this post was submitted on 16 Mar 2025
1415 points (99.0% liked)

Technology

66783 readers
4859 users here now

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.


Our Rules


  1. Follow the lemmy.world rules.
  2. Only tech related content.
  3. Be excellent to each other!
  4. Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
  5. Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
  6. Politics threads may be removed.
  7. No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
  8. Only approved bots from the list below, this includes using AI responses and summaries. To ask if your bot can be added please contact a mod.
  9. Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed
  10. Accounts 7 days and younger will have their posts automatically removed.

Approved Bots


founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
(page 2) 50 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)

What does this do over what the collabora tools in Nextcloud do?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

NGL I keep forgetting NextCloud has collaboration tools.

[–] [email protected] 127 points 2 days ago (16 children)

Just checked the part about self-hosting. While it's probably possible to handle things with a less heavy approach, their only "easy to use" example right now is to have a full-blown kubernetes cluster at hand or run locally in the source directory. That's a bit much.

[–] [email protected] 47 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

In the README there's also instructions for Docker Compose, although it's quite the compose file, with SIXTEEN containers defined. Not something I'd want to self-host.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

it seems to contains development containers and external services containers. So the compose file is more for local dev it seems

What i do find weird is the choice for Django for the backend. Python is incredibly slow, and django rest framework is even worse.

load more comments (15 replies)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

Dont know why we need another foss office but im certainly not going to complain.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago (11 children)

Is this just for EU citisens or can Americans like me use it?

load more comments (11 replies)
[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 day ago (12 children)

Pretty good project, but is it the future to have mainly web apps?

[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It’s definitely been the direction of travel for the last several years. Not because the products are better, but because it’s easier to develop for just the browser than for Mac, Windows, and Linux.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago (2 children)

it’s easier to develop for just the browser than for Mac, Windows, and Linux.

They also work on android and IOS. You are also not dependent on the different toolkits. Also it is so much more performant.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

They also work on android and IOS.

I can imagine it'll be a 160 MB app that loads the website in a webview, like it usually is

load more comments (1 replies)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago (3 children)

For offline editing there's already LibreOffice

load more comments (3 replies)
load more comments (10 replies)
[–] [email protected] 66 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Surprised they didn't go with cryptpad - aren't they already French?

[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 day ago (3 children)
load more comments (3 replies)
[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

So FramaSoft is not a thing ?? It's French

[–] [email protected] 50 points 2 days ago (4 children)

What was wrong with libre?

[–] [email protected] 79 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Pretty sure Libre only does local document collaboration, having it online is helpful for teams far from each other or who simply don't have the infrastructure for their own central server of this kind.

[–] [email protected] 50 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Well this has been running in our Nextcloud and works pretty well collaboratively :) https://github.com/CollaboraOnline/online not sure how it scales, but definitely an alternative that can be built on

load more comments (2 replies)
load more comments (3 replies)
load more comments
view more: ‹ prev next ›