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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)
For personal use, being able to replace microsoft/google offerings with little to no functionality loss is amazing
How’s this project going to interact with
CollibreCollabora (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 😆
My first gut reaction was “Neat, but no thank you” but the more I think about how many clients COULD be using a cloud hosted privacy respecting platform instead of 365, I quickly bit my lip.
They say in their post that they won’t host it.
(IMO) even better.
Give me the package to self-host it.Yeah, I agree with that. Give me a container.
Yes that’s understood and particularly great, leaving orgs/people to self host. I’m all for it.
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.
OMG YES!!!
This makes me really happy because it’ll make collaborating with friends on things a lot easier.
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
I recall spreadsheets being particularly painful on mobile when I’d try to select multiple rows and it would select way more at a time but would need to fouble-check that or find a screen recording if I made one at the time.
The main issues is there was a bug where if there is an open session for a document in Collabora (including dead sessions say from mobile) and that Collabora server is shut down in the wrong order, then all changes including if you click “Save” will be lost. A bug was opened for this and closed by making sure the servers shut down in the correct order, but I don’t know if that fixes cases where the servers a hard shutdown.
I was just looking if something like that exists yesterday, but got disappointed. Nice timing.
Check out CryptPad.org, it’s:
- Open Source; so it can’t be taken away from you should the org cease to exist.
- Self-hostable; although you can use or pay to use other people’s instances.
- Collaborative; with real-time editing like Google docs
- Federated; so you can collaborate with others whether you’re using a self-hosted instance or using any other server.
- End-to-end encrypted: The server admins can’t see any of your data.
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!
Wth, I never knew Cryptpad does sheets/forms, that’s so cool!
Love Cryptpad, but am I the only one for whom the loading indicator gives a bad flashback to early js framework web development where every website was 16 times the initial load time, 4 times the overall size and just more buggy. Website SPA or not have rarely a good reason to have a loading indicator for the initial load the browser already does that.
Great!
I’d love to see libre office on my personal nextcloud instance. That would be an easy and effective “feature” for nextcloud which could be adopted by many business. They’re already running Nextcloud, maybe, for the digital sovereign.
Anyway, thanks for your efforts!
That’ll be nice to see. I like Collabora but haven’t tried hosting it. Opening that up and LibreOffice up side by side with the tabbed interface, barely any different. Maybe LibreOffice exposes way more buttons in each tab so maybe more intimidating but it looks pretty good compared to what I remember when the tabbed interface was first made available. Looking forward to seeing this progress
I thought tools like OnlyOffice filled in that gap. Nice to see an alternative.
Wasn’t collabora trying to be this
I think Libre Office is fantastic and I’m glad to see the back of Microsoft. But I miss how useful mail-merge was and how limited it is in Libre. It’s my only small complaint among so many cheers for Libre.
Why? Why anyone needs online version?
Realtime collaborative documents. One thing that comes to mind is notes for my DND party.
Would be nice to keep em somewhere everyone can access and add to, no extra client software install required.
I’ve been looking at hedgedoc for this exact purpose, but then everyone in my party would have to learn markdown, and they’re not all tech savvy.
But markdown is so easy to learn. They can even ignore most of it, probably.
You telling me we wouldn’t also find a good use for collaborative spreadsheets?
“Just gonna add this loot to the party’s inventory real quick.”
I mean… When friends or people at my work place plan a party and want to organize who brings what, they share an MSOffice or Google Calc link around, which allows you to enter stuff and see in real time what the others enter.
That would be nice to do with LibreOffice instead.
isn’t this the whole point of this community? ._.
It’s a pretty basic requirement for small business, nonprofits or pretty much any group of people wanting to easily collaborate on documents
Awesome! 😁
Why everything is going to be browser based?
Because you can use it on any device without having to install the whole app and sync the data separately… It’s super convenient, and cross-platform.
It’s still self hosted and you own the data.
That’s one thing I really love about the whole self hosting deal. I find more and more apps that I can run on my server und just utilize it on all my hardware. Only have your phone on you? No problem. Working on your companies computer? Just open the browser.
No reason to install and maintain stuff on 4 different devices
yep… I write all my papers in Google because I can access the files anywhere, and nothing beats PaperPile for referencing yet.
