ownCloud becomes part of Kiteworks - ownCloud
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Kiteworks and ownCloud join forces to underscore its commitment to the DACH market.

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

  • cron@feddit.deEnglish
    11·
    1 year ago

    Nice rant ;)

    I did never have any problems with installing it, but once or twice with upgrading. And I agree with you that the setup is complex with all the possible options and getting it to run well takes some time.

    When it comes to the apps, Nextcloud is a very open system. Its easy to publish an app, and the quality of the apps varies. Some apps are abandoned and don’t work in recent versions. Personally, I would recommend to keep the number of apps low for stability and security reasons.

    • AggressivelyPassive@feddit.deEnglish
      3·
      1 year ago

      The update process is absolutely horrible, especially with containers.

      I seriously cannot understand how this hasn’t been fixed ages ago. Upgrading is kind of important and nextcloud isn’t doing that much weird stuff that it didn’t upgrade itself.

      • 8rhn6t6s@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        I agree. I even had a documentation how to upgrade my instance since I keep on breaking it every time.

    • hakunawazo@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      That was the case for me. I had a nextcloud setup with a few productivity apps (calendar, contacts, notes, some 3rd party). In one case I forgot to deactivate apps before update and it crashed. In another case I deactivated it first to find out they are partially not usable anymore after update.

      Now I try it with one container app for one use case (seafile, baikal etc.).