Ek-Hou-Van-BraaiEuro-Office, a good fork of highly criticized ONLYOFFICE
I found that someone from Europe just forked ONLYOFFICE.
What are your thoughts on this? What document server do you run/use?
Cassawhy not libreoffice? 🤔
poVoqIt is explained in the readme linked in the OP.
tl;dr: they were using it before, but the codebase is old and hard to maintain and also doesn’t scale well in an online cloud office context.
Personally I have been using both (ONLYOFFICE and Collabora Office), and I can see why people prefer the former, even though for small personal use the latter is also ok.
PennomiI have also tried both and ONLYOFFICE was better for my use case. It seems much better maintained.
The Stoned HackerTell me then why it took years for them to add a horizontal rule (literally just a horizontal line). I’m not kidding, it was only added in the last few weeks. How do I know? I commented on the github issue about like 3 or 4 years ago (the issue was already multiple years old) and have been getting notifications every time someone asks for it. And finally like a week or two ago I finally got the notification that it was added.
Libre Office is maintained by The Document Foundation which is based in Germany. So from a governance point of view it’s already a European hosted open source project.
Also for online collaboration platforms, Libre Office isn’t really a good option. It is an old, sprawling codebase which doesn’t lend itself to being ported to being a server based collaborative platform. It has actually been done but hasn’t flourished, hence alternatives like OnlyOffice.