Best posts made by marcusquinn

Hey, big fan of what you're doing here!

Is anyone interested in sponsored App creation?

As a business, we can budget for this as a reasonable expense and happy to contribute to both the creator and the community with helping fund these things.

@JOduMonT I think the world has change now there's more value in data than people released but capitalism knows and is both; competing to acquire, and exploiting, in ways beyond most people's imaginations - until they find election campaigning shenanigans but don't know what to do about it.

So necessary to trust in services; yes.

Trust them with your valuable and private data?

When Google is reading your shopping email confirmations and Facebook is reading everything with a "Like" script, I think it's a responsibility to have parts of your data world not visible to the marketing world.

Privacy, encryption and permissions should be as essential in schooling for the Technology Revolution as literacy was for The Renaissance.

So - data privacy politics for 6.1 anyone?

@girish I'll log a ticket with them and keep you posted. This forum is a sys admin treasure trove of useful experience, so it's the least I can do!

I'm sure we all search for "{app name} alternatives" plenty.

I'm also sure we all benefit from Cloudron having more subscribers and growing the team and community.

Therefore, may I suggest a thread for links to places people are finding Cloudron or similar and using all the goodwill, and many people here, to help with some good old-fashioned organic marketing and pr for the cause.

I've added a review and rating here (surferking):

https://alternativeto.net/software/cloudron/about/

Post any other links and I'm happy to do the same, I'm sure we almost all are. Always genuine reviews - but you don't always get if you don't ask

It's a no - maybe - the shortness of the answer doesn't convince me completely but not an immediate need and with the stories of pretty painless migration I'll post again if I try them again on the subject.

( and plugging Cloudron in all related conversations now )

I'm a fan of open source and certainly encourage it with my team - but it comes with overhead and responsibilities beyond working on the actual product, so it's not something to take on lightly or without expectation for the time-costs in managing that.

On the flip-side open-source is infinite almost free referral marketing.

From a business point of view, I would think that hosts themselves should be the primary target for sponsorship since the more that can offer Cloudron, the broader their potential customer-base and those customers subscription to their resources.

If Cloudron.io were able to Terraform the Cloudron instances to popular hosts and then the cloudron.io site was the only way to manage multiple hosts with a subscription, I could see value in that because the subscription costs is still less than the time-costs being saved.

I'm fine with hybrid models, we can hire developers to fix issues if they have a higher priority for us than you guys but also it is important to me that the platform commitments we make have a sustainable business model to remain motivated and evolving as needs arise.

Your work, your choice, either way big kudos for what you've already done and thanks for saving me a ton of time and money already!

Be handy to see who hasn't accepted their invite email yet (with a resend invite button) and who's not logged in for a while.

Bonus points for a login log to review user engagement with the platform.

Once upon a time there was an awesome app called "Rollbase" - which was unlimited and a pleasure to use for rapid development of relation database apps. Then Progress.com bought them and the whole thing became too commercial and unlikeable.

Directus reminds me of what Rollbase was and could have been and I have been hunting high and low since for something like it.

Then when finding Directus I saw developers that just got this need. It's similar to Strapi.io in some ways - but the way that it can work with any existing DB and any DB created with it can be used in any other way is what truly appeals for openness and non-proprietary data-structure locking that is seemingly quite rare in a sector that usually pursues SaaS and vendor-locking through proprietary data structuring that would otherwise be expensive to move.

I see Directus as fast for modelling a relational database, as Cloudron is for modelling app infrastructure so certainly a kinship for the kind of things this community appreciates I'm sure. It was a random find for me from a Reddit comment so I don't think so well known but Cloudron has also introduced me to many other apps I might never have found otherwise, so the curation Cloudron and the community is gathering into the suite is certainly a valuable part of Cloudron's offering as a brand for these standards and open self-hosted and managed objectives.

https://sercurius.net

Although trying to get perfect scores can drive you bonkers, maybe useful for any quick wins.

Can I add to this; a column for "Invitation Expiry" with the date time value?

I'm getting users getting the invite expired message which creates extra work on boarding. If I'd see the expiry date time I could have messages them the same info.

Bonus points for prominantly adding the invite expiry date time into their email so they also know through that why their sign-up might not work.

FOSS alternative to Pocket/Instapaper/Wallabag

https://getmemex.com
https://github.com/WorldBrain/Memex

Links to the developers site are handy already but a bonus for the App Store would be clickable screenshots to see the gallery full width if possible.

(Although I realise if they aren't already saved larger that might be a challenge in updating them all unless there's a community contributor with time to help out )

This:

Help me find what aliases I've added and where or not.

from me - more integrations than Zapier by the looks of it too.

Bonus points for getting the Cloudron and Mailtrain API integrations added if anyone's into that kind of thing?

Some notes to add on this:

• GPL v3 covers commercial interests nicely and ensure any additions or modifications must also remain open and therefore available back to yourself to choose to include or not as you wish without cost or consequence.
• Include your website link and email in your copyright notice, since the licence specifies that the copyright notice must always remain in-tact and included, to make sure every copy and version links back to yourselves as the originator.

"Apprise allows you to send a notification to almost all of the most popular notification services available to us today such as: Telegram, Discord, Slack, Amazon SNS, Gotify, etc.

• One notification library to rule them all.
• A common and intuitive notification syntax.
• Supports the handling of images and attachments (to the notification services that will accept them).

System owners who wish to provide a notification service no longer need to research each and every new one as they appear. They just need to include this one library and then they can immediately gain access to almost all of the notifications services available to us today.

System Administrators who wish to send a notification from a scheduled task or from the command line also no longer need to find the right tool for the job. Everything is already wrapped and supported within the apprise script that ships with this product."*

• https://github.com/caronc/apprise

Maybe useful for Cloudron Notification options beyond the browser?

@plusone-nick Nice! Looks like a different app though, so would need it's own post for it's own votes.

Nice. We get the same speeds upstream too. Every home has fibre to the router, so there's no copper last-mile.

Don't know why the UK didn't do that, probably cost but they will have to eventually. 5G can't match the ping times so can't see that as making much difference to the average browsing experience.

I know New Jersey and the US well too from work travels, explain the Jersey thing a lot when over that side

This is a good video, we have about 30 beach cafes and bars dotted around the coast - and yes, a geographically, digitally and fiscally it's natural fortress - this one of my favourite spots:

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6arC1Xtyqmk
  (1m 17s Ad for Jersey)

Digital industry there is getting a lot of investment, and I try to champion the open-source cause and promote that by example.

Binance recently relocated to Jersey, I'm sure there will be others.

Nice! I'll be referring without an affiliate link to help the cause but certainly a decent way to get more of the professional bloggers including it in their "Top X for Y" pages.

Great thread!

I kinda like these guys attitude to Spam filtering: https://posteo.de/en/site/faq

(they run on Roundcube for webmail too, so decent endorsement)

"Is there a spam folder?
No, with Posteo there is no spam folder. This was a conscious decision we made. It has advantages for our users. Messages that are not spam can end up in spam folders, where they remain unattended to. The sender thinks that the emails were delivered and read, which often leads to problems.
With Posteo, there are only delivered or rejected emails.
Our spam filter conducts checks against various criteria in the process of receiving an email. If an email is classified as spam, it will not even arrive. The sending server can not deliver the email and informs the sender of this.
The sender can either ignore the reason for classification as spam or try to contact you via a different method. In any case, they receive a notification to say that the email could not be delivered. This process ensures that no email goes missing."