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?

  • cronEnglish
    80·
    7 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 TantauEnglish
      31·
      7 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
        40·
        7 months ago

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

      • acockworkorangeEnglish
        11·
        7 months ago

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