Yeah it kind of sucks but it exists. I’ve used it for a very small server, like 3 users. I won’t say “avoid” but unless it’s gotten a lot better since I tried it, you probably should look elsewhere for a long term solution.
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unmagical@lemmy.ml 3 days agoI did not realize that nextcloud had a talk product. That actually looks really promising. I’ll have to see if I can setup a passwordless login through authentik or something to allow accessing the general channel.
Thanks for the rec.
solrize@lemmy.ml 3 days ago
meh@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 days ago
nextcloud tries to do everything so it settles for good enough instead of doing some things really well. the text part of chat works well, its webrtc struggled for me even with the high performance backend. i set up a jitsi server with only jwt auth going through the nextcloud integration on mine to get around that limitation.
there is a guest join by link feature in talk. though nextcloud can also be set up to use outside oidc. so you could allow people to log in with their existing accounts. making it easier for people who would struggle registering.
nextcloud will lower the barrier for entry on your users with the ‘single interface’ feel. its just gonna shift that effort onto you to scale past like 10 users.
Willdrick@lemmy.world 1 day ago
No need, you can create a password protected link that you can share so anybody can get in as a named guest. I host my own NC instance using the AIO docker since 2020 and since last year we’ve been using spreed (aka NC Talk). I manually added friends and family (each group with their own ACL rules) but also keep a live invite link for casual friends that might hop on a call every now and then. Password is just a safety measure so I don’t have randos joining the call/chat