I hear people say that about Nextcloud often, which is part of why I haven’t bothered setting it up yet.

Is there a technical reason why it’s slow and clunky? Any problematic choices with how it was built?

  • Björn Tantau@swg-empire.deEnglish
    51·
    9 months ago

    I’d argue that the primary function of Nextcloud is to serve files. Of course the other services lack other stuff, which is why I’m still using Nextcloud. But I still wish its performance was similar to pure file servers.

    • cron@feddit.deEnglish
      8·
      9 months ago

      I think the file server analogy isn’t really fair. Nextcloud is better compared to Microsoft 365 or Google GSuite.

      All of these offer file storage, but also much more.

      • Björn Tantau@swg-empire.deEnglish
        31·
        9 months ago

        Sure. But serving files is the core functionality of Nextcloud. You can remove every other functionality. But the files app cannot be removed.

        • owenEnglish
          4·
          9 months ago

          I agree. They’re suffering from feature creep I fear

        • acockworkorange@mander.xyzEnglish
          11·
          9 months ago

          I disagree. The extras and modularity are the core functionality. If you’re just serving files, there’s SFTP, WebDAV, etc.