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[–] blah3166@piefed.social 42 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (3 children)

Check out CryptPad.org, it's:

  • Open Source; so it can't be taken away from you should the org cease to exist.
  • Self-hostable; although you can use or pay to use other people's instances.
  • Collaborative; with real-time editing like Google docs
  • Federated; so you can collaborate with others whether you're using a self-hosted instance or using any other server.
  • End-to-end encrypted: The server admins can't see any of your data.

Only downsides so far is that the UX is a bit slow when first loading documents and there are no mobile apps.

EDIT: Forgot to add the important par, they recently added support for OnlyOffice in the browser, which to me, was a pretty big deal.

[–] dhruv3006@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago

This one is pretty great!

[–] vogi@piefed.social 1 points 3 months ago

Love Cryptpad, but am I the only one for whom the loading indicator gives a bad flashback to early js framework web development where every website was 16 times the initial load time, 4 times the overall size and just more buggy. Website SPA or not have rarely a good reason to have a loading indicator for the initial load the browser already does that.

[–] jlow@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 3 months ago

Wth, I never knew Cryptpad does sheets/forms, that's so cool!