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I've been using News for Nextcloud for the past year or so and love it. But it recently broke (refuses to pull any feeds) and reading the github issues... that app ain't gonna last much longer.

Briefly looked at the awesome selfhosting page and going to do a read through of those when my brain is a bit more sane. But any suggestions? My main requirement is that I need to have multiple android devices able to connect and sync even while off network (I can handle the anxiety that comes from tunnels).

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[-] NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I'm on the alpha and it still won't update any of my feeds. And going through the github issues it is basically summed up as "We will do another stable release once we have a frontend developer" which is basically never. So, at best, it will work until it doesn't and then I have to fix it myself yet again and... yeah.

And if my choice is to run an older version of nextcloud to support one app? Hell no.

[-] SMillerNL@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

As the maintainer of the app: Seeing how the alpha status doesn’t have anything to do with the import or API, your lack of updates in the feeds probably has another reason than the 25.x release.

[-] sk@hub.utsukta.org 1 points 2 years ago

@NuXCOM_90Percent thats strange. i've been on alpha for a while and it is working and improving with every release.

[-] NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip 0 points 2 years ago

Yeah. This isn't the first time the news app and the core nextcloud updates have fought each other in weird and mysterious ways (for me or others). I forget how I solved it last time (I think it was a similar case of needing to manually update to bleeding edge and then tweak things) but... I just don't care anymore.

I don't know who is right or wrong in how nextcloud is maintained (my instinct is the nextcloud devs because... have you seen nextcloud? but also, most apps don't have this recurring problem). But at this point, the benefits I get out of it are largely gone. And when so many issues boil down to "We need more people and resources to maintain this", it kind of feels like getting off the train BEFORE it crashes rather than after.

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