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Is anyone here using NextCloud for extended family chat/photo/whatever?

Thoughts?

EDIT: Primary needs are a fall-off-log easy chat and photo sharing system in one app that is available on apple and android.

Current family chat is sms/rcs that inexplicably randomly splits the group chat into subgroups and confuses everyone. Investigated Matrix already and it's too fragile / complicated to try moving them to.

No photo editing needed, no voice/video chats, no shared calendars etc. I'm now thinking next cloud is too heavy for this.

EDIT 2: Found a list of things to investigate github.com/itsbryanman/selfhostedFamily?tab=readme-ov-file

#SelfHosting #familynetwork
GitHub - itsbryanman/selfhostedFamily: collection of family oriented self hosted apps/services

collection of family oriented self hosted apps/services - itsbryanman/selfhostedFamily

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Show threadartlog1d ago
@scuttlebutt

Our family cloud to share all documents related to house car loan and for children studies is a self hosted nextcloud.
Some other tools too but nextcloud is really the only one to be daily used.
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@artlog I should have stated my current needs are for adults who are currently struggling with the mess that mixed apple/android users have with sms/rcs chats and some shared photo stuff would be nice. Everything else after that would be a bonus.

I've looked at matrix etc and it's all too flakey and complicated for non technical people to use reliably.
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@scuttlebutt

For what experienced with communication and social network for family relatives ( brothers sisters parents ... ) it did just fail.
Moving everybody to the same tool is just as difficult in a family than it is outside. It is a social matter requiring social skills, i fear i don't have those...
Nextcloud talk i use daily works with at work and in local associations but couldn't convince my relatives to use ir, even with mobile apps that are working well on any device.
For family... just look like everybody claim to need a shared tool but really want to keep everything private, self hosting family secrets...