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LibreOfficeAnother update for today: We're planning to revive LibreOffice Online, a web-based version of the suite that users can deploy on their own infrastructure: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/02/24/libreoffice-online-a-fresh-start/
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stephen m 🍞🌹🇵🇸@libreoffice This is great news!! And something that I have wanted for for so long. And yes I have used the other open source versions but felt that you all should lead the path :)
Simon Rolfmore@libreoffice fantastic news!
Michel PatriceSomething that doesn’t need to be integrated in Nextcloud or in something else would be greatly appreciated.
And live multi-user collaboration capability would be awesome.
Scott Williams 🐧@MichelPatrice @libreoffice You can run Collabora Office standalone. The Nextcloud integration just makes a lot of sense if you're after a Google Docs+Drive experience.
Deborah Preuss, pcc 🇨🇦@deborahh @MichelPatrice @libreoffice That's essentially what you can already do now with CODE and Nextcloud. It'll be interesting to see how it if this diverges from CODE.
@vwbusguy @MichelPatrice @libreoffice I've never heard of CODE. Is that a publicly available cloud platform?
Sebastian Z@vwbusguy @MichelPatrice @libreoffice also throwing @protonprivacy Docs in here, functionally simplistic but lookwise amazing!
@sebzuen @MichelPatrice @libreoffice @protonprivacy Unless I'm missing something obvious, that doesn't appear to be LibreOffice based?
I'm not sure if you are replying to ma about Collabora, but my understanding is that Collabora is based on LibreOffice. (See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collabora second paragraph.)
I didn't know that it could run standalone. I installed it using Yunohost and self-hosting knowledge and capacities are somewhat limited.
@MichelPatrice Yeah, Collabora is based on libreoffice. I was replying to Sebastian who brought up Proton Docs and I didn't think that was.
Sam D@vwbusguy @MichelPatrice having tried to use proton docs to collaborate on household stuff with my wife, it’s very simple. I’m not exactly sure why proton is reinventing the wheel here.
@vwbusguy
no true, Proton is not based on LibreOffice,
just got reminded because Drive+Docs were mentioned, but right, it doesnt fit here after all :))
no true, Proton is not based on LibreOffice,
just got reminded because Drive+Docs were mentioned, but right, it doesnt fit here after all :))
LC Wanderlust@sebzuen @vwbusguy @MichelPatrice @libreoffice @protonprivacy would be awesome to have import/export with OpenDocument formats from Proton docs/calc 🥰
Bobsee@libreoffice Thank you so much for what you do!
Børge@libreoffice Sounds very interesting and important right now! Please don't forget that what makes the Google office tools so hard to not use are the good tools for collaboration. That's what's needed!
cognitively accessible math@libreoffice Where do I send the money?
Carlos Solís
Benedetto Girgenti@libreoffice Exiting news! 🚀 Hope this will support Nextcloud as WOPI server or in a similar way!
karlggest@libreoffice
Why don't use CODE?
Why don't use CODE?
Olivier@libreoffice I thought that was what Collabora was... How is Libre Office online going to differ from it?
@dacmot @libreoffice That's a good question, especially when the page links to a page that links to Collabora wrt commercial support.
Qole@vwbusguy @dacmot @libreoffice
I'm curious now too, will this be connected to Collabora? Will they be funding any of this work? It's honestly a good idea, if they are, pushing some of this infrastructure upstream...
I'm curious now too, will this be connected to Collabora? Will they be funding any of this work? It's honestly a good idea, if they are, pushing some of this infrastructure upstream...
@vwbusguy @dacmot @libreoffice
Yeah, Collabora MUST be involved in this somehow. Their homepage states, "We are the leading contributor to bringing LibreOffice based technology to the browser, the largest code contributor to LibreOffice, and have the largest team of certified LibreOffice developers."
Yeah, Collabora MUST be involved in this somehow. Their homepage states, "We are the leading contributor to bringing LibreOffice based technology to the browser, the largest code contributor to LibreOffice, and have the largest team of certified LibreOffice developers."
WestFox35@libreoffice If this comes to Nextcloud it would be very interesting.
Scott TrakkerIt's already there: it's called Nextcloud Office and it's perfect. It's a rebranding of Collabora Office and I guess LibreOffice Online will be the same.
@Scott_Trakker @libreoffice Competition is always good
It's not a competition: the company Colllabora is one of the driving forces behind LibreOffice. They are mentioned a lot in the release notes.
Raul Pallol 🦇
CJ 
👨💻@libreoffice @btp Is there any plans for Online to have a decent API for interfacing with other applications?
i.e. if I’m hosting LibreOffice Online, would I be able to create and control a document from an external (web) application and direct a user there to edit?
If so, this might be a perfect solution for a project I’ve been working on! Interested to follow as this moves forward and see where it goes…
Lobaluna@libreoffice We are very pleased with this decision. Much needed and wanted solution!
Breizh@libreoffice I would prefer a plugin that make collaboration possible in the native app instead. Because running a whole office suite in the browser just to do that is a waste of performances, memory, is slow and will probably be limited in terms of features (like Collabora is today)).
Or both even, so we could chose depending on what we’re doing, and on which PC, eventually, but making the web version the only way to have collaborative edition is… painful.
zivi@breizh @libreoffice were collaborative features ever mentioned here? a web version is a good thing irregardless
@zaire @libreoffice Well, that’s the whole point, isn’t it. A web version is pointless otherwise, since it’s worse than the native version on everything.
I mean, from my point of view, even for this a web version is a bad idea, because that’s the worst way of implementing collaborative features, but at least there is a point in this case.
@breizh @libreoffice the web platform is universal. everyone has a web browser. if there’s a web version, you just open a url and are free to start using the software, no installation process, zero commitment; that has value, i think
@zaire @libreoffice But at what cost? Then you need to depends on someone that can install it, give up on privacy, and avoiding it need even more commitment. Installing software isn’t a big barrier, or at least, it shouldn’t.
The big companies, at the same time, made installing software harder and pushed their web version (eventually making it mandatory in some case).
That’s not because users wanted it, and we should fight it instead of following them.
Robert Nasarek
Chad McCullough@libreoffice Excellent news!
Paul@cmccullough @libreoffice Seconded...this looks like a really interesting project to follow.
MissConstrue
rhempel@libreoffice My Proxmox server eagerly awaits!
Elaine Baker@libreoffice how would this differ from collabora and nextcloud ? One thing which is needed is the ability to share a document publicly for comments but not for edits. NextCloud and Cryptpad don't offer that yet. It's the only feature that keeps me on google docs unfortunately.
Bill, organizer of stuff
James Creel@libreoffice I love me some LibreOffice. What an outstanding platform that just helps people and makes them happy! Have been a user for about a year now. Such a good product. C.f. FOSS, y'all.
MyViewSorry to interrupt the tech talkers but ... as a long time non tech just ordinary run of the mill common user who escaped from MS Word ... I sincerely hope you will not make it all too tech so we common folk can't just use it as a word processor ...
I have enough trouble now keeping pics/photos set out as I want them ... seems there's a bloody fairy in my computer that moves pics around when I'm not looking ...
And I don't want to save my stuff online, USB is good enough for me ...
@MyView @libreoffice
This is about building a free, open source replacement for online, cloud services like Google Docs, or Office 365, this shouldn't impact the desktop OpenOffice suite.
My kid, in university, uses Google Docs almost exclusively for everything, because you can share your documents and edit them collaboratively, in real time, with people from all over. It's kind of amazing, watching multiple people editing a document simultaneously...
This is about building a free, open source replacement for online, cloud services like Google Docs, or Office 365, this shouldn't impact the desktop OpenOffice suite.
My kid, in university, uses Google Docs almost exclusively for everything, because you can share your documents and edit them collaboratively, in real time, with people from all over. It's kind of amazing, watching multiple people editing a document simultaneously...
Thanks for the reply ...
I don't let anybody touch my documents ... takes me years sometimes to research the facts and I don't let anybody alter them ... especially as they came to me in the first place to find the facts ...
What they do with their family secrets after I hand over the PDF is up to them :)
Never heard of Google Docs and not going to let them or anybody else use my documents for their AI ...
I know they can steal it by seeing where I go and what I find ... but I'm not going to just hand it over ...
@MyView @libreoffice
A lot of people feel the way you do about Google, which is why this announcement is such a big deal. It means that LibreOffice is restarting the project that will let us set up our own online document editor, without having to go through Google.
And the nice thing about a browser-based office suite, even if you don't want to collaborate, is that you can edit your documents on any device, without having to make copies. You can update a document on your phone or laptop, and when you go home, your changes are all there on your home PC!
Not just Google ... I don't use any cloud services ... which is why I know when emails come through via Google's Firebaseapp telling me my Cloud is full so pay up, or that Norton found a virus ... I can block sender ... doesn't stop them though which is another reason Google is no longer my friend ..
I'm the old fashioned type with external hard drives and USBs ... many USBs ... and duplicates in case the house or garage burns down :)
Never have liked relying on others ... for anything :)
And as long as Libreoffice allows me to do my own thing ... I will continue to use ... and donate when I can.
Even with their few faults still better than MS ...
BlueWinds@libreoffice Sweet! I was looking for something like this last year, and will definitely give it a try when I get a chance!
ambroisie@libreoffice is there any comparison with Collabora online?