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Started hosting my own Nextcloud and its awesome!
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I do use nextcloud for my small consultancy team but I dislike it immensely, mostly due to personal preferences.
I think I pretty much just don't like having one platform that does everything. I want to self host my own cloud, I don't want to self host a thing that provides a cloud.
Additionally, and this really is just a personal preference, I dislike php projects almost as much as Java.
Primarily I use nextcloud's file sync. This aspect is IMO extremely well implemented. It seems to work very reliably.
We do use contacts and calendars. If there were good alternatives I would switch to them but sabreDav et al lacks a good UI. I'm aware you can disable this functionality in nextcloud.
Anything else that can potentially be integrated is better hosted separately IMO.
It's definitely a bit of a behemoth, and the dated php codebase doesn't really help either. I set up OpenCloud last week and aside from the struggle getting it working with a single compose and Authentik for OIDC, it's been exactly what I've been looking for. Simpler, faster, and only does the things I need it to do.
I'm also eyeing at oxicloud that uses rust, haven't tried yet, and it's still in development for extra features
I don't remember if it was next or owncloud, but one of them was making a rewrite in go. I'm I'm no rush to jump into it, but keep a eye on it.
Owncloud had a rewrite called oCIS (Owncloud Infinite Scale). Then it was bought by Kiteworks. Then many of the core devs switched to a new product/company called Opencloud. There's been quite some history over the past few years
I agree about separating the services. In the past I had problems upgrading owncloud/nextcloud with too many plugins. It was difficult to keep all data between the versions.
Now I'm using Baikal for calendar/contacts, Silverbullet for notes and Linkding for bookmarks.
Currently I use these services by VPN only, so file sharing isn't really useful. I could reach all my files there by SMB and I don't dare to provide my services openly. For that alone Nextcloud was great, but I don't trust my setup enough to share it with the world again.
I agree that the file sync is good. They (and owncloud afaik) are the only ones supporting virtual files on windows where you only download files when needed, saving storage space.
I suppose these fancy file features (bidirectional syncing, advanced conflict resolution etc) are targeted to the enterprise, not home users. So it's natural they'd include it with a bunch of bells and whistles that are half as good