Oct 22, 2026, 9:48 AM@neil I have a Nextcloud Talk sitting idle here. Usually if we need something we mostly default to Signal as well. It might just not be worth it.
- Oct 22, 2026, 9:48 AM
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Oct 22, 2026, 9:51 AM@kobold It is not, as j moved away from Nextcloud too :)
- Oct 22, 2026, 9:56 AM
@neil What did you move to? Moving off NC requires me to host multiple applications to get to the same feature set and even more need to keep an eye on issues.
- Oct 22, 2026, 9:59 AM
@kobold https://neilzone.co.uk/2026/02/moving-away-from-nextcloud/
Indeed. I preferred a couple of small applications over the Nextcloud behemoth.
Oct 22, 2026, 9:57 AMWhat did you move to? I use NextCloud mostly for three things:
- Syncing photos and Signal backups from my phone (works nicely on Android most of the time, their iOS app is totally unreliable).
- Personal and family calendars (works nicely with a bunch of CalDAV clients. None of us use the web interface).
- Contacts (should work nicely with any CalDAV client but NextCloud's sny with macOS has been broken for many years if you have any contact groups).
I'd rather not have a massive pile of PHP that wants to be a do-everything platform for that limited set of uses.
- Oct 22, 2026, 10:08 AM
Photos: immich
Syncing generally: syncthing
CardDAV/CalDAV: radicals
DragonDragon@toast.dragon2611.netOct 22, 2026, 10:26 AM@neil @david_chisnall @kobold sync-in seems ok for files.
I have a jitsi server because it's installed by the playbook that manages my matrix install, although i'm not sure if the moderator login was working last time I tried to use it.
Colin the MathmoColinTheMathmo@mathstodon.xyzOct 22, 2026, 11:38 AM- Oct 22, 2026, 11:49 AM
@ColinTheMathmo @neil I explicitly pointed at Nextcloud Talk.
- Colin the MathmoColinTheMathmo@mathstodon.xyzOct 22, 2026, 12:08 PM
@kobold OK, so you meant that "Nextcloud Talk" might not be worth the effort. Thank you.
You can stop reading now if you like, but for anyone who might be interested, I'm going to explain my confusion.
You said:
"I have a Nextcloud Talk sitting idle here. Usually if we need something we mostly default to Signal as well. It[0] might just not be worth it."
When you use "it[0]" here, the most recent thing you've referred to is Signal. To me, the word "it" usually references the most recent thing mentioned.
But the semantics are at odds with that, because (as you say) you have mentioned that "Nextcloud Talk" is sitting idle ... so perhaps you meant that.
It genuinely wasn't clear to me, and that's why I asked. I know that different people end up with different defaults in how they interpret these things ... a company I was consulting with once nearly made a multi-million pound mistake for exactly this reason.
Written communication can be hard.
CC: @neil