We should actually use an opensource, decentralized and private alternative instead of relying on another centralized service
See Fileverse for example: https://fileverse.io/
this post was submitted on 16 Mar 2025
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Well this software is more intended for administrative staff working for the government, so I don't think that decentralisation is their goal here.
What do folks think of cryptpad? ~~Thinking of~~ more like planning on switching from proton after CEO bullshit
I personally really like Cryptpad. I haven't heard of Fileverse, so I'll check it out. Cryptpad is the closest thing I've found to a drop-in Google Suite replacement.
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Yeah agreed - anything not FOSS is just setting up another bad situation waiting to happen
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Is there a German-hosted instance? The URL https://docs.numerique.gouv.fr/login/ is making me wanna barf and no way I'm clicking it to risk seeing more Fr*nch.
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It's just for the French civil service, right?
No America's club
It looks closer to the markdown style of formatting though, and I doubt it has page formatting, or other more advanced formatting, or extensions, or a large selection of fonts. Honestly, even though docs has pageless formatting now, most people don't use it when they should, making everything unnecessary harder to read, so this will be better in that regard at least. This is probably good enough for 95% of what people use Docs for, but I wouldn't call it a replacement.
I haven't used it because I don't have a French government account, so correct me if I'm wrong about any of that.
Edit: it looks like it only has 1 font and no page formatting
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So FramaSoft is not a thing ?? It's French
Pretty good project, but is it the future to have mainly web apps?
For offline editing there's already LibreOffice
LibreOffice does everything I need it to and there's no need for anything else.
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Bro has been sleeping under a rock for the past 10 years.
It’s definitely been the direction of travel for the last several years. Not because the products are better, but because it’s easier to develop for just the browser than for Mac, Windows, and Linux.
it’s easier to develop for just the browser than for Mac, Windows, and Linux.
They also work on android and IOS. You are also not dependent on the different toolkits. Also it is so much more performant.
They also work on android and IOS.
I can imagine it'll be a 160 MB app that loads the website in a webview, like it usually is
A bit of both I guess
Web apps have the advantage of not requiring admin permission and being accessible from pretty much everywhere, and they are often less intensive I believe
And I guess cloud storage of documents makes it even better
I guess I don't mind if I can self host the server. If I can't I have no interest in touching it.
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Just checked the part about self-hosting. While it's probably possible to handle things with a less heavy approach, their only "easy to use" example right now is to have a full-blown kubernetes cluster at hand or run locally in the source directory. That's a bit much.
In the README there's also instructions for Docker Compose, although it's quite the compose file, with SIXTEEN containers defined. Not something I'd want to self-host.
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If I can copy and paste with thought having to install the offline plugin, then I'm in.