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·
    10 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·
      10 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·
        10 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·
          10 months ago

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

        • acockworkorange@mander.xyzEnglish
          11·
          10 months ago

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