LibreOffice Online: a fresh start - TDF Community Blog
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LibreOffice is a desktop application, but we get many requests for a web-based version of the suite that users can deploy on their own infrastructure. Several years ago, project members started to develop LibreOffice Online, but in 2022 the Board of Directors at The Document Foundation voted to freeze the project and put it in the “attic”, for reasons that have now been superseded. Earlier this month, the current Board of Directors decided to revoke those votes to give new life to the project, as Eliane Domingos, chairperson, put it: To start the process of freeing LibreOffice Online, and to start the journey that will lead to having an online version by the community and for the community. Now the work begins. We plan to reopen the repository for LibreOffice Online at The Document Foundation for contributions, but provide warnings about the state of the repository until TDF’s team agrees that it’s safe and usable – while at the same time encourage the community to join in with code, technologies and other contributions that can be used to move forward. We will actively work with the community to identify how to foster LibreOffice Online, including its technological basis, QA and
  • conorab@lemmy.conorab.comEnglish
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    19 days ago

    Fingers crossed this can be a viable replacement for Collabora Online with Nextcloud, which has been a nightmare.

    • gabmus@retrolemmy.comEnglish
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      18 days ago

      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

  • Reygle@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    18 days ago

    My first gut reaction was “Neat, but no thank you” but the more I think about how many clients COULD be using a cloud hosted privacy respecting platform instead of 365, I quickly bit my lip.

  • SayCyberOnceMore@feddit.ukEnglish
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    19 days ago

    Some new EU funding in the background?

    I’m quite happy with local apps, but I could see the appeal for self-hosting if the server would scale for the client (ie laptop on the desk vs mobile phone on the road)

    • filcuk@lemmy.zipEnglish
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      18 days ago

      For personal use, being able to replace microsoft/google offerings with little to no functionality loss is amazing

    • 3abas@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      18 days ago

      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.

    • Jean-luc Peak-hard@piefed.socialEnglish
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      19 days ago

      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 can’t see any of your data.

      Only downsides so far is that the UX is a bit slow when first loading documents and there are no mobile apps.

      EDIT: Forgot to add the important par, they recently added support for OnlyOffice in the browser, which to me, was a pretty big deal.

  • ulterno@programming.devEnglish
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    18 days ago

    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?

  • unmagical@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    19 days ago

    I hope they’re able to move toward a client first renderer instead of the image tile approach they used previously. That was kinda a network hog and cludgy to use.

  • Squizzy@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    19 days ago

    As someone who is slowly moving off big tech, are there plugins or themes for these office suites that bring then more in line with modern UIs for office suites.

    I hate Msoft and Google but the gsuite has a nice clean set up. Microsoft less so but still doesnt feel as unwieldly as open office. I was doing a doc last night and ended up getting the chrome flatpak and signing into docs.

    • Domi@lemmy.secnd.meEnglish
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      19 days ago

      If we’re talking about online editing, Collabora has web editors based on LibreOffice but with a modern UI: https://www.collaboraonline.com/

      They are really great and can be self hosted (e.g. with Nextcloud).

      For offline editing, as already mentioned, LibreOffice has an optional ribbon UI and OnlyOffice looks pretty modern as well.

  • ilsimoneviaggiatore@feddit.itEnglish
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    18 days ago

    Great!

    I’d love to see libre office on my personal nextcloud instance. That would be an easy and effective “feature” for nextcloud which could be adopted by many business. They’re already running Nextcloud, maybe, for the digital sovereign.

    Anyway, thanks for your efforts!