Does breaking stuff happen often? I plan to use the docker image nextcloud:stable-fpm in the hopes of bypassing some bugged releases.

In a span of a year, I had small visual bugs appear, drag and drop not working (have to manually click “upload from computer”). Easiest way to avoid them is to wait before switching to a new major release. So things regularly break, but they’re not essential and your data should always stay safe.

I don’t know the docker container you linked but if it does that, or if you wait a bit before updating, then you should mostly be fine

Yea if you don’t need much then you can do with exporting not a lot of stuff.

Google is evil but I know that GDrive has pretty low prices on data storage

There are many cold storage services out there with good pricing. If you need a VPS with good storage (to automate sync, etc… idk), I know I would use Interservers, based in the USA, priced at 3$/TB/month (HDD)

But if you only want to sync a small amount then you can do with free services, probably. Don’t forget to encrypt everything when uploading to these services! Don’t want them to be able to see the content of your files.

Sure! I always try this

A small downside: you can’t seem to restrict people commenting on a file you shared. There’s a built in “discuss about this file” feature but it shouldn’t really be a problem, unless you intend on sharing a file to a looot of people, because afaik you can’t moderate it

I’ll definitely have to try that before trying to send out links.

Yea, I recommend you always test features to see how they work and what they imply (and if they’re bugged, because Nextcloud often updates and sometimes breaks small things)

The defaults are too strict. Removing them removes a lot of things and is counter productive in terms of fingerprinting.

Zen seems interesting

• Are the documents you edit with the online editor files which are visible in the online drive?: Yes. It works like Google drive basically, and yea, I don’t use an external editor or something. I just create or upload a file to the cloud, and edit it there using the built in web editor (you just open the file and it opens the editor)

• Does nextcloud use the open document specifications for saving documents (e.g. .odt, .ods)?: Yes. I believe they use a modified version of Collabora or something. By default, you use the same extensions you’d use with libre software like collabora or libreoffice. It supports opening documents from word, PowerPoint and excel… but often fucks up the formatting in some parts (much like libreoffice)

• Can you view these files without opening them in the editor (like the preview in google drive)?: No. You view them only via the editor. It should respect permissions though, so if you share a file with read access only, they won’t be able to edit it in the editor.

You can use any format you want in Nextcloud, it’s just that they might not be supported by their built in editors, but they’ll work fine.

The reason I use the built in editors is that multiple people can work on a single file at the same time

You’re welcome!

The offsite rule is mainly in the scenario where your house burns down for example, or if someone steals your stuff. It can happen.

Maybe your electricity will have variations and will fuck up all your devices in a specific location…

Nextcloud does have a problem with the online editor. It frequently bugs out and moves things out of order or just doesn’t feel snappy.

Some time ago there was also saving issues

I only sync my computer and I have nothing to report. It just works. There’s just a small bug when you just create a file on windows and start editing it, the file shows as being edited by Nextcloud for a couple of seconds, but then it works. It’s just on the initial creation.