FYI: I've been receiving phishing emails disguised to look like Roundcube account related info lately. Looks like scammers have caught onto this news. Keep safe.
I feel like Nextcloud is going to become Google one day, but I have nothing to back that up other than they just keep adding more and more capabilities
As long as they remain open source I see no problem with that.
I use both in my server and they're both great products, with the plus that you don't have to deal with any of Google's shitty practices.
Adding a managed services option for NextCloud would be smart. Individual instances that don't share anything, managed by NextCloud and deployable on multiple cloud infrastructures.
Nextcloud mail is unusably slow AND saves every single email in the database with no pruning, for the joy of a sysadmin that will see the database growing growing growing (from my experience a couple years ago, didn’t try extensively recently)
Roundcube instead is fast and easy to install but much limited. Everything is a PHP plugin developed by someone else who might abandon it at any time and I don’t really like that. Default install is barebones and has less features than outlook express on windows 98.
Almost a decade ago they did a crowdfunding to rewrite it, but it was abandoned , latest commits here https://github.com/roundcube-next
I've been looking for a round cube replacement for years and can't find one. It's the only mature and still relatively supported FOSS web-based solution I've found that fits my requirements.
I'm praying that nothing changes but fully expect it to. I'm going to maintain a fork just in case decided to pull an Audacity.
Awesome! I enjoyed using Roundcube when I once used a free hosting service many years ago.
A free open source solution to security will help drive adoption, and have people push back against the big players from artificially butting out small independents from the little club Google and Microsoft and a few others have made for themselves.
If anything, I feel like Nextcloud Mail is the thing that's going to end up being killed, not Roundcube. Nextcloud doesn't exactly seem like a company that would buy a superior product just to kill it off.