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My knowledge is a year or two out of date, but I think “it’s all just webdav” is part of the problem, and they sort of painted themselves into a corner by using

by mnutt 8y ago

My knowledge is a year or two out of date, but I think “it’s all just webdav” is part of the problem, and they sort of painted themselves into a corner by using it as a protocol. They ended up with a bunch of extra API hacks on top of WebDAV for things like multiparty uploads, and things still go wonky if you try to connect a random WebDAV client to it. I built an ownCloud file storage replacement that worked with their front end client, while it was all technically WebDAV, syncing issues were a nightmare. I have a great amount of respect for how much effort they put into getting WebDAV to work, I just think it’s not not as solid/specified a protocol as one would hope.

bayesian_horse 8y ago
The synchronization is a nightmare. The C++ client is hard to figure out, and even harder to maintain as a customized solution. Worse, they don't get the usual benefit of C++ clients being lean and resource-friendly because they now ship with an embedded QT Webbrowser.
- guruz 8y ago
  You should try the ownCloud client instead. It works just fine with Nextcloud as server and has less bloat than the Nextcloud-branded client. https://github.com/owncloud/client/releases/tag/v2.5.1 https://github.com/owncloud/client/releases/tag/v2.5.1 Disclaimer: I'm one of the developers of the the ownCloud desktop client.
  - jospoortvliet 8y ago
    Of course, you lose support for 2FA, have crappy notifications and activity feed and so on, plus it is entirely unsupported so I'd recommend against that...
- bayesian_horse 8y ago
  While there is certainly a point about electron apps wasting resources, an electron app would be a lot more maintainable and the GUI could be improved a lot. For example it's impossible to know which errors are actually a problem, and if synchronization was successful or aborted. Some of the progress information is in a tooltip which changes a couple of times per second.

by mnutt 8y ago

bayesian_horse 8y ago

The synchronization is a nightmare. The C++ client is hard to figure out, and even harder to maintain as a customized solution. Worse, they don't get the usual benefit of C++ clients being lean and resource-friendly because they now ship with an embedded QT Webbrowser.

guruz 8y ago
You should try the ownCloud client instead. It works just fine with Nextcloud as server and has less bloat than the Nextcloud-branded client. https://github.com/owncloud/client/releases/tag/v2.5.1 https://github.com/owncloud/client/releases/tag/v2.5.1 Disclaimer: I'm one of the developers of the the ownCloud desktop client.
- jospoortvliet 8y ago
  Of course, you lose support for 2FA, have crappy notifications and activity feed and so on, plus it is entirely unsupported so I'd recommend against that...
bayesian_horse 8y ago
While there is certainly a point about electron apps wasting resources, an electron app would be a lot more maintainable and the GUI could be improved a lot. For example it's impossible to know which errors are actually a problem, and if synchronization was successful or aborted. Some of the progress information is in a tooltip which changes a couple of times per second.