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> Written in old PHP and there is work underway to do a complete rewrite in Golang Wow [1], how cool would that be. I love that NextCloud exists and I plan to use it and call…

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2017	2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	1	0	1
2018	2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	7	1	6
2019	2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0	0
2020	2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	1	0	1
2021	2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	4	0	4
2022	2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2	0	2
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kitlop·May 7, 2025

Please enjoy my small, fully self-hosted podcast about diy'ing everything myself. Show notes: (00:00) What is included in the episode, and what will be released as part of episode 8 later this month. Revised description of what Linux Prepper is. (04:50) [Ameridroid](https://ameridroid.com/?ref=podcast) Sponsor - [Home Assistant Green](https://ameridroid.com/products/home-assistant-green?ref=pod...) - [Home Assistant Green w/ Skyconnect Zigbee & Matter Controller](https://ameridroid.com/products/home-assistant-green?ref=pod...) - [Skyconnect Zigbee & Matter Controller](https://ameridroid.com/products/skyconnect?ref=podcast) Use LINUXPREPPER coupon. (06:22) Trivia Challenges at Linuxfest Northwest - [Saturday Winners](https://discuss.james.network/public/d/31-saturday-winners-o...) - [Sunday Winners](https://discuss.james.network/public/

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d/32-sunday-winners-of-...) - [Linux Unplugged 612](https://www.jupiterbroadcasting.com/show/linux-unplugged/612...), around 7 minutes in. (17:26) On tabling at my first conference. Gratitude for meeting so many people and having this shared experience together! Ways to support me, especially in sharing the episodes to social media or with friends that would find this interesting! Thank you to those who are donating to support the show! - [Paypal](https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/jamesdotnetwork) (24:45) [Tahoe LAFS](https://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs) Decentralized object storage - [Request to mirror federated storage locally in Nextcloud server](https://github.com/nextcloud/server/issues/8459) - [Join our attempt to self-host Tahoe for a year!](https://discuss.james.network/public/d/33-join-our-attempt-t...) - Is it worth hosting decentralized services for others? - Is storing encrypted data for other people not worth it? - Have you hosted distributed tools between yourself and other people's servers? Did it succeed? Fail? (45:54) [Alby Hub](https://github.com/getAlby/hub) Fundraising to register a Self-hosted node. Thank you to those supporting the show on [Podcasting 2.0 clients](https://podcasting2.org/apps). - [Direct Donation link](https://getalby.com/p/sunjam) - [See related forum post](https://discuss.james.network/public/d/34-fundraising-podcas...) (47:20) [Sequoia Fabrica Makerspace](https://sequoiafabrica.org/) - [See related forum post](https://discuss.james.network/public/d/37-sequoia-fabrica-ma...) - [Wiki for Sequoia Fabrica](https://wiki.sequoiafabrica.org/wiki/Main_Page) - [Networking layout of the space](https://wiki.sequoiafabrica.org/wiki/Network) - [How to Host Events](https://wiki.sequoiafabrica.org/wiki/Events_Hosting) - [FAQ](https://sequoiafabrica.org/docs/faq) - [Noisebridge Hackerspace](https://www.noisebridge.net/wiki/Noisebridge) - [Spacebridge launches since 2024](https://www.noisebridge.net/wiki/Spacebridge:_The_Next_Gener...) - [Noisebridge's infrastructure Ansible](https://github.com/noisebridge/infrastructure) - [List of International Hackerspaces in your Area](https://wiki.hackerspaces.org/List_of_Hackerspaces).

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zaggynl·Mar 9, 2025

Thanks for the post, I just updated to 30.0.6 and have now turned off the settings as described here https://github.com/nextcloud/server/issues/51335#issuecommen... until a fix is out.

In New Nextcloud v31 default setting might leak out user data

preya2k·Sep 22, 2024

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 v

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s. 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.

In Ask HN: Is Nextcloud a Great Alternative to Dropbox/Google Drive for Startups?

dmacvicar·Nov 19, 2023

NextCloud does exactly this: AGPL, no CLA. https://github.com/nextcloud/server#contribution-guidelines- >Nextcloud doesn't require a CLA (Contributor License Agreement). The copyright belongs to all the individual contributors. Therefore we recommend that every contributor adds the following line to the header of a file if they changed it substantially: > >@copyright Copyright (c) <year>, <your name> (<your email address>)

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jasode·Aug 9, 2023

>, and you're done. It doesn't seem that simple. When I researched Nextcloud in the past, I avoided it because of warnings like the ones in this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25481465 Ctrl+F search that thread for "failure". If Nextcloud has solved whatever issues were happening in 2020, it still doesn't necessarily instill confidence because one can remain skeptical and assume there are new issues still happening in 2023. E.g. https://github.com/nextcloud/server/issues It's going to take some time to wade through all those Github issues to determine if there are any showstoppers that would affect one's installation. This doesn't look like a low-maintenance solution. The gp's wording of "dedicated the time" seems very relevant. Copy&paste of some YAML doesn't really address the work involved.

In I don't want to host services but I do

kayson·Apr 3, 2023

Encryption on Nextcloud is a mess. Something about their update process is enormously fragile and its often pain to do (side note: I recently discovered there's a CLI updater, and that's definitely the way to go). I eventually just had to give up on E2EE and shut then whole thing off, which was also a pain because I kept running into errors. Fortunately everything is stored on my homelab and my users are all family so they don't care if I can see their files. https://github.com/nextcloud/server/issues/24240 I really wish there was a high performance alternative with equally polished clients that didn't have all the enterprise "we need to make money" cruft.

In Desktop 3.8: End-to-End Encryption levels up with sharing and file-drop

cplli·Apr 3, 2023

I cannot possibly trust Nextcloud again. I was very skeptical to begin with, because it's a rather large and complex project built on PHP over many years (call this a personal/subjective view). But what really made my decision was when they broke the ability to delete (and/or modify) encrypted files. [0] [0]: https://github.com/nextcloud/server/issues/34744

In Desktop 3.8: End-to-End Encryption levels up with sharing and file-drop

jacooper·Oct 28, 2022

> OTOH, if you don't want anyone to use your software and if you want to stay poor, use a radioactive license like AGPL Lol, business HN look on the AGPL is truly funny, Because its made to stop people from using the code without contributing, which is exactly what you want to do. Also the biggest on-prem cloud system Nextcloud is under the AGPL, which has its own commercial company Nextcloud GmbH. https://github.com/nextcloud/server

In Preventing the bait and switch by open core software companies

huxflux·Jan 25, 2022

This is probably the reason why it ain't included: https://github.com/nextcloud/server/issues/13099

In Moving Google Contacts and Calendar to NextCloud

guerrilla·Aug 30, 2021Recommendation phrase

> Written in old PHP and there is work underway to do a complete rewrite in Golang Wow [1], how cool would that be. I love that NextCloud exists and I plan to use it and call me biased but god I hate to be running some PHP. I used to maintain a vulnerability database and I don't think I can ever trust a PHP project again at this point. Maybe things have changed but you'd find it very difficult to convince me. 1. https://github.com/nextcloud/server/issues/16726

In The open calendar, task and note space is a mess

solraph·Apr 16, 2021

Ironically, Nextcloud is moving to Golang. https://github.com/nextcloud/server/issues/16726

In PHP in 2021

mtmail·Mar 12, 2021

Based on the github issue https://github.com/nextcloud/server/issues/21370 I don't see anything unusual for such a large project. They have thousands of issues open, merge dozens of PRs per day. I wouldn't expect one can fix a bug in a complex project in only a couple of hours. When I submitted PRs to large projects I needed hours just to get the test suite running, read the contributor guidelines, provide test cases, all for a couple of lines of changes.

In Ask HN: Open-source cloud storage written Ruby on Rails

teekert·Jan 13, 2021

I understand the -1, but you have to understand that to a user the choice is sometimes between: 1. Create crappy bug report and move on quickly to get things done or: 2. Do not create a bug report and move on immediately, to get things done I try to file whenever I can but when it's getting late and I want to go to bed I choose option 1 sometimes. Maybe I should choose option 2? For example, take the Nextcloud bug filing template on GitHub [0]. It's quite a long read but sure, worth the effort for free software I agree (Nextcloud is my favorite project, my life is in there, on my server)! However, I may not know exactly where these things are: ``` #### Web server error log <details> <summary>Web server error log</summary> ``` Insert your webserver log here ``` </details> #### Nextcloud log (data/n

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extcloud.log) <details> <summary>Nextcloud log</summary> ``` Insert your Nextcloud log here ``` </details> #### Browser log <details> <summary>Browser log</summary> ``` Insert your browser log here, this could for example include: a) The javascript console log b) The network log c) ... ``` They also want config.php, contents of `sudo -u www-data php occ app:list`, ask you to do this: Login as admin user into your Nextcloud and access http://example.com/index.php/settings/integrity/failed Also all versions: ### Server configuration \*Operating system:\* \*Web server:\* \*Database:\* \*PHP version:\* \*Nextcloud version:\* (see Nextcloud admin page) \*Updated from an older Nextcloud/ownCloud or fresh install:\* Moreover, I'm quite afraid to put my domain names or even more sensitive info onto a public website if I just copy and paste. All I'm saying is that a big button that generates everything a dev needs with sensitive stuff redacted (which should be doable here and yes maybe I should make a PR for that) will make the experience a lot nicer for the reporter and the dev. As said, the Geyser MC project [1] can do exactly this and to me it is a game changer, the whole process was fast and pleasant and it was easy to test the automated builds they made in the branch based on my issue and report back in context on GitHub. Pasting the JSON their report feature generates into their Discord channel together with your question and their ability to just !docs/something point you to relevant docs with a small command feels like magic. I found the whole process inspirational. I love all FOSS devs. You are my heroes. [0]: https://github.com/nextcloud/server/issues/new?assignees=&la... [1] https://github.com/GeyserMC/Geyser

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GRBurst·Sep 2, 2020

It depends in whether I want to send it to someone in the local network or through the internet. For local network: I use miniserve ( https://github.com/svenstaro/miniserve ) which is just a simple http server. There are similar tools for when I want to share it from the smartphone. Through the internet it really varies: Sometimes it is Firefox send ( https://send.firefox.com/ ) For photos, I use a self hosted photo solution piwigo ( https://github.com/Piwigo/Piwigo ) In earlier days it has been a self hosted nextcloud ( https://github.com/nextcloud/server ) instance. I still use it when the files are getting too large for Firefox send. I also tried the already mentioned wormhole but this works only with tec ppl.

In Ask HN: What is your favorite method of sending large files?

fbartels·Dec 13, 2018

My guess he is referring to https://github.com/nextcloud/server/pull/12693, which sits there as a pr for 16 days now (even though it was opened from one of the nextcloud core team afaik).

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