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I applaud the technical achievement, but I fear this is the kind of feature creep that kills projects. There were quite a few open source "groupware" projects t
by franga2000 1y ago
I applaud the technical achievement, but I fear this is the kind of feature creep that kills projects. There were quite a few open source "groupware" projects that are now close to forgotten because what people really needed was a [email server] that integrated nicely with their existing [files,office,ticketing...], but the "groupware" options were too tightly bundled and hard to integrate.
Swap the brackets for any feature and you'll probably find a "suite" that did that thing the best, but ultimately failed because it wasn't the best at everything else too.
Nextcloud already has calendar, contacts and especially files covered quite well, but it can't be configured to use external providers for those. Anyone who wants a complete self-hosted solution (everything from federated file shares to web forms, collaborative editing, appointments, tasks...) will definitely want to stick with Nextcloud, so they'll have to turn off all these new features.
I just worry that with time, this will become another "all in one" suite that does one or even a few things reeeally well (email), but is too annoying to properly integrate with everything else.
Yes, Nextcloud is also in danger of becoming that, but they've done a very good job of moving things into optional extensions and giving you plenty of integration options for plugging in external software. It's very good at being the hub that other things plug into, but you can't have two hubs...