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by zokier 503 days ago
What about tools like LibreOffice Base and KDEs Kexi?
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I think they're pretty different use cases. LibreOffice Base and Kexi are desktop database frontends focused on local databases, while Mathesar is web-based, self-hosted, can be connected to a remote database, and built for multi-user collaboration.
Far too technical for the target audience, who has never heard of a "linux" and doesn't care about cost, software freedom, the petite tyranny happily imposed by corporations, etc, they just want it to "just work" on their smartphone browser.
The main problem with them is they are not working yet and there are not enough people working on improving that.