Some new EU funding in the background?
I'm quite happy with local apps, but I could see the appeal for self-hosting if the server would scale for the client (ie laptop on the desk vs mobile phone on the road)
How’s this project going to interact with ~~Collibre~~ Collabora (sorry!)?
I'm not getting any meaningful results searching for that project. What is it?
I think they mean https://www.collaboraonline.com/. That's what's used if you install the office addon for Nextcloud, if I'm not mistaken.
Maybe it was supposed to be Collabora?
My mood too.
That was actually my graduation photo, both times. I now look like that with just the top missing 😆
fuck yeah. I'll happily deploy this to my stack.
I was just looking if something like that exists yesterday, but got disappointed. Nice timing.
Check out CryptPad.org, it's:
Only downsides so far is that the UX is a bit slow when first loading documents and there are no mobile apps.
EDIT: Forgot to add the important par, they recently added support for OnlyOffice in the browser, which to me, was a pretty big deal.
This one is pretty great!
I hope they're able to move toward a client first renderer instead of the image tile approach they used previously. That was kinda a network hog and cludgy to use.
Yes please.
I'd love libreoffice in a browser, but the way collabora achieves it is abysmal.
The screen caps on the original project page seem to imply a proper web ui:
https://www.libreoffice.org/download/libreoffice-online/
Hard to be sure but the menu bar doesn't look like the native menu.
I thought tools like OnlyOffice filled in that gap. Nice to see an alternative.
People seem to be doling out some hate for OnlyOffice because of its compatibility with MSOffice formats.
I may be reporting it wrong. I didn't get it at the time, either.
Back in 2020, those of us who had been using the OnlyOffice community document server were greeted with a notification stating that mobile editing was no longer supported and that we'd have to buy their commercial product.
Some folks quickly figured out a patch. Others, like myself, left with a bad taste in our mouths.
https://github.com/nextcloud/documentserver_community/issues/94
Plus, they are shady about their origins.
I think it has to do with a recent decision by OO to default save all files in MS format vs an open format ? I saw some post about it on Mastodon. I use LO
I thought that was odd too. Including the MS Office formats with everything else OnlyOffice can open is fine, perhaps even fantastic, but it's weird as hell to make it the default.
Fingers crossed this can be a viable replacement for Collabora Online with Nextcloud, which has been a nightmare.
has it been a nightmare? I'm genuinely asking because I have it set up (with nextcloud master container) and although I don't use it very often, the times I do it seems quite alright
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