Nextcloud Hub 26 Spring: Built together, designed for the future

https://nextcloud.com/blog/nextcloud-hub26-spring/

62•doener•1h ago

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beepbooptheory•1h ago

Maybe I'm alone but nextcloud has gone from being kinda flaky and annoying to really great the past few years.

technothrasher•1h ago

I don't think I really push it, but I find it just right for self-hosting my calendar, contacts, photos, and files.

wolttam•1h ago

I'd agree that it has gotten better over time. I'm glad we have Nextcloud around.

theodric•1h ago

I always had terrible trouble keeping it (and before it, Owncloud) updated and in sync with available dependencies on my Debian host. A few years ago, when I built a new NAS, I installed a snap, and that's been the ticket. It's pretty close to flawless now.

lvales•53m ago

Yeah, I eventually gave up on self hosting Nextcloud because of incompatibilities with PHP(-FPM), iirc. They were always lagging behind and it became a hassle to mantain. I ended up replacing all the parts I used with other single purpose software, and it's been a better experience overall.

encom•42m ago

When I ran OwnCloud (on Debian), I installed from their APT repo, and one "apt upgrade" handled everything. It was nice and easy, and I didn't have any problems with it.

NextCloud uses its own updater* (which I don't like), and aside from some recent MariaDB snafu it's been very low maintenance.

  (*)sudo -u www-data php /var/www/nextcloud/updater/updater.phar

bigstrat2003•30m ago

I'm not a huge "run everything in a container" guy, but Nextcloud is one of those things I absolutely will always run in a container. It's too much of a beast for me to have any desire to try to manage package versions and fixing it if something breaks.

jaffa2•1h ago

Is nextcloud the good one and owncloud the inferior one?

FabCH•1h ago

I don’t know about owncloud, but I have been hosting a family Nextcloud instance for a little under two years and it works fine.

It’s boring. It works.

m00dy•1h ago

same here, great choice for a private family cloud.

maxloh•50m ago

Nextcloud is written in PHP, which doesn't sound scalable to me.

OwnCloud is written in Go but employs an open-core model. Some features are locked behind a proprietary paywall.

mbesto•38m ago

> Nextcloud is written in PHP, which doesn't sound scalable to me.

Lol what? Facebook (pre Hack), Tumblr, Wordpress, Etsy...

graemep•7m ago

Shared nothing is no scaleable?

encom•48m ago

ezst•1h ago

Upgraded yesterday, I only use a small amount of features (files, memories, calendar, tasks). It sucks that tasks isn't compatible yet (but I mostly use DAVx⁵/Tasks.org as front-end), and it sucks that the landing page still pulls close to 20MB or so, but besides that, nothing to report one way or another.

ntnsndr•1h ago

I now use Nextcloud both for a family server and an academic lab. It has become such a daily part of my life, and I am really grateful for it. I just wish the network effects were stronger so I could benefit more from the federated features, and people didn't think it is so weird to get a Nextcloud link.

Lab use: https://git.medlab.host/MEDLab/Handbook/src/branch/main/docs...

Personal use: https://nathanschneider.info/2026/06/toward-a-durable-writin...

blendergeek•1h ago

Nextcloud has the most confusing versioning of any software I have ever used.

Nextcloud Hub 26 is Nextcloud 34 and follows Nextcloud Hub 9 which is Nextcloud 33.

And I could be off on those exact numbers.

tda•1h ago

I run Nextcloud at home with 1.5TB of files and 2 users, on a reasonably sized server. It is painfully slow. Still better than OneDrive, but only just: synscing takes forever, never reaching a fraction of available bandwidth. Upload from my phone is flaky, often hangs and needs manual intervention. It is a battery drain. The whole experience with add-ons and the general UI feels like a 2010 PHP app.

I am grateful Nextcloud exists, but no app deserves a vibe coded Rust rewrite more than Nextcloud. Literally nothing to loose

chrneu•32m ago

This seems to be a really common issue with NextCloud. I'd say about 30% of installs seems to just..be slow? I've had this happen to me on a handful of installs, and i've had friends/collegues it's happened to.

I'm not aware of any "Fix" besides whiping your install(s) and trying again. Try not to use a backup if you can, as it can keep the slowness/lag across installs.

It's really annoying.

fundatus•47m ago

I love Nextcloud but I feel like they should really completely redo their UI. It just doesn't look like something from this decade.

bigstrat2003•33m ago

That is not a compelling reason to overhaul a UI (which is something that should rarely, if ever, be done). If it works and is pleasant to use, what it looks like is of no consequence.

emilbratt•10m ago

Wait, you don't feel so?

I have maintained a Nextcloud server for a small business for the last 6 years. I agree when I started using it early 2020 that the ui felt less modern, but after some updates down the road up until now it looks completely like it is from this era. Am I missing something? However, I never complained about the UI neither then nor now.

drnick1•43m ago

Nextcloud is great, I self-host an instance at home. I mostly use the calendar, address book, and file sharing with links a la Google Drive. It's probably heavier and slower than it should be for what it does, but it works.

Just like Home Assistant, it is a "must have" tool for self-hosters.

artgship•35m ago

Been using Nextcloud exclusively for probably 4 years now? Before that it was a mix of nextcloud + Google Drive. It works for me really well, I can grab my files through my vpn with any of my computers when I am not at home.

tapoxi•28m ago

If I want to buy a small NAS that just runs Nextcloud and has a copy of my Google Photos library - what do I go with?

I don't have a ton of space so something that fits in the media center.

jmathai•21m ago

If you’re going to run your own NAS then consider swapping Google Photos out with Immich.

I know it’s not the question you asked but I feel not enough people know about it as an option and it’s really as good as Google Photos.

bayindirh•17m ago

GMKTec G9. Four NVMe slots, plus some internal memory to deploy TrueNAS. It only has 12GB of RAM, but has two ethernet cards, acceptable cooling and performance and has a small footprint.

SSDs shall be single sided and gonna need heatsinks, but I believe it works well and is not tied to any manufacturer for anything.

If you want go all-out get ASUSTOR's Ryzen based systems. You can use the stock firmware or disable it without wiping it and deploy TrueNAS on it. It's a beast.

TrueNAS has containers and applications and VM support so you can run any service you want on it.

TiredOfLife•5m ago

Google photos will become one way sync only in august. You can upload to cloud, but no sync to pc.

geff82•18m ago

How is OpenCloud a serious competitor?

Diti•13m ago

Am I the only one who doesn’t trust Nextcloud because they use Vimeo instead of a privacy-respecting CDN to showcase videos of their project?

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