After my private Gmail was leaked somewhere, I’ve started to receive an enormous amount of spam that came through into my inbox, which made me switch to Proton and a self-hosted SimpleLogin setup.

So I decided, I might as well dirch Google entirely, for private and work-related stuff.

While Proton already covers Mail and Calendar, I’m in search of alternatives for the following services to replace.

  • Meet: I like the idea of starting a quick meeting by simply sending a link to a customer, who can join instantly. What would be an equivalent software to do that? I tried Mattermost, but it seems more like a Slack alternative, with invites, etc. and is overkill for my case. Revolt chat looks like a Discord alternative.
  • Drive: In short, If possible, I’d prefer one consolidated place to access and edit files. Docs, Excel, PDFs, pictures, videos, etc… Is Nextcloud really the only option here, with the corresponding plugins for onlyoffice and memories (photos)? I tried running thst on an intel nuc, and it’s slow as hell.
  • adONisOPEnglish
    2•1 year ago

    ok… valid point, and I also agree on the refactoring argument.

    To mitigate the compatibility issue, they could release a new major version, and let plugin developers simultaneously (or not) rewrite their codebase to make it compatible. That’s how WordPress plugins work, although WP is a whole other mess, and not the best of examples, but they also have a large userbase and plugins.

    lol, I too was thinking about trying to kickstart a similar project in Go. I’m by no means a professional go-dev (former PHP-dev, currently Node), but I think it shouldn’t be that hard.

    • @fluckxEnglish
      1•1 year ago

      Yup yup! I agree wholeheartedly! WordPress is indeed a whole other mess. Never been a big fan of the php CMS systems ( WordPress joomla Drupal).

      I’ve seen the mess that can become firsthand ( though i wasn’t working on the project ).

      Go has peaked my interest as well ( for terraform modules and/or kubrrnetes operators ). I wonder if the owncloud project is working out better ( performance wise ). That aims at a different market segment than NC though. It was written in go though I think.

      It isn’t opensource anymore I think? ( didn’t google - very possible that I’m wrong ).

      Best of luck to your go project ( I’d you decide to kickstart it ). I’d contribute if I could, though you’d probably be better off code-quality wise with somebody with more experience :D.