[Owncloud] My feedback about ownCloud 5

[Dan O'Brien]

I think your sentiments are felt by many who had hopes of independent 
cloud storage in ownCloud.  I agree, it is too buggy to actually use and 
be productive with on any kind of scale.  With each release it gets 
marginally better, but it needs some sort of major overhaul in terms of 
sharing and the sync client among other issues.

I like the concept as well, and I do think it will get there at some 
point and the developers are doing very nice work, but I think messages 
like these are important for newcomers to see to save them some time.  
It is just not reliable as it is today, owncloud needs people to bug 
test and provide feedback, my experience has told me as well it is not 
ready to replace your dropbox or gdrive or whatever, unless you are 
prepared to deal with issues on a very regular basis.  Newcomers need to 
know that.

-Dan


On 6/4/2013 5:27 AM, Thomas ROBERT wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> I'm using owncloud for a few month now and I would like to give you my
> feedback about it. So this message is mostly for the developers of
> ownCloud.
>
> Just to give you some context, I'm the "CIO" of an association and we
> need a storage system.
> The specifications of our system is:
> - storage of the files on the cloud
> - we have different folders, one for each of our activity (~ 3 Go,
> mostly odp and pdf but also sometimes bigger files)
> - 1 computer sync with all the files (synced with the master user)
> - users that can have access to some of the folders of the master user
> (sharing configuration chosen by this master user) and that need to be
> able to sync them of their personal computer
>
> We first use Dropbox with its sharing option and client sync. A few
> month ago, I chose to switch from Dropbox to ownCloud because it
> seemed to have nice advantages (keeping files on my own server, having
> the storage space I want, better managing of user accounts, calendar
> function, etc.).
>
> Currently I must say that the sharing and deleting function of
> owncloud is quite problematic regarding my intense usage of it, and
> far away from those of Dropbox and Google Drive.
> ownCloud is based on a very nice concept but still have - I think -
> some very big issues to fix before being ready for a powerful use. I'm
> having for example big difficulties with the client software (don't
> sync, ...), with versionning and the deletion of shared files etc.
>
> I also feel like the development of ownCloud is either slow or focused
> on things I don't see or use.  When I propose a vital function
> according to me, it seems that in your system it's impossible to be
> done. Ex : https://github.com/owncloud/core/issues/3058
> Maybe it's just because ownCloud is developed for another kind of
> usage than mine. Maybe my usage is a bit particular. But if you think
> modifying ownCloud to fit my usage is worth it, maybe you should
> reconsider how some big feature like sharing or deleting works because
> it seems to me that you are stuck with the way it currently works.
>
> Again, I love the concept of ownCloud, but I'm using it for quite a
> while now and I'm now thinking of switching again for Google Drive
> because of all the problems I'm having with ownCloud. And I'm quite
> sad about it.
>
> I just wanted to give you guys my feedback of this software that I do
> love in the concept, even if I'm having problems with it.
>
> Have a nice day.
> Bye.
> Thomas ROBERT
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