Cubby - Open Source File Sharing

[girish]

@scooke yes, the folder icon is really just a place holder logo. We need to find some time to make some real logo.

[ruihildt]

That's great!

I'll try this out, I share your frustrations with regard to the current solutions.

For me the most important part is the sync aspect from mobile/desktop. I want to have a straightforward and firstclass experience sharing files between my devices.

Do you have in mind what the future workflow will be like in that regard?

[robi]

The About menu once logged in needs some love..

[mehdi]

@ruihildt From what I understood of the post, the idea is to use existing WebDAV sync clients. So there should already be good ones for all platforms.

[nebulon]

@robi ha, yes lots of placeholder content still.

For anyone interested in the collabora integration, if you install collabora on the same Cloudron and then edit the config.json for cubby like the following with your collabora domain, it can already open ods and odt files:

{
    "collabora": {
        "host": "https://office.example.com"
    }
}

[ruihildt]

@mehdi Do you have any good recommandations in mind?

[mehdi]

@ruihildt On the Linux side, I believe Gnome and KDE both have native support for mounting webdav, not syncing to a local folder though. Not sure on other OSs.

[robi]

@nebulon said in Cubby - Open Source File Sharing:

@robi ha, yes lots of placeholder content still.

For anyone interested in the collabora integration, if you install collabora on the same Cloudron and then edit the config.json for cubby like the following with your collabora domain, it can already open ods and odt files:

{
    "collabora": {
        "host": "https://office.example.com"
    }
}

Does this not work with OnlyOffice?

[MooCloud_Matt]

Maybe storage already on S3, it's easier to maintain and it's scalable, redundant, easy to have a remote backend for storage.

A good fit for the new multiserver cloudron.

[girish]

@moocloud_matt maybe you can open feature request on github

[robi]

@girish instead of doing just an app integration, I think making it a general Cloudron integration would be better, and cover a lot more apps.
Mount S3 and store certain directories of Apps there.

[girish]

@robi I guess you mean something like a s3fs or fuse mount? From whag I have heard, they are not very stable. And also, they don't support file permissions and meta data afaik .

[neurokrish]

@nebulon @girish will there be a search option for files? It will be nice to have an indexing mechanism for files that are already ocr'd, instead of just looking for the file names.

[robi]

@girish No, I mean more like rclone

[MooCloud_Matt]

@girish
I will,
I just think that standard storage backend will make also your job easier to maintain it in the future.

[nebulon]

@robi said in Cubby - Open Source File Sharing:

@nebulon said in Cubby - Open Source File Sharing:

@robi ha, yes lots of placeholder content still.

For anyone interested in the collabora integration, if you install collabora on the same Cloudron and then edit the config.json for cubby like the following with your collabora domain, it can already open ods and odt files:

{
    "collabora": {
        "host": "https://office.example.com"
    }
}

Does this not work with OnlyOffice?

OnlyOffice uses a different kind of API and iframe integration, which is currently not implemented. I've created a feature request for this at https://github.com/cloudron-io/cubby/issues/18

[yusf]

Good news, a highly anticipated development! With a shared storage with the Syncthing app I suppose the apps may work in conjunction?

[A Former User]

Just tried the latest release and I love it! I think I'd be ready to use it once I can do the following:

1. Sync via webdav
2. Manage users
3. Configure storage limit per-user
4. Use OnlyOffice

Right now I use NextCloud for email + calendar + files + contacts. I'd like to move the first three to Sogo and use Cubby as a dedicated file storage app for clients. It looks promising! Keep up the excellent work!

[nebulon]

@atridad usermanagement is probably out-of-scope for some time, since on Cloudron this would be done in the Cloudron dashboard. There is a small cli tool already though for local non-LDAP users.

If you have any specific feature requests around that, might be good to open a github issue to track those.

[marcusquinn]

Just seen this, nice work! @nebulon & @girish I can see the need, potential and definitely happy to help with testing and feedback.

The Apps I do find handy in Nextcloud, that I think are fair-game to be features for Cubby, without being feature-creep, are the Photos Explorer and Map Explorer for Photos. Our users really like both of those in Nextcloud, although wish they were a bit faster of course!

Mountain Duck pretty-much does everything the Nextcloud sync app does for those looking at alternatives there, although at a cost.

I'd like to see a Compact view, similar to Google Drive. These over-sized, over-spaced UIs do seem to infantalise things to me, when anything used in anger really needs to make better use of screen space when most users are on smaller screens.