App Request: OpenCloud

Apps and Virtualization
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This seems to be the closest open source app to Google Drive. Looks super promising. Would love to see this in the app catalog!

The other file share / management apps are, IMO, a bit “jenky”, and a lot of us don’t want the overhead of NextCloud.

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Nextcloud is also open source, has, as far as i know, the same feature set as opencloud (maybe even more), and is available as an app

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It’s grossly the same basic feature set (and as Nextcloud is a much more mature project, I’d expect its feature set to be greater), but a very different philosophy–to name two major differences, it’s written in Go IIRC[1], and it uses flat files rather than a database for all its metadata and configuration. Unfortunately, unless it’s seen a drastic change in the last few weeks, its deployment is a complete mess.[2]

  1. and as a result is considerably more performant than the PHP-based Nextcloud ↩︎

  2. By which I mean that the Compose stack needs to include everything in this directory:

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It’s much more performant and Nextcloud, IMO, is a bit bloated and not beginner-friendly for setup / deployment.

Anyway, we could point out flaws all day, but I think users should have more choices on which file management and sharing system they use, as there are already less user friendly options than OpenCloud available in the app catalog.

Just a request for another supported app here!

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Have you tried it out yet? I gave up trying to get it to run properly after about a week of messing with it. It’s got potential but it needs a LOT more work.