@makemrproper said in Odoo - distributed business apps:

@jdaviescoates said in Odoo - distributed business apps:

But in my limited experience of playing around with it I found it severely lacking, and with a terribly confusing UX.
Pretty much all the things it does are done MUCH better by other tools that focuses on doing that task rather than hacking together an Odoo module that kinda sorta does it.

This is wrong.
It is not confusing and provides a clean UX.
The functionality that it offers out of the standard modules are great, and provides plenty of value as they come.
I have used them for business scenarios on and off for 10 years.

It's not wrong, it's just a different perspective.

I was just using their website module which imho was (and very likely still is) "severely lacking, and with a terribly confusing UX" (compared to pretty much any modern website building system, but I was mostly comparing it to WordPress given that's by far the most widely used system).

@makemrproper said in Odoo - distributed business apps:

Please if you want to continue down this rabbit hole discussion, please list tools which are much better suited that replace Odoo.

In this specific instance, fulfilling the needs of this specific client was much easier with WordPress, plus an additional forms plugins (forminator in that case).

@makemrproper said in Odoo - distributed business apps:

I have used them for business scenarios on and off for 10 years.

I think that is likely why you don't find the UX frustrating 😉

I don't doubt for a moment that it's possible to get great value from Odoo - clearly LOTS of people do. But it does seem to need quite a bit of learning before being able to do so effectively.

@girish A couple of years ago, the maintainer of YaCy stated he wasn't going to do any further unpaid work to improve the project. Some improvements have happened since then, though these are largely the result of a paid project he is supporting. I haven't looked at the websited for a while but that certainly has had some big changes of late.

UPDATE!

Big changes have happened on the YaCy project website. There is a live demo of an instance now for people to try:

https://yacy.searchlab.eu/Status.html

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The YaCy Grid project has got off the ground now too. (The maintainer wanted this to be the way forward.)

If you haven't visited https://searchlab.eu recently, it is worth a look

https://searchlab.eu/en/access/download/

Seems to be some Dockerised options: https://www.qwant.com/?q=httpie+docker

@syn awesome 🙂 There's some apps that we are pushing out right now, will get to this. Thanks!

@marcusquinn Yes as you start to scale it becomes increasingly important.

I'm pretty happy with Keycloak for the actual Sign-in part, this looks like an interesting add-on for sharing the roles and profile data.

@Sam_uk yeah, not really 🙂
The commercial offering is not so good and they made it even tougher last year and salesmen were silently ignoring questions: didn't you just increase the price by 20-30%? Why so?

@robi Plebbit looks like it is going to be a strong platform for social media interaction. There is already a beta to try.

https://medium.com/@plebbit/about-plebbit-3edb35ac48f1

This would be a great alternative to Mautic which seems to have a broken builder and one can't save any code changes being made, which can be quite frustrating.

Also it seems easy to package as an npm app with lerna managing all the components.

@LoudLemur Interesting. Thank's for sharing!

Oh very nice, how come this is the first time reading about this? This would be amazing!

@LoudLemur No, not that I know of. You can still run it in the LAMP app though.

@nj there are still useful use cases for having something load balanced within cloudron, such as having multiple vpn services and load/connection balancing across them.

So Nginx to HAproxy to any number of other apps you want control traffic to.

Ideally you could set that up with Nginx, but that's a feature that may become important to the CL team once v8 introduces multi server support.

Does anybody know a good free penetration test tool? When I write a script I pass rats to see any flawless, and of course I do a visual check penetration testing, but I think that the last test must be a "real and hostil enviroment", so I'd like to finad a program that check the scritps while thay are running in my server. Thanks

Hi, just to bump this and share a link to the "rocker project" (https://rocker-project.org/) since they are the standard for maintaining containerized R images. See the image rocker/rstudio

I personally use R for tons of stuff, like interacting with APIs (httr package), creating my own APIs (plumbr), cleaning and transforming datasets (tidyverse) and creating web apps (shiny)

would love to see it packaged in a cloudron app

@robi grab-site is a great suggestion and I hope Cloudron supports it. @jdaviescoates makes a good recommendation too.

After the website is grabbed, the next phase is reading and searching it offline. I don't know if you have had much joy trying that with grab-site.

If grab-site can be supported, it is not very far from being able to support YaCy too, which also visits websites and crawls the pages. There is a request for YaCy support on Cloudron here:

https://forum.cloudron.io/topic/2715/yacy-decentralized-web-search?_=1673430654350