Am I the only one here that got really bad experience with nextcloud and didn’t figured how to make it work correctly?

I’m talking about painfully slow login pages, ages to show files, even upgraded hardware with disk entirely capable of saturing full gig network connection and still…
Getting only about ~30ish MB/s when downloading from nextcloud.
Incredly slow document loading with collabora…

Even if my hardware is not new-gen, a app like immich works flawlessly and loads everything instantly.
Is it the fault of next cloud or am I doing something wrong?
Are alternatives like seafile or openCloud better?

Willing your help fellow selfhosters

  • otacon239@lemmy.worldEnglish
    31·
    1 day ago

    I constantly would get files stuck in the database that I couldn’t delete. All of the forum posts would talk about going into the database to fix it, but the whole point of NextCloud for me was to completely avoid database management.

    I’ve fallen back to using DUFS or copyparty for most things since I really just needed my file store to be browsable via web in some cases.

    I probably would still be using NextCloud if they didn’t obfuscate the file system.

    • ikidd@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      11 hours ago

      They don’t obfuscate the filesystem, it’s right there in clear folder trees under each username in the chosen data folder with all the filenames you see in the UI, you can do whatever you want with it.

      I hear this bullshit constantly and I go back to check just to make sure I’m not fooling myself and there it is. Where do people get this from, do you not know how to navigate a filesystem?

      • otacon239@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        11 hours ago

        It’s been a long while since I used it and at one point I did figure out how to browse it, but I remember documentation pointing out that it’s meant to be left alone and do all your file management through NextCloud itself.

        Sometimes I needed to do big file operations or drop in a chunk of data straight from the server, but it wouldn’t ingest those files unless I did a sync or upload them using the client.

        Maybe things have changed, but last I used it, it was 14 services that were all sort of good when I needed the service to do one thing really well.