Absolutely hilarious that they advertise themselves as "privacy first", while demanding a phone number (with no alternative) to even create an account.
Notes:
* For something pitching itself as open source, the source is hard to find. And I couldn't find any source for the server components, though I admint the site is obtuse enough that I may have simply given up looking.
* I don't see any documentation on self-hosting so far.
* I don't see any documentation of their pricing for their hosted service.
This all combines to make it nigh-impossible to evaluate. I hope it turns into what the headline says it is, but I don't see a way to assess that just yet.
I'm glad that people are working on this, but not sure I get why this needs to be one unified suite of software. IMO, it would be more productive to focus on a single one of the apps and make that good before doing them all at once.
not having investigated this tool, I'll say that the key thing for 'open alternatives' is simplicity of hosting, + many tools have failed me in the past
thinking specifically of immich + simplenotes, which have complex docker compose stacks, and at least immich requires a lot of TLC to keep the backend in sync with the frontend. fail at this and your images will not sync.
(and I am not knocking it, I use it + love it)
these apps are in a sense featureful, with ML indexing and other search features, but in a sense just auth wrappers on file storage; hosting them they should, somehow, be simpler than it is
I tried to sign-up... the SMS code never arrived.
Only the source for the Drive component seems to be available...
This tool is made by the french OSS company Linagora, active in that space for more than 20 years.
They mostly likely have thousands of users running on corporate or state platforms so it's not a "one off project" supported by a couple individuals, it's an actual stack with probably a large dev team.
However, Linagora has been entangled in a legal battle for 10 years with former employees that founded BlueMind[0], a competing offer. Latest episode in the saga appears to be "back to square one" with the legal case coming back to a fresh start based on complex legal issues [1]
[0]https://www.bluemind.net/
[1]https://www.zdnet.fr/blogs/l-esprit-libre/blue-mind-linagora...