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France and Germany, in joint collaboration, have developed a Google Docs alternative - and its awesome! (Netherlands are currently onboarded) (mastodon.social)

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 16 hours ago (11 children)

Is this just for EU citisens or can Americans like me use it?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 hours ago

Can the UK get some of that?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 16 hours ago

It's just for the French civil service, right?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 18 hours ago

No America's club

[–] [email protected] 12 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago)

So FramaSoft is not a thing ?? It's French

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 day ago (11 children)

Pretty good project, but is it the future to have mainly web apps?

[–] [email protected] 46 points 1 day ago

Bro has been sleeping under a rock for the past 10 years.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It’s definitely been the direction of travel for the last several years. Not because the products are better, but because it’s easier to develop for just the browser than for Mac, Windows, and Linux.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

it’s easier to develop for just the browser than for Mac, Windows, and Linux.

They also work on android and IOS. You are also not dependent on the different toolkits. Also it is so much more performant.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 19 hours ago

They also work on android and IOS.

I can imagine it'll be a 160 MB app that loads the website in a webview, like it usually is

[–] [email protected] 7 points 18 hours ago (3 children)

For offline editing there's already LibreOffice

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[–] [email protected] 119 points 1 day ago (12 children)

Just checked the part about self-hosting. While it's probably possible to handle things with a less heavy approach, their only "easy to use" example right now is to have a full-blown kubernetes cluster at hand or run locally in the source directory. That's a bit much.

[–] [email protected] 42 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

In the README there's also instructions for Docker Compose, although it's quite the compose file, with SIXTEEN containers defined. Not something I'd want to self-host.

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