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nextcloud / server

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☁️ Nextcloud server, a safe home for all your data

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☁️ Nextcloud server, a safe home for all your data

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What people are saying

> 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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This week on Hacker News

Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 6:01:08 PM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by year24 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2016-06-02 16:17:37 UTC to 2025-05-07 15:28:46 UTC.

02462016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments20162017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 7 mentions; 1 submissions, 6 comments2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments20202021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 4 mentions; 0 submissions, 4 comments2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 4 mentions; 0 submissions, 4 comments2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2025

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
20162016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202
20172017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20182018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC716
20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC404
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC404
20242024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20252025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202

What Hacker News says

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fro0116·Nov 20, 2018
For one, delta-sync was built into the Dropbox client from the very beginning, and I'm getting the impression from this thread that Nextcloud still doesn't have it till this day: https://github.com/nextcloud/server/issues/417 This is a major contributor to sync UX, and by no means trivial to implement. Another example is their file stubs implementation (Project Infinite) that works across platforms, which is also no small engineering feat, that afaik no other sync software has been able to replicate yet (OneDrive has this on Windows, but no other platforms). The Dropbox client makes just about every other sync client look like toy projects in terms of technical sophistication, reliability, and general UX. There's a reason why they're so successful. And I say this as someone who doesn't even use Dropbox on a day to day basis (I use Syncthi
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ng as my daily driver). This really seems like a matter of the OP not knowing what they're missing and then flaunting that ignorance.
In Want to Recruit Better Engineers? Open Source Your Code
Jaepa·Sep 1, 2018
I generally control the organization of stuff by the way it comes in, and then have a secondary means to have media organized that comes in from a non-standard ingress. Most information is stored in of 3 ways 1. Synced to a NextCloud instance running on a VPS. 2. Synced to a home NAS running Syncthing (though I may change this to IPFS at somepoint). 3. Added to Wallabag (A read it later like service) Notes, List & Project based Todos These are put into Orgmode which syncs with Owncloud. I can then use the WebDav endpoint to pull the files to add or edit on my phone. Articles/Papers These get added to wallabag then are accessed via an RSS reader. Personal Documentation Added with Camscanner, OCRed, and added to NextCloud. At some point I will probably also store these on my NAS, so I can extracted the OCRed text as a text file so I
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can search them, but currently the collection is to small to justify this. Media My NAS handles most of this, and organizes it using Emby. Syncthing is my secondary means for this, and Emby watches the directory to organize this. eBooks Syncthing to add to the server. A headless calibre instance then organizes it. Pictures Most pictures come my from my phone, nextcloud will automatically sync these. If the pictures are part of notes, then instead they go into Orgmode, which works with images as well. There are a couple of other organizational thing that use Syncthing + Organize, but nothing of major note. This is not A single cohesive system but several scoped systems with a standardize way to add content to organize (e.g. folders). Searching the content is generally done via plain text searches, or inside of the application that manages that context (see emby & calibri). Links 1. https://github.com/nextcloud/server 2. https://github.com/syncthing/syncthing 3. https://github.com/tfeldmann/organize 4. https://github.com/wallabag/wallabag 5. https://www.camscanner.com/ 6. https://beorgapp.com/ 7. https://manual.calibre-ebook.com/server.html 8. https://emby.media/
In Ask HN: How to organize personal knowledge?
pixelHD·May 14, 2018
I've started doing this as a hobby, to see how many services I regularly use can be replaced. They're all behind an nginx reverse proxy + letsencrypt cert on a hetzner box. IRC: https://github.com/thelounge/thelounge/ (Use a lot, and it works decently well) Cloud: https://github.com/nextcloud/server/ (Works surprisingly well, however, I've heard there are security issues) Analytics: https://github.com/matomo-org/matomo/ (I'm comparing how much I'd lose out compared to google analytics, if I ever move away from it) Chat: https://github.com/RocketChat/Rocket.Chat/ (never really use it, just wanted to see how it works) Git: https://github.com/gogits/gogs (Mostly for mirroring git repos) Browser IDE: https://icecoder.net/ (I'm able to edit the code for the bots/projects I host from the browser itself) Calibre library front end: https://github
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.com/janeczku/calibre-web Pastebin: https://github.com/LINKIWI/modern-paste (never use it) Linkshortener: https://github.com/LINKIWI/linkr (occasional use) Mail + mailbox + webmail: https://mailcow.email/ (Had to spend a bit more time, but now it is able to deliver mails to gmail/outlook/icloud without issues. I use it as a mailing solution for all the selfhosted projects which need smtp) Online Markdown editor: https://github.com/joemccann/dillinger (Used quite a few times) Minecraft server Music streaming: https://github.com/phanan/koel/ (I'm not a native english speaker, so quite a few songs I listen to aren't on spotify) Neo4j, mongodb, mysql and postgres: For all database needs. Server monitoring: https://github.com/firehol/netdata Photos: https://github.com/Chevereto/Chevereto-Free (I use it quite a lot to host images I'd have used imgur instead) R Studio server, and Jupyter notebooks: For work/hobby programming I've had a lot of help from https://selfhosted.libhunt.com/ and https://www.reddit.com/r/selfhosted/ I"ve had to move from one VPS provider to another while testing, so I have a handy guide for setting up quick here: https://github.com/itsmehemant123/basic-vps-setup . I have a separate guide for hosting each of the above projects behind an nginx with https, but its quite rough right now. So its private.
In Ask HN: What are you currently self hosting?
Yetanfou·Apr 27, 2018
Add the HN RSS feed to a feed reader, use it to skim the subjects (HN doesn't put anything but the subject line in the feed) and only open those subjects which are of interest. Never hit the main page. This does two things: 1: it allows you to only look at those subjects which are of interest, either through the comments or by opening the page link without seeing the comments 2: it somewhat protects you from the effects of the HN echo chamber/popularity contest in that it shows you everything which made it to HN, no matter whether it was directly pushed off the front page due to flagging/downvoting/overactive moderation. I'm using the Nextcloud [1] News app [2] as a feed reader, there are others but this one works well and handles large volumes without problems. [1] https://github.com/nextcloud/server [2] https://github.com/nextcloud/news
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