jancborchardt

Could you share some more details on these two things specifically? - Where did you have issues with the installation? On the website, download, permissions, install page, etc.? - Which parts of the UI you see as outdated? Is it the web interface, specific apps, the desktop client, the mobile apps, all of it? Any specific things which seem off to you and we should focus on?

We continuously work on improving the design of course. As it is we are not so many designers, as unfortunately the problem is in open source. Also we’ve been working on many things in parallel like accessibility, standardization, the new Vue components, and of course our breadth of apps, etc.

So thanks for bringing this up! We’ll do better.

Comment · 7 years ago

For small apps like these, sign up is really a pain. That is why a friend and I have been working on a simplified version, which is mostly based on links so you can also easy share a tab: https://grouptabs.net

We also try to keep the interface very simple, and it works offline.

Comment · 7 years ago

Nextcloud designer here, thanks for the kind words! What’s something UX-wise that you’d like to see us focus on, or where you have suggestions?

If you’re a designer, we’re also always looking for contributors :) https://nextcloud.com/design/

Comment · 7 years ago

Nextcloud designer here, also working on Nextcloud Text. :)

Big thanks to ProseMirror https://prosemirror.net and tiptap https://tiptap.scrumpy.io which we use as a base for the app!

And of course as always with Nextcloud, the Text app is open source and everyone is welcome to give feedback and contribute: https://github.com/nextcloud/text

Comment · 7 years ago

Disclaimer: I’m part of the Nextcloud team (and formerly ownCloud before we forked).

With Nextcloud we don’t offer hosting for a reason – we would compete with Google, Dropbox, Amazon etc. in a race to the bottom, and it wouldn’t be private either. nathan-io said it very well already in their reply.

Another thing which then makes it super simple for people to self-host is a) PHP (yes, we got ridiculed soo much for that through the years …) and b) a dead-simple installation which in the simplest case (with SQLite) only asks for username and password you want for the admin. Most importantly, we use open standards and formats like WebDAV, CalDAV, CardDAV, IMAP, gpx, ActivityPub, etc. which makes Nextcloud universally compatible.

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However, for people who do want to simply sign up we do have an easy way: https://nextcloud.com/signup/ – this is also very presently available as "Sign up with a provider" in the mobile and desktop apps.

How it works:

- We have a list of participating providers (of which there are many more at https://nextcloud.com/providers/ ) with some strict guidelines like minimum storage space, minimum set of specific apps, uptime, reliability, etc.

- On the signup site or step we show exactly 1 provider (instead of a list like Mastodon etc.) to not overwhelm people with choice. This is based on your location and it just shows the nearest one, assuming it’s probably best regarding law and performance. There’s an option to "change provider" right below the provider.

- The only thing we ask for is your email address, and you only have to wait shortly while they provision your new instance. Sign up approaches the simplicity of Google or Dropbox this way.

I’m curious to see how it will fare for you, and wish you best of luck. If you ever want to join us or collaborate regarding integration, you are very welcome → https://nextcloud.com/contribute/

Comment · 9 years ago

There’s always Riot https://about.riot.im/ which is a nice and fully open source app so you could set that up on-premise too. :)

Comment · 9 years ago

As far as I can see, Tent unfortunately seems to be inactive. Last commit in 2013: https://github.com/tent/tentd, last blog post 2014: https://tent.io/blog

Comment · 9 years ago

Yeah, that would be me. :) At some point we supported it, but it turned out that for security reasons you would have to have a separate domain for your remoteStorage than your Nextcloud – which kind of defeats the purpose of easy integration.

At leas that is what I recall. Still think it would be great to integrate remoteStorage properly with Nextcloud! :)

Comment · 9 years ago

Nextcloud designer here, thanks for mentioning and good to hear you’re happy! :)

Everyone is welcome to contribute at https://github.com/nextcloud/ :) And in case anyone is in Berlin, we’re having our annual conference at the moment! https://nextcloud.com/conf/

Comment · 9 years ago

A good open source email server is https://mailinabox.email/ :)

Comment · 9 years ago

My partner is doing an incubator program called Social-Digital Innovation Initiative: https://sdinnovation.org

The basic idea is to bring together a person who knows of a specific social issue, and a tech person who wants to help solve it. Together they are the core team and are helped to work on their project, form a non-profit, get conmections etc.

At the moment the program is piloting in Berlin. It's planned to expand to Hungary, Austria and ideally other areas. If you are interested, drop by at one of the barcamp/unconference events or check out the website. :)

Comment · 9 years ago

Might be best to report it at https://github.com/fossjobs/fossjobs/issues :)

Comment · 9 years ago

If you’re up for contributing a simple timeout or something like that I guess the developers would appreciate that a lot :) https://github.com/fossjobs/fossjobs/