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nextcloud-snap
Discontinued ☁️📦 Nextcloud packaged as a snap [Moved to: https://github.com/nextcloud-snap/nextcloud-snap] (by nextcloud)
The project is great and I made simple setup in docker to play around with it. There is official docker image you can use https://hub.docker.com/_/nextcloud.
The problem I see with similar services is they all trying to pack everything. You can also install external components into your system.
What it means in practice is huge area for security vulnerabilities, challenge to host/upgrade it at home on weekends and very complex user interface (easy to mess up with privacy settings).
I really scared to host such systems because of all related issues. Maybe it isn't big deal at all.
Probably, most of home use cases can be resolved by simple XMPP server (video calls, group chat, image/links sharing) plus some shared folder across the network to store some files/photos.
To the people who have been using Nextcloud successfully for years: is your usage mainly PC-PC or PC-iOS synchronization? Is anyone here running PC-Android synchronization with files that change more often than once a day?
My experience with the Nextcloud Android app is that the automatic sync is quite limited (eg. https://github.com/nextcloud/android/issues/757, https://github.com/nextcloud/android/issues/19). Every change has to be manually synced by opening the app and navigating to the Sync option for each file. This is pretty much a dealbreaker for me, but it looks like a lot of people are using Nextcloud successfully. So I'm curious how your usage differs from mine - do you only use it for static unchanging files that don't need to be synchronized that often, or is the sync situation smoother on other devices?
Although I use docker for most projects, for Nextcloud I decided to go with the snap version, which was very easy to use.[1]
[1] https://github.com/nextcloud/nextcloud-snap