I tried to selfhost Nextcloud at work (feddit.it)

submitted 3 weeks ago by Moonrise2473@feddit.it to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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And it failed spectacularly.

We only needed a simple form, but we wanted to be fancy, so we used "nextcloud forms".

The docker image automatically updated the install to nextcloud 30, but the forms app requires nextcloud 29 or lower. No warning whatsoever. It's an official app, couldn't they wait that it was ready for NC 30 before launching it? The newsletter boasts "NC hub 9 is the best thing after sliced bread" yet i don't see any difference both in visual or performance compared to NC hub 2

Conclusion: we made our business to rely on nextcloud forms as a signup form, but the only reason we were using it was disabled who knows how many weeks ago.

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[-] ShortN0te@lemmy.ml 6 points 3 weeks ago

They're releasing a new version every two month or so and dropping them rapidly from support, pinning it with a tag means that in 12 months the install would be exploitable.

The lifecycle can be found with a single online search. Here https://github.com/nextcloud/server/wiki/Maintenance-and-Release-Schedule

Releases are maintained for roughly a year.

Set yourself a notification if you forget it otherwise.

[-] Moonrise2473@feddit.it 4 points 3 weeks ago

Exactly, they have a release schedule, why their own plugin, that they're heavily promoting as a feature, isn't following that? If for some reason the forms app isn't ready for that date, why not postponing the launch instead of having it broken for who know how many months?

It's not a plugin made by someone else in their free time. They knew that by updating to NC 30 that feature that was marketed just 6 months ago would be disabled, so at least have the decency to write it in the release notes. I subscribe to the newsletter and the RSS for what, just enjoy the marketing buzzwords?

It's like if Microsoft releases an operating system with a buggy and broken taskbar because of a rushed self imposed deadline and fixes it one year later.

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