Comments on: Google vs. Nextcloud: File Uploads Broken, Competition in Jeopardy

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 01 Jun 2025 12:05:11 +0000

Good news for Nextcloud, but all the other small open source projects with no voice will remain at Google’s mercy.
Nextcloud was too big to be silenced, so Google decided to throw it a bone to keep up appearances while continuing to crush the smaller players. Business as usual.

By: Bobby Borisov

Bobby Borisov — Fri, 16 May 2025 09:53:03 +0000

In reply to Gino. Thanks for the info, Gino! I’ve updated the news accordingly.

By: Gino

Gino — Fri, 16 May 2025 07:11:46 +0000

from nextcloud page, yesterday

Dear users,

Good news. This morning, May 15, Google reached out to us and offered to restore the permission, which will give our users back the functionality that was lost.

We are preparing a test release first (expected tonight) and a final update with all functionality restored. If no issues occur, the update will hopefully be out early next week!

Thanks to your continued support 💙

Sincerely, the Nextcloud team

This update was posted on May 15, 2:50 pm CET (original post below)

By: The Dude

The Dude — Thu, 15 May 2025 23:47:46 +0000

Nextcloud should make a small installer program and upload it to Google Play. Then when users download it, it goes to their servers or F-Droid to download the regular app. Finally, the install program can run the regular app if they want. If the installer goes against the store rules, then just provide a URL to download the regular app. I don’t use Nextcloud. But its clearly bullsh*t that they have different rules for others than they have for themselves.

By: Gino

Gino — Thu, 15 May 2025 15:12:36 +0000

“…F-Droid isn’t a practical workaround for most.”
I don’t think it’s a problem installing from f-droid or directly from nextcloud’s site, for someone who wants a software like nextcloud