I cannot believe people here are defending this and they are like Okay price increases are normal

I guess we get what we deserve after all..

Who's coming on board the self-hosted Nextcloud etc train? choo choo !

yep! alternatives do exist - and Nextcloud is a good decent one

that's very cool, thanks

ha ha I guess that's one way to write an essay - have an assumption which we all know is incorrect, and then successfully dismount it to pieces !

yeah nah mate, it is 100% tone deaf - does not reflect the frustration of the OP

you don't reply like this to just open forum

lazy ass business world reply

you get in touch ASAP and personally, if you really want to keep them

so many people seem to be complaining that it got worse - duh? it was always shite platform guys c'mon :)

but indeed unfortunately there is not many other things doing real-time info better than X / Twitter

nice app ! definitely is needed for many in this brave new world we are living in, so many things to keep track of..

I think it'll be a combination of hardware of course, but also better software - surely there is a better way of doing this (like our brains do) which will eventually require less power

great post thank you !

does anyone have some tips & tricks on how to optimise Nextcloud installation for better performance, perhaps some server-side tweaks can improve things a bit also?

I have one running in a small VM (4 GB ram) and it's OK for what it is, but yeah that initial loading delay is very noticeable ..

https://docs.nextcloud.com/server/stable/admin_manual/instal... is a great place to start.

So much depends on your use case. Can you say more about that? And what have you already tried? I'm skeptical their server-side tuning suggestions will improve your "initial loading delay" depending on what that means exactly. If you mean you see a slow cold cache page load of the Files app web UI (or any Nextcloud app, really) then I'd say that's common with many complex JS-heavy web apps, including Nextcloud.

FWIW, my Nextcloud web UI seems as fast as I'd expect. Roughly 5sec to load the Files app completely in Firefox (logged-in & warm cache) and this is roughly the same time Google Drive takes to do the same thing! Navigating folders actually feels faster in Nextcloud Files.

I'm not using the web UI except when I have to. I do as much as possible locally (e.g. editing docs, contacts/calendars/tasks). I mostly use Nextcloud for mobile and desktop file/calendar/contacts/photo/notes/tasks sync & share and it seems to do quite well at this. Server-side I did spend a lot of time tuning at first, but it has been stable for years once I got it to a good place.

is Immich that thing? I've played with it, but didn't really dig deeper

they claim they can do it all when it comes to pictures and videos etc

Immich is actually usable, thumbnail previews work without any previous setup, and the mobile app is pretty responsive

Unlike Nextcloud, I feel I can rely on it and feel I can upgrade without issues

That sounds really promising, maybe my family would be better suited to something like that.

I will say though, Nextcloud is almost painless when it comes to management. I’ve had one or two issues in the past, but their “all in one” docker setup is pretty solid, I think. It’s what I’ve been using for the last year or so.

I use my Nextcloud as a general file storage thing, I just emphasized the photo aspect because that’s my family’s main use case.

I have heard of Immich though, perhaps I owe it an honest try someday.

Immich is way better if all you need is photo storage. It's Google photos level.