Am I the only one who missed the Owncloud rewrite in Go?

Submitted ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨Lem453@lemmy.ca⁩ to ⁨selfhosted@lemmy.world⁩

The topic of self-hosted cloud software comes up often but I haven’t seen anyone mention owncloud infinite scale (the rewrite in Go).

I started my cloud experience with owncloud years ago. Then there was a schism and almost all the active devs left for the nextcloud fork.

I used nextcloud until last year but like many others it always felt brittle (easy to break something) and half baked (features always seemed to be at 75% of what you want).

As a result I decided to go with Seafile and stick to the Unix philosophy. Get an app that does one thing very well rather than a mega app.

Seafile does this very well. Super fast, works with single sign on etc.

Then just the other day I discovered that owncloud has a full rewrite. No php, no Apache etc. Check the github, multiple active devs with lots of activity over the last year etc. The project seems stronger than ever.

Anyways, the point of this thread is:

If you never heard of it like me then check it out
If you have used it please post your experiences compared to NextCloud, Seafile etc.

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ikidd@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
What puts me off of Owncloud is the new ownership. I couldn’t care less if it’s written in the blood of Christ, if I have to worry about the rug getting pulled out from under me for self-hosting, it’s a no-go for me, Joe.

Nextcloud works well for me and has for years. The people that don’t like it can go use this, and we’ll see you back in a couple of years when it goes open-core or worse.

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- Lem453@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Ya it was bought by kiteworks which provides document management services for corps (which explains why that mention traceable file access in their features a lot).
  
  That being said, they bought them in 2014 it seems and it’s been a decade now
  
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  - ikidd@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    I have no issue with corporate funding. I have an issue when a company gets to make all the decisions. Lot of good software has gone to hell when the shareholders need profit now instead of seeing a long term vision.
    
    We’ll see, but I’ve been around this rodeo enough to just avoid it from the start and take some pain now instead of putting in effort that’s going to be wasted later.
    
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- massacre@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Nextcloud needs to port over some of the old OC Documentation. Their own docs make all kinds of references and it’s always something esoteric.
  
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agressivelyPassive@feddit.de ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I find it really weird that something as simple as the basic functionality of nextcloud seemingly can’t be implemented in a stable and lightweight manner.

Nextcloud always seems one update away from self destruction and it prepares for that by hoarding all the resources it can get. It never feels fast or responsive. I just want a way to share files between my machines.

There are other solutions, I know, but they’re all terrible in their own way.

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- Lem453@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Exactly, Seafile is the best I’ve found so far but a clean re write of the basic sync features would be great.
  
  Seafile for example has full text search locked behind a paywall even though tools like Elasticsearch could be integrated into it for free. Even the android app as filename search locked behind a paywall. You have to log into the website on your phone if you need to search.
  
  Pathetic state of affairs.
  
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  - Father_Redbeard@lemmy.ml ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    You can get a free Seafile Pro license if you create an account with them. Limited to 3 users, iirc. That’s what I’ve been running and really using it to keep stuff on phone, desktop, and laptop reachable from any of the devices. I love it.
    
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- exu@feditown.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  If you only need file syncing, there are better options than Nextcloud. But Nextcloud is the only real option if you want to create a full suite of replacements for office365 or google thanks to the large plugin ecosystem.
  
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  - MaggiWuerze@feddit.de ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    All I want is Nextcloud Files and Calendar in one place. If there’s something that can do that more performant and with a similarly nice gui i’d be all over it
    
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vzq@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I run seafile, but holy shit do I regret looking at the source code.

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- WeAreAllOne@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Why is that?
  
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  - vzq@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    There was something wonky with the mapping of OIDC attributes to user properties, so I decided to look at the seahub source and see if it would be easy to fix.
    
    Turns out, the whole thing is held together with hope and spit. Literal beginner code.
    
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bardmoss@linux.community ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Everyone moved to NextCloud by now

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- Lem453@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  I know, I did as well.
  
  The point of the post is that there is a very active full rewrite of the whole thing trying to ditch all the tech debt that NextCloud inherited from the OG owncloud (php, Apache etc)
  
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- possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  It isn’t perfect but it is better than everything else I tried. Also I’ve used it long enough to understand how to make it work
  
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possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I personally like Nextcloud even though it is a pain

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- Pika@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  I personally will never use next cloud, it is nice interface side but while I was researching the product I came across concerns with the security of the product. Those concerns have since then been fixed but the way they resolved the issue has made me lose all respect for them as a secure Cloud solution.
  
  Basically when they first introduced encrypting folders, there was a bug in the encryption program, and the only thing that ever would be encrypted was The Parent Directory but any subfolder in that directory would proceed to not be encrypted. The issue with that is that unless you had server-side access to view the files you had no way of knowing that your files weren’t actually being encrypted.
  
  All this is fine it’s a beta feature right? Except for when I read the GitHub issue on the report, they gaslit the reporter who reported the issue saying that despite the fact that it is advertised as feature on their stable branch, the feature was actually in beta status so therefore should not be used in a production environment, and then on top of , the feature was never removed from their features list, and proceeded to take another 3 months before anyone even started working on the issue report.
  
  This might not seem like a big deal to a lot of people, but as someone who is paranoid over security features, the projects in action over something as critical as that while trying to advertise themselves as being a business grade solution made me flee hardcore
  
  That being said I fully agree with you out of the different Cloud platforms that I’ve had, next Cloud does seem to be the most refined and even has the ability to emulate an office suite which is really nice, I just can’t trust them, I just ended up using syncthing and took the hit on the feature set
  
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  - vzq@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Ugh. I know that feeling. That’s why I’ve blacklisted salt stack.
    
    news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5993959
    
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  - possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    If you own the hardware it isn’t a issue
    
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GravitySpoiled@lemmy.ml ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I had a horrible experience with nextcloud on a pi. I have a great experience on a good server. It stores files. It does that very well for me. Clients work reliable.

Nextcloud apps are sometines good and sometimes not. It can do everything. One should let navidrome serve music and not nextcloud. Mealie is for recipes. Jellyfin for videos and immich for images. Paperless for documents.

Nextcloud is file storage, backup, syncing and maybe collab. That’s what I expect and that’s what I get.

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- Father_Redbeard@lemmy.ml ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  What’s crazy is that I tried NC on my server, which is a HP Microserver G8 hosting 13 total services. And it ran like crap. Tried the standard and AIO versions. On a whim tried NextcloudPi on a Pi4 and it has been awesome! Web interface is still pretty sluggish but I use apps that sync to NC most of the time like:
  
  Quillpad for Google Keep type notes and checklists
  
  Floccus for bookmarks sync
  
  Deck for Kanban
  
  Gnome online accounts for desktop and laptop connection with documents
  
  So far it’s been flawless. I doubt it would run well with more than a few users though.
  
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- Lem453@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  I had NextCloud on a Ryzen 3600 with NVME zfs array. While faster that my previous Intel atom with HDD + SSD cache, Seafile blows it away in terms of speed and resiliency. It feels much more reliable with updates etc.
  
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SpeakinTelnet@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I use owncloud infinite scale and overall its rock solid. The downside is the lack of plugins. Nextcloud has been nothing but trouble for me and every update was a mess so I decided to try OCIS and for my need I was extremely satisfied.

Now, I admit, I’m not one to get carried by the drama in the FOSS sphere (still use Gitea) but I do agree there is an history to the separation of owncloud and nextcloud that can make some people uncomfortable. Having a choice is good I believe.

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- vzq@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  
  Now, I admit, I’m not one to get carried by the drama in the FOSS sphere (still use Gitea)
  
  This is a bit of a “bell curve meme” situation. I’m extremely about the drama, and I’m back to gitea. The forgejo guys are good at branding, but I’m not seeing great project stewardship. I’ll take my chances with the commercial guys for now.
  
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  - SpeakinTelnet@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    One of the first interaction I witnessed from the forgejo guys was this PR:
    
    github.com/go-gitea/gitea/pull/27455/
    
    The interaction and stubbornness of earl-warren felt like it was just that, provoked drama.
    
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- Lem453@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Thank your for providing first hand perspective. I’ll probably try to spin up a docker deployment for testing.
  
  I don’t really plan to use many of the plugins since I think that was the down fall of NextCloud. Trying to do everything instead of doing it’s core job well.
  
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skittlebrau@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I would have used Owncloud Infinite Scale but the fact you can’t use your own existing files makes it a complete non-starter for me. I don’t want my files locked behind Decomposed FS.

Unless I’ve read things wrong, which is entirely possible.

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- rearview@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  FYI there is an upcoming storage driver that can solve this issue
  
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  - skittlebrau@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    That’s good to hear. Looks like something worth revisiting once it’s been tested well.
    
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hendrik@palaver.p3x.de ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Is it free software? In the tarball I downloaded is a COPYING file, saying it's AGPL. But I also found an EULA saying it's not free software...

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- imsodin@infosec.pub ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  That’s indeed confusing. The wording linked below suggests the eula is for packages distributed by owncloud. so to my understanding the source itself and any third party packages don’t need to care about it.
  
  github.com/owncloud/ocis?tab=readme-ov-file#end-u…
  
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  - hendrik@palaver.p3x.de ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Apache isn't a copyleft license. I guess they (and everyone) can just copy or compile it, make it a derivative work and say it's now non-free and terms and conditions apply.
    
    I mean the GitHub repo has a license file which says it's Apache 2.0. And 3h) of the EULA says it doesn't apply to open source components. So it kinda doesn't apply to itself. I think you're right, it's Free Software after all and them saying "Some builds [...]" means it's the binaries distributed by them. IANAL and it kinda contradicts the Apache license which explicitly states I am allowed to redistribute copies both modified and not modified and both in object and source form. I'm not sure why they do it and if there are components missing in the GitHub repo.
    
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- Lem453@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  I only read the beginning but it says you can use it for private deployments but can’t use it commercially. Seems reasonable. Any specific issues?
  
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  - hendrik@palaver.p3x.de ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Hmm. I guess that works, too. I'm just a nerd and really like Free Software. Almost exclusively use it. My phone runs a custom ROM with just a few unfree apps and without Google services, all my computers run Linux. Even the internet router does, and my IoT smart sockets run Tasmota or ESPHome. I like the 4 freedoms and the culture behind it. I participate and regularly contribute. All of that is mostly personal preference. I guess I could as well live comfortably with using Google Drive, but I choose not to. Source-available software would allow me to look at the code, something proprietary software doesn't allow. But that's pretty much it. I often can't remix and share it as I like. I don't have the freedom to decide to use it as it pleases me. And depending on the exact license, I can't even invite my friends and family to use the services I set up...
    
    It's just the line I draw. Either it provides me with the Four Essential Freedoms of Free Software as lined out by RMS in the eighties, or I don't volunteer to use it. I have no issues though with other people making sifferent choices.
    
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helenslunch@feddit.nl ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

Get an app that does one thing very well rather than a mega app that tries to do everything.

I agree. I am not a fan of Nextcloud. Moved to OwnCloud a while back. No ragrets.

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Decronym@lemmy.decronym.xyz ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I’ve seen in this thread:

Fewer Letters More Letters

IoT Internet of Things for device controllers

NAS Network-Attached Storage

SSD Solid State Drive mass storage

[Thread #841 for this sub, first seen 1st Jul 2024, 16:05] [FAQ] [Full list] [Contact] [Source code]

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TCB13@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Maybe the NextCloud guys will follow… oh wait that would just be yet another perpetually half-finished NC thing.

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aaaaace@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Fuck their fucking cookies.

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JubilantJaguar@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
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- bashfulrobot@hachyderm.io ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  @JubilantJaguar I do similar but with syncthing. It’s treated me very well so far.
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- TMP_NKcYUEoM7kXg4qYe@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  github.com/haiwen/seafile#license
  
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uninvitedguest@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I wanted to spin up OCIS but for some reason ran in to difficulties with the Docker container. I forget what the issues were, but I already had a solid Nextcloud instance running so I didn’t dig very hard. Would like to revisit it some day.

However, since then Owncloud has been bought out, causing some worry.

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- Lem453@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Did not know this. Thanks!
  
  Looks like Kiteworks invested in OwnCloud in 2014 and they still seems to be going strong with the OSS development which is a good sign.
  
  This probably explains why there are so many active devs on the project and how they got a full rewrite into version 4 relatively quickly.
  
  Already seems to have more features than Seafile.
  
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  - ikidd@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    2023, I remember the announcement last year. Not sure where you’re getting 2014 from, that was even before NC split off.
    
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onlinepersona@programming.dev ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
What’s up with Owncloud? Why did devs leave for Nextcloud? And what happened to prevent that from happening again?

I too dislike that Nextcloud is in PHP, but if Owncloud went closed-source, then opened it up again (not saying that’s the story here), who’s to say it won’t happen again? Putting my eggs in that basket might seem quite dangerous as I don’t want my server to suddenly stop working and sit behind a paywall or something because management decided they want to make a quick euro.

Anti Commercial-AI license

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- Lem453@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  I don’t remember all the details. They never went closed source, there was a difference in opinion between primary devs on the direction the project should take.
  
  Its possible that was related to corporate funding but I don’t know that.
  
  Regardless it was a fork where some devs stayed with owncloud and most went with NextCloud. I moved to NextCloud at this time as well.
  
  OwnCloud now seems to have the resources to completely rewrite it from the ground up which seems like a great thing.
  
  If the devs do something sketchy again the code can just be forked again AFAIK just like any other open source project.
  
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toxicyeti@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I’ve been running OC10 for a while now and have hit a few bumps here and there. I didn’t realize OCIS is available as a self hosted thing. Since first reading this thread a while ago I’ve been working on getting it running. Using docker I manage to get it to open to a blank blue page where I’m supposed to be able to log in but the form doesn’t show up no matter what browser I use. I may look into it again in the future…

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JimmyCryptoMan213@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Are all files on OwnCloud E2EE weather one has a personal cloud storage account or has an account on a team were files are E2EE for all users that are apart of the same team? E2EE were the server admins cannot see anyones filea, folders, file names, folder names and other metadata?

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Fewer Letters	More Letters
IoT	Internet of Things for device controllers
NAS	Network-Attached Storage
SSD	Solid State Drive mass storage