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ulterno programming.dev ulterno@programming.dev
Joined: 2024-11-12
#52 · Quote Reply

This should open it to being used collaboratively.
Then I can convince wherever I work, to use this instead of going with other MS stuff?

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vogi piefed.social vogi@piefed.social
Joined: 2025-09-07
#53 · Quote Reply

Check out CryptPad.org, it's: Open Source; so it can't be taken away from you should the org cease to exist. Self-hostable; although you can use or pay to use other people's instances. Collaborative; with real-time editing like Google docs Federated; so you can collaborate with others whether you're using a self-hosted instance or using any other server. End-to-end encrypted: The server admins ...

Love Cryptpad, but am I the only one for whom the loading indicator gives a bad flashback to early js framework web development where every website was 16 times the initial load time, 4 times the overall size and just more buggy. Website SPA or not have rarely a good reason to have a loading indicator for the initial load the browser already does that.

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UltraBlack lemmy.world UltraBlack@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-20
#54 · Quote Reply

Wasn't collabora trying to be this

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ulterno programming.dev ulterno@programming.dev
Joined: 2024-11-12
#55 · Quote Reply

But markdown is so easy to learn. They can even ignore most of it, probably.

markdown is so easy to learn

Only for those who want to.
Although someone playing DnD would probably not mind putting in the few minutes required.

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SaveTheTuaHawk lemmy.ca SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca
Joined: 2025-03-07
#56 · Quote Reply

Because you can use it on any device without having to install the whole app and sync the data separately... It's super convenient, and cross-platform. It's still self hosted and you own the data.

yep... I write all my papers in Google because I can access the files anywhere, and nothing beats PaperPile for referencing yet.

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conorab lemmy.conorab.com conorab@lemmy.conorab.com
Joined: 2023-07-19
#57 · Quote Reply

has it been a nightmare? I'm genuinely asking because I have it set up (with nextcloud master container) and although I don't use it very often, the times I do it seems quite alright

I recall spreadsheets being particularly painful on mobile when I’d try to select multiple rows and it would select way more at a time but would need to fouble-check that or find a screen recording if I made one at the time.

The main issues is there was a bug where if there is an open session for a document in Collabora (including dead sessions say from mobile) and that Collabora server is shut down in the wrong order, then all changes including if you click “Save” will be lost. A bug was opened for this and closed by making sure the servers shut down in the correct order, but I don’t know if that fixes cases where the servers a hard shutdown.

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