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> I think this is very bad news for roundcube.

Roundcube has been languishing a bit since the failed Roundcube-next fiasco. You can criticize the Nextcloud group for many things but at least they have proven to be consistent with pushing forward their open source projects.

> tangled and ugly mess of a UI

Maybe I'm an odd one but I have no issues with the UI. It's clean yet more info dense than many other commercial offerings.

> It is slow

I have mine working better than any google property. Nextcloud relies heavily on a performant database setup, so moving that to a separate NVME drive was one of the greatest improvements I ever made. That and properly handling image preview generation.

> Problem with free and open source software is that you have to follow the passion of the devs

Nextcloud is produced by a commercial entity, they are not a passion project. They target large installations and so tend to focus on that use-case. This makes tuning the stack to a small deployment a little bit of work.




The bad news is that webdevs will ship the fiasco.




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