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OwnCloud releases tech preview on new, innovative platform – ownCloud

by 076ae80a-3c97-4 on 1/22/21, 8:59 PM with 25 comments

  • by ecf on 1/23/21, 7:01 AM

    Seems like a nice update to a piece of software that needs a way to standout against their, arguably, more popular fork. However...

    > ownCloud Infinite Scale

    This type of branding makes me nauseous.

  • by hedora on 1/23/21, 4:26 PM

    Rewriting in go sounds great, but why microservices? Isn’t the target audience the “throw this onto a Raspberry PI / NAS and forget it” crowd?

    I can’t imagine people wanting to administer dozens of independent daemons for such a setup.

  • by denysvitali on 1/22/21, 11:51 PM

    Wow. This really looks interesting!

    Ditching PHP for Golang and a full rewrite? Kudos!

  • by LukasReschke on 1/23/21, 5:10 AM

    Earlier discussion from yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25869798
  • by nickik on 1/23/21, 4:07 AM

    I was not very happy with the ownCloud product and this rewirte was very much needed. I seem like they were just adding feature but tons of it just didn't work well at all.

    I'm fine with less features, add them when they are ready.

    I would maybe try it again after a rewrite.

    Anybody have good alternatives? For me most important was exposing my files to other users and giving them access selectively. Also syncing files to the app would have been a great feature for me (this caused the most issues for me).

  • by nix23 on 1/23/21, 11:52 AM

    Using Nextcloud myself, that would be a good point to migrate. Nextcloud is not bad but sometimes i think the releases are not tested enough, with every release there is a problem, often not big ones but it's a bit to hmmm needy?

    And there is also Seafile which is often forgotten:

    https://www.seafile.com/en/home/

  • by mmmeff on 1/23/21, 5:01 PM

    The logo is really bad
  • by xxel on 1/22/21, 10:09 PM

    NextCloud is more than enough for me with full secure setup. I do remmember pulled the repo of ownCloud on some dietpi and I did not liked it. UI a bit oldscool and borring source code.