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NextCloud being so slow forced me to migrate to Seafile.

Seafile being less one-stop-shoppy made me not use it so much, but whenever I do it is always fast and responsive (unlike nextcloud, where 80% of the time I was looking at the loading indicator). Looking it up now though, it looks like it has a lot of new features I haven’t yet tried so I’m probably gonna start using it more now.

Only downside with Seafile is it’s deduplication (for me), because it stops me from easily accessing files directly (always gotta use a client). Likely a benefit for most though and I do rarely need to access a file directly on disk, just when I do, it’d be an easy shortcut for whatever I’m doing.

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sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
Check out the POSIX driver in OCIS/OpenCloud. It should keep the responsiveness of Seafile, while having a sane disk format.

Or you can try out the Seafile FUSE layer.

I’m in a similar boat, and I’ve been testing out Seafile and ownCloud OCIS, and I think I prefer OCIS. I’ll probably switch to OpenCloud though, since it seems a lot of the OCIS devs went there due to issues w/ management.

Some things I didn’t like about Seafile:

complicated to set up - I wanted to throw it in a container, and that made it a lot more complex

weird codebase - a lot of it’s in C, and some is in Go - not sure if they’re switching to Go eventually, or if it’s a one-off thing

they only support MariaDB/MySQL, and I really want to avoid that - OCIS lets me just use the filesystem, which is really nice

But hey, if it works, it works, so don’t mess w/ it.
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- dogs0n@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  Thanks for your reply, I will definitely keep that in mind if Seafile fails to meet any critera moving on, but yeah your last point is also right, it would probably be a big pain to migrate out at this point with all my data for multiple users here.
  
  It seems a lot has been modernising recently, I didn’t know they were also using Go, but hopefully they continue with it for new code.
  
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