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by Aeolun 2489 days ago
To give the opposite view, my experience with Nextcloud was a disaster.

The setup was painful, the UI would randomly not respond to my requests, and in general it just felt like a bad PHP hobby project.

Then to top it off their sync client basically deleted half of my photo collection for some reason, and nobody seemed to have any idea why, in general adopting a ‘that sometimes happens, just reset the sync client’ stance.

I mean, that’s cool, but meanwhile it’d synched the deletion across all my machines.

Thankfully I had everything still synched to Google Drive as well, but I need to be able to trust my sync client.

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Sadly this happened to me to, I synced the deletion of my complete music library to all the devices. Lucky my that I had the CDs and download codes from the vinyls, but it was quite some work to get it back.

Since then I use NextCloud for calendar and addressbook sync, notes sync and a browser mail frontend if I'm not on any of my own computers.