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at The Document Foundation voted to freeze the project and put it in the “attic”, for reasons that have now been superseded.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
    • Jean-luc Peak-hard@piefed.socialEnglish
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      1 day 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.

      • Vogi@piefed.socialEnglish
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        2 hours ago

        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.