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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?

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Why would you compare to something so utterly different?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago

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