[Owncloud] My feedback about ownCloud 5

Wed Jun 5 14:51:41 UTC 2013

As a person that uses Owncloud and watches the mailing list I would like to
note this:

The developers are very good at responding to bug reports. If you have a
specific reproducible issue, report it! They will fix it and the problems
will go away.

I think this is one problem that people have had - yes there are issues, so
report them to the Github bug tracker and help test for them to get fixed.
Mike

On Wed, Jun 5, 2013 at 9:20 AM, Jakub Moscicki <Jakub.Moscicki at cern.ch>wrote:

> Hi Laszlo et all,
>
> I think it is very useful to exchange experiences and I would like to
> learn from yours...
>
> Would you mind sharing how many users do you have and what is the scale of
> the use (files, file sizes, daily transfers)? Are all your users in one
> site or are they distributed?
>
> What kind of configuration are you running server-side? And do you
> possibly know if you have many client platforms on your system?
>
> I am very puzzled because it appears that different people have radically
> different experiences - such as shown in this email thread - and I wonder
> where this comes from. Maybe there is some server side configuration that
> works better then others…  or maybe different scale or set of client
> platforms...
>
> Many thanks,
>
> kuba
>
> --
>
> On Jun 5, 2013, at 4:06 PM, Tornóci László
>  <tornoci.laszlo at med.semmelweis-univ.hu>
>  wrote:
>
> > On 06/05/2013 03:44 PM, Christian Dähn wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >> I'm CIO, too and have the same problems: I like OC and it's concept
> >> but can't use it in production environments, yet...
> >>
> >> Currently I'm stucked to the 4.x release and follow this mailinglist
> >> to findout, if the big problems with the sync clients are fixed and
> >> the long term awaited encryption is available...
> >>
> >> Sadly my OC server is not used for over an half year now by our
> >> users, because of serious bugs of the client (thousands of conflict
> files,
> >> no sync and hughe traffic because of endless loops inside the client)...
> >>
> >> I would love to see these major problems solved and sometimes I'm
> >> a little bit frustrated when I see, that devs spend their time make the
> >> user interface more fancy etc.
> >>
> >> ciao,
> >> Chris
> >
> > My experience is different. By the time I started to offer my users
> "production service" version 5 became available. Yes, there are some really
> frustrating problems, like you cannot tell the program which addressbook to
> put a new contact to (makes the use of multiple addressbooks and sharing of
> them impossible).
> >
> > But in my experience the developers are quite helpful, and usually they
> respond to issues reported on github fast. They do a lot more than just
> making the interface more fancy.
> >
> > I've been following the development of OC for about half a year now, and
> I am quite impressed by the pace of improvement.
> >
> >                                       Yours: Laszlo
> >
> >>
> >> > On 5. Juni 2013 at 15:32 Dan O'Brien <danobrie at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > 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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