the last year etc. The project seems stronger than ever and aims to fix the primary issues of nextcloud/owncloud PHP. Also designed for cloud deployment so works well with docker, should be easy to configure via docker variables instead of config files mapped into the container etc.

Anyways, the point of this thread is:

If you never heard of it like me then check it out
If you have used it please post your experiences compared to NextCloud, Seafile etc.

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[–] vzq@lemmy.blahaj.zone 15 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I run seafile, but holy shit do I regret looking at the source code.

[–] WeAreAllOne@lemm.ee 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Why is that?

[–] vzq@lemmy.blahaj.zone 27 points 2 years ago (1 children)

There was something wonky with the mapping of OIDC attributes to user properties, so I decided to look at the seahub source and see if it would be easy to fix.

Turns out, the whole thing is held together with hope and spit. Literal beginner code.

[–] Lem453@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Also looking through some of the issues and comments on github about no plans to implement basic features (file search on the android app) does not inspire confidence at all. One of the reasons I'm hoping the OwnCloud rewrite is good.