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[–] cley_faye@lemmy.world 120 points 1 day ago (4 children)

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.

[–] Lodra@programming.dev 14 points 1 day ago (8 children)

Honestly, k8s is super easy and very lightweight to run locally if you know the rights tools. There are a few good options but I prefer k3d. I can install Docker/k3d and also build a local cluster running in maybe 2 minutes. It’s excellent for local dev. Even good for production in some niche scenarios

[–] lostbit@feddit.nl 2 points 18 hours ago (2 children)

k8s is overkill for a lot of homelabs. Using docker compose is a fraction of that complexity

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[–] Metju@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

Seconding k3d (and, by extension, k3s). If you're in a market for sth suitable for more upstream-compliant clustering solution (k3s uses SQLite instead of etcd, iirc), RKE2 is also a great choice

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[–] Tramort@programming.dev 3 points 1 day ago

Please develop this self hosted version using sandstorm

It makes hosting a breeze with one click installation

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[–] foremanguy92_@lemmy.ml 20 points 1 day ago (12 children)

Pretty good project, but is it the future to have mainly web apps?

[–] azalty@jlai.lu 10 points 1 day ago (2 children)

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

[–] Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 4 points 22 hours ago (2 children)

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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[–] WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 1 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

no office software requires admin eighter unless you want to install it for all users

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[–] MITM0@lemmy.world 12 points 1 day ago* (last edited 22 hours ago)

So FramaSoft is not a thing ?? It's French

[–] Agent641@lemmy.world 4 points 21 hours ago

No America's club

[–] kambusha@sh.itjust.works 63 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Surprised they didn't go with cryptpad - aren't they already French?

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[–] BalpeenHammer@lemmy.nz 47 points 1 day ago (2 children)

What was wrong with libre?

[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 75 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Pretty sure Libre only does local document collaboration, having it online is helpful for teams far from each other or who simply don't have the infrastructure for their own central server of this kind.

[–] ulair@lemmy.world 48 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Well this has been running in our Nextcloud and works pretty well collaboratively :) https://github.com/CollaboraOnline/online not sure how it scales, but definitely an alternative that can be built on

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[–] turnip@sh.itjust.works 26 points 1 day ago (2 children)

The web browser is the future, especially for a crappy document editor and spread sheet.

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[–] AdrianTheFrog@lemmy.world 1 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (1 children)

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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[–] ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org -2 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

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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[–] hikuro93@lemmy.ca 33 points 1 day ago* (last edited 22 hours ago)

Yes, that's excellent. We need our own Google suite. Fingers crossed so that it may come eventually.

[–] Boxscape@lemmy.sdf.org 15 points 1 day ago

Great news!

This is probably the last hump for me before I can completely degoogle.

[–] jaxxed@lemmy.ml 0 points 17 hours ago

If I can copy and paste with thought having to install the offline plugin, then I'm in.

[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 14 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Nice. Where is the source, on github (I didn't see it but I only skimmed)? Federated? Self-hostable?

[–] whatsgoingdom@rollenspiel.forum 33 points 1 day ago (1 children)

From briefly looking over the toot, I think the German version is called openDesk (bad choice as there seems to be some interior design software with the same name) there is a community version you can self host in a docker container. They apparently also have distro packages for Debian and Ubuntu but they seem to have stopped development on those.

Here's a link: https://opendesk.eu/en/

[–] mtoboggan@feddit.org 20 points 1 day ago

openDesk is a complete suite of open source software. I guess Docs could at some point become a part of it. But it‘s not the same thing.

[–] chameleon@fedia.io 27 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Github: https://github.com/suitenumerique/docs

Self-hostable, but it seems like an absolute behemoth of an application if their "non-production-use-only" docker-compose file is to be believed, and I couldn't find any production-ready deployment instructions on a quick skim. No obvious signs of federation and I didn't see anything on their roadmap, not sure it would make a lot of sense for this though.

[–] cley_faye@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

Deployment instructions start with the prerequisite that you have a full kubernetes cluster with ingress laying around, so… yeah. It looks like it'll be on the heavy side.

[–] beerclue@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago

https://github.com/suitenumerique/docs

Self-hostable, needs Minio (or any S3 compatible system).

[–] timewarp@lemmy.world 12 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (11 children)

I got a kick out of Google Docs alternative since it is trying to be AnyType, AFFiNE, AppFlowy, etc and none of those editors are stupid enough to claim to be Google Docs alternatives nor are they a bloated mess. Proof is in the pudding though... Try putting 1 inch margins on a page & add tab stops with this & printing it out where you get the same results.. oh wait, you can't... Cause it isn't a Google Docs alternative.

[–] sudneo@lemm.ee 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

None of those tools are editors, right? They all try to be a notion alternative, which is also not an editor. There is basically 0 focus on typesetting.

[–] timewarp@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

That is what I'm saying this editor is trying to be Notion, not Google Docs.

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[–] surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I disagree. There's Microsoft Office, and there's everything else. Google is in that second bucket.

[–] wittycomputer@feddit.org 11 points 1 day ago

There's Libre office for those who like freedom and open source tech.

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