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I wish LibreOffice folks would drop whatever they are trying to do with their 'online suite' and just create a self-hosted web version of LibreOffice.

pmontra 4y ago
They kind of have it at https://www.libreoffice.org/download/libreoffice-online/ https://www.libreoffice.org/download/libreoffice-online/ "Kind of" because it seems to be unsupported but I see links to binaries and docker images on that page.
- Andrew_nenakhov 4y ago
  their solution is to run regular LO on server and then transmit the image to the client app ... and it works abysmally bad compared to google docs.
- davidgerard 4y ago
  The work is being done at Collabora Online. you can download it and play with it: https://www.collaboraoffice.com/code/ https://www.collaboraoffice.com/code/
esskay 4y ago
You can kinda do it with NextCloud and their LibreOffice integration but I wouldn't trust it with anything important given it often breaks during updates.
Aachen 4y ago
It's not LibreOffice, but while revisiting CryptPad (which I thought was a multiplayer notepad like etherpad or codimd, except with an encryption key in the url fragment identifier) I was impressed to see that they're expanding to become an entire office suite. You get a WYSIWYG editor (I'd rather wish for markdown but ok), spreadsheet editor, survey forms, and more which I don't remember, all live like google docs but (as I understand it, I didn't audit it) end to end encrypted between the users. It's a bit heavy because everything has to happen on the client side, so it's a lot of JavaScript, but after the page loads it works smoothly. You can self host it as well, there's a list of instances somewhere on https://cryptpad.org https://cryptpad.org with the official instance being https://cryptpad.fr https://cryptpad.fr LibreOffice has a ton more features and is way harder to port. Case in point: I was at an open source conference where LibreOffice proudly demo'd their new server version. At some point they drop that it uses mapnik. Me, confused, asked huh why'd you use an OpenStreetMap rendering library? Turns out they basically run the ancient C++ UI on the server and make a VNC-like connection and that map tiles is the fastest way to load partial screen updates. At least, that's what I remember from that presentation, I haven't looked into that madness further, but that's LibreOffice online...
- Andrew_nenakhov 4y ago
  yes, that's exactly what I was referring by thing they should just drop. It works really bad. I did look at Cryptopad a few years ago, and, while promising, it is not close to being ready to replace Google docs/sheets anytime soon.

pmontra 4y ago

They kind of have it at https://www.libreoffice.org/download/libreoffice-online/ https://www.libreoffice.org/download/libreoffice-online/ "Kind of" because it seems to be unsupported but I see links to binaries and docker images on that page.

Andrew_nenakhov 4y ago
their solution is to run regular LO on server and then transmit the image to the client app ... and it works abysmally bad compared to google docs.
davidgerard 4y ago
The work is being done at Collabora Online. you can download it and play with it: https://www.collaboraoffice.com/code/ https://www.collaboraoffice.com/code/

esskay 4y ago

You can kinda do it with NextCloud and their LibreOffice integration but I wouldn't trust it with anything important given it often breaks during updates.

Aachen 4y ago

It's not LibreOffice, but while revisiting CryptPad (which I thought was a multiplayer notepad like etherpad or codimd, except with an encryption key in the url fragment identifier) I was impressed to see that they're expanding to become an entire office suite. You get a WYSIWYG editor (I'd rather wish for markdown but ok), spreadsheet editor, survey forms, and more which I don't remember, all live like google docs but (as I understand it, I didn't audit it) end to end encrypted between the users. It's a bit heavy because everything has to happen on the client side, so it's a lot of JavaScript, but after the page loads it works smoothly. You can self host it as well, there's a list of instances somewhere on https://cryptpad.org https://cryptpad.org with the official instance being https://cryptpad.fr https://cryptpad.fr LibreOffice has a ton more features and is way harder to port. Case in point: I was at an open source conference where LibreOffice proudly demo'd their new server version. At some point they drop that it uses mapnik. Me, confused, asked huh why'd you use an OpenStreetMap rendering library? Turns out they basically run the ancient C++ UI on the server and make a VNC-like connection and that map tiles is the fastest way to load partial screen updates. At least, that's what I remember from that presentation, I haven't looked into that madness further, but that's LibreOffice online...

Andrew_nenakhov 4y ago
yes, that's exactly what I was referring by thing they should just drop. It works really bad. I did look at Cryptopad a few years ago, and, while promising, it is not close to being ready to replace Google docs/sheets anytime soon.