Some new EU funding in the background?

I'm quite happy with local apps, but I could see the appeal for self-hosting if the server would scale for the client (ie laptop on the desk vs mobile phone on the road)

How’s this project going to interact with Collibre Collabora (sorry!)?

My first gut reaction was "Neat, but no thank you" but the more I think about how many clients COULD be using a cloud hosted privacy respecting platform instead of 365, I quickly bit my lip.

I hope they're able to move toward a client first renderer instead of the image tile approach they used previously. That was kinda a network hog and cludgy to use.

OMG YES!!!

This makes me really happy because it'll make collaborating with friends on things a lot easier.

I was just looking if something like that exists yesterday, but got disappointed. Nice timing.

Fingers crossed this can be a viable replacement for Collabora Online with Nextcloud, which has been a nightmare.

fuck yeah. I'll happily deploy this to my stack.

As someone who is slowly moving off big tech, are there plugins or themes for these office suites that bring then more in line with modern UIs for office suites.

I hate Msoft and Google but the gsuite has a nice clean set up. Microsoft less so but still doesnt feel as unwieldly as open office. I was doing a doc last night and ended up getting the chrome flatpak and signing into docs.

Great!

I'd love to see libre office on my personal nextcloud instance. That would be an easy and effective "feature" for nextcloud which could be adopted by many business. They're already running Nextcloud, maybe, for the digital sovereign.

Anyway, thanks for your efforts!

That'll be nice to see. I like Collabora but haven't tried hosting it. Opening that up and LibreOffice up side by side with the tabbed interface, barely any different. Maybe LibreOffice exposes way more buttons in each tab so maybe more intimidating but it looks pretty good compared to what I remember when the tabbed interface was first made available. Looking forward to seeing this progress

Wasn't collabora trying to be this

Awesome! 😁

I think Libre Office is fantastic and I'm glad to see the back of Microsoft. But I miss how useful mail-merge was and how limited it is in Libre. It's my only small complaint among so many cheers for Libre.

I thought tools like OnlyOffice filled in that gap. Nice to see an alternative.