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Hey friends. I finally fired nextcloud - and so should you.

edit: wow. reddit banned me for posting a link to my (completely unmonitezed, unproductized) blog in multiple r/selfhosted threads. I bet it's related to this lemmy link

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[–] hietsu@sopuli.xyz 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I’d be more interested in finding a project that is not folder structure based like all these tend to be, but instead the files would be managed by metadata/attributes (and of course based on these you could still present the files in a classic folder structure when needed). So more of a database approach like in many Document Management systems, f.ex. M-Files.

[–] nightrider@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

After extensive looking the only selfhosted one that I can find that fits the bill is Seafile (latest update) which has a metadata based file storage function. Bear in mind setting up docker compose is a PITA but once you get it working (subject to license restriction - only 3 on free 'pro' tier) it works great.

Only other option that hits the same is the software I'm trying to replace: SharePoint (shudder). As much as Microsoft sucks the document libraries with columns are blooming powerful when combined with power automate. Good luck hunting!