Pydio free file sharing

[christiaan]

I was just checking out the web demo of their latest version (they call it Pydio Cells now) and it's really awesome, super snappy:
https://demo.pydio.com

They also have delta sync, mobile apps, very nice web interface and support for onlyoffice web browser editors.

Gets my vote. I think this would be a much better fit for me than Nextcloud.

Full setup is not one-click though:
https://pydio.com/en/docs/cells/v1/launching-docker

And this from girish:

@girish said in [Suggestion] Server-Wide Database Manager and File Browser:

@gabrielcossette Thanks for the suggestion! We actually investigated this a couple of releases back and it's not simple to add. For the file browser, the UI parts are actually straight forward but the complication is with accessing the docker volumes. Accessing the data inside docker volumes will require the box code to somehow know the container user (to get the right permissions for files) and will also require the box code to run as root. This requires quite some engineering work.
Just giving some background on why this has not been done yet.

[christiaan]

@yusf said in Pydio free file sharing:

I couldn’t get an instance up and running locally to check LDAP support availability in the free version, maybe someone else can check?

Looks like you need to be running on enterprise version for that:
https://pydio.com/en/pricing

Needed for role-based ACLs and compliance features too.

[yusf]

Sounds like the usual open core business model then. In such cases sometimes the community develops its own enterprise-grade plugins. Seems like that hasn't happened in this case.

[yusf]

Would anyone be interested in sponsoring a Pydio LDAP plugin?

[marcusquinn]

Looks decent, and seems a bit faster than Nextcloud - I'm interested too.

[A Former User]

@marcusquinn looks like Pydio Cells is rewritten in golang and performs quite a bit faster than the previous version. I remember trying to get it working at one point and don't remember what issue I ran into. I'll maybe take another look in a bit. Prepping for an interview rn

[ericdrgn]

@atridad Haha! Funny how it seems a few of us recently found this again around the same time. Was gonna request this get added and saw this from way back in 2018. would love to see this. Cubby has potential to be what I want (Nextcloud is overly bloated) buuuuut Pydio seems to check a lot and I just found it myself. Would be a great addition!

[robi]

@ericdrgn Are you going to want to integrate spreed next?

[A Former User]

@ericdrgn trying to figure out a weird annoying db issue with my package I'm working on

[A Former User]

I have my issue on their github here:
https://github.com/pydio/cells/issues/331

If anyone in @staff or @appdev know what might be going on, please let me know.

[A Former User]

Repo is here: https://git.atridad.dev/alt-ron/cloudron-pydio-app

Its very experimental right now. Looks like it needs a restart once you finish the setup. Now to automate (whatever I can, anyways).

Also now I have an issue with their collabora plugin. Looks like it just comes up blank and I cannot figure out if its something I am doing, an issue with the collabora app, or an issue with the Pydio app.

[A Former User]

OK I did some testing and found a few things:

The good:

• F A S T
• Clean UI

The bad:

• Horrible mobile app (can't even do native sharing?????)
• On the topic of the app, there is no mobile sync to be found...
• High resource usage while doing shit all
• LDAP is only on the enterprise distribution
• OnlyOffice is only on the enterprise distribution
• The Collabora integration doesn't play nice with the cloudron Collabora app

Its a cool app but fails to meet my needs. Either way I guess the code is there if anyone has an inclination to take it further.

[necrevistonnezr]

@atridad Thanks for your efforts and testing! It’s another case of having great software and doing the mobile app as an afterthought, I guess, like so many others. Today should always be mobile first!

[micmc]

@necrevistonnezr said in Pydio free file sharing:

@atridad Thanks for your efforts and testing! It’s another case of having great software and doing the mobile app as an afterthought, I guess, like so many others. Today should always be mobile first!

Absolutely, though sometimes some open source apps have started development before the 'mobile happening' so I guess that makes it more difficult to them to get on the bandwagon.

Cheers!
Andy

[murgero]

Teaser

[girish]

@murgero very nice! Is pydio like nextcloud but just for file sharing ? It also seems the project is now called "Cells" , is it?

[A Former User]

@girish yeah. It runs on a golang backend I think. Works alright. The mobile app isn’t quite as good as Nextcloud’s but it imo it’s better layout on the browser compared to nextcloud.

[A Former User]

@murgero Oooooo is this pydio cells or the older PHP version? I cant remember what issues I had packaging it but im glad you got it working!

[murgero]

@girish @atridad yeah - packaged it last night. It's Pydio Cells now. This is the latest stable cells version as of last night.

It takes like 5 minutes for the first boot but after that runs fast. It has some issues with file permissions still but I'll work on that later.

[A Former User]

@murgero