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I've gotten a bit tired of Nextcloud as of late an I'm curious it is a viable alternative. I like having Nextcloud Talk but I can live without it.

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[–] JakeSparkleChicken@midwest.social 30 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

In the beginning, there was ownCloud. They were a good FLOSS offering that decided to start catering solely to corporate customers in the hopes of juicy support contracts. The community who had been contributing the majority of the code gave them a mighty "Fork you" and created NextCloud.

That was about ten years ago. I haven't looked into ownCloud for the last seven or so, but it had stagnated pretty badly by that point. Maybe they've gotten some fresh blood since then, but you'll likely find it to be quite lacking in features and plugins comparatively.

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 5 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

I like that they are using Go instead of Php

[–] ilmagico@lemmy.world 4 points 14 hours ago

I had heard they had rewritten it in go and got a lot more performant, not sure what else they have done. I don't care much about the politics as long as it's still open source (is it?).

That said, I'm a happy nextcloud user and I don't see a reason to switch (after moving both data and db onto SSDs it's much faster, so maybe php wasn't the bottleneck).

[–] JakeSparkleChicken@midwest.social 1 points 58 minutes ago

That's interesting that they refactored it. Maybe there have been some improvements made over the last seven years.