OwnCloud releases tech preview on new, innovative platform – ownCloud

https://owncloud.com/news/owncloud-releases-tech-preview-on-new-innovative-platform/

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xxel2• 6 years ago

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.

COGlory• 6 years ago

borring source code

Based on the article, this looks to be a massive overhaul of the source, switching to Golang.

xxel2• 6 years ago

Based on the articke NOW. My comment is based on the PAST experience.

Jnr2• 6 years ago

I hope you do know that NextCloud is a fork of ownCloud. NextCloud is probably just as boring. :)

I use Nextcloud and it is very dated and with poor performance in multiple areas.

I was expecting someone would come and make a more modern open source private cloud server in Go or Rust, but I did not expect ownCloud to do the rewrite. Nice!

djeiasbsbo2• 5 years ago

The newest version of NextCloud is perfectly fine, not sure if you have tried that.

It is fast, extensible and due to its status, many clients and apps can sync to NextCloud. At this point it is known enough, that it can replace sonething like iCloud for anyone looking to switch.

viraptor• 6 years ago

borring source code

That sounds like a positive thing to be honest.

nix233• 5 years ago

That's probably the best quality-feature one can give to source-code.

denysvitali• 6 years ago

Wow. This really looks interesting!

Ditching PHP for Golang and a full rewrite? Kudos!

acct776• 6 years ago

Is this going to make migrating from NextCloud worthwhile for security or speed reasons?

m-p-3• 6 years ago

I'd probably consider it if it was faster and lighter on resources.

a012• 6 years ago

Definitely interesting. Even more impressive on their release notes of Tech Preview: https://github.com/owncloud/ocis/releases/tag/v1.0.0

belval• 5 years ago

It's also a smart move because I'd be a willing to bet Go is more approchable to would be contributors.

nickik• 6 years ago

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).

_frkl• 5 years ago

It sounds like Seafile would be worthwhile for you to look into, they do syncing quite well (based on a simplified version of git - its quite fast as they don't have to up-/download the whole file if it changes), and sharing also works fine. Doesn't have a lot of other features, but what it does it does relatively well. There are a few issues as with everything, esp. setup and updating is a bit annoying, but overall I'd recommend it. Can also do end to end encryption (with a few caveats, but IMHO good enough).

LukasReschke• 5 years ago

Earlier discussion from yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25869798

ecf• 5 years ago

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.

nix233• 5 years ago

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/

hedora• 5 years ago

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.

yumraj• 5 years ago

I’m guessing one potential advantage could be that it makes open source development with numerous contributors easier to manage.

Different contributors focus on smaller codebases without worrying about building the whole monolithic product.

folmar• 5 years ago

A lot of applications are shipped as a bunch of services with included supervisor, and normally the administrator is not expected to fiddle with individual services. See for instance Gitlab.

rakoo• 5 years ago

The product is clearly targeted at enterprises: https://owncloud.com/product/

mmmeff• 5 years ago

The logo is really bad

OwnCloud releases tech preview on new, innovative platform – ownCloud

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