Announcing Nextcloud Hub 3 - Brand New Design and Photos 2.0 with Editor and AI

Daphne · October 8, 2022, 11:05am

Thanks a lot for your sweet message! As Frank said in the keynote, it’s a misconception that AI has such a large performance impact. Bottom line the performance improved in this release in a significant and noticeable way. We design for any instance scale. But of course it’s a bit of a layered question, because if one is responsible for an instance of so many users one should also get a support contract so the team can help fast in case of trouble

or maybe I’m opinionated as I manage our support team haha!

chris.ingenhaag · October 8, 2022, 2:46pm

Oh, I’m sorry. Something was wrong and I saw Nextcloud photos app loading original 6MB photos. Now it works as expected. Sorry for confusing.

Tasagore · October 8, 2022, 5:52pm

Sorry Daphne, I have bad news about this, the performance (RC3) is very poor compared with NC24. For example, I need >3 minutes just to enter then new mail app (about 15 seconds with the old one, and sincerely I use Rainloop in production because is much faster). The login to NC is also noticeable slower. Etc.

The new theme is very nice but for example I need to reload the page one or two times just to get all the icons for files and folders (in files app).

I love the new look&feel but…I’ve downgraded to NC24 since NC25 for me has a very poor performance, don’t know if there is some about my installation, will try the next RC.

tim.s · October 10, 2022, 11:06am

It’s all great news, but somehow we don’t find many of the announced features. We have Nextcloud 25.0.0 RC3 with Contacts 5.0.0-rc1 and Talk 15.0.0-rc.3 installed, but somehow the following features are nowhere to find:

Talk: Set messages to expire
Talk: Menu button to create poll
Contacts: Button to show the organisational chart

Anyone aware what we’re doing wrong/missing to see?

marapavelka · October 10, 2022, 1:34pm

I’m using Nextcloud AIO in the Docker. What tag should I use to test Hub 3, please?

bb77 · October 10, 2022, 1:47pm

https://github.com/nextcloud/all-in-one#how-to-switch-the-channel

But I wouldn’t recommend doing this on your main production instance.

marapavelka · October 10, 2022, 2:10pm

I have already tried the beta channel, but I still have NC 24.0.6. This instance is for testing purposes only.

SmallOne · October 10, 2022, 2:15pm

They are there. THe org chart might now be visible because the contacts might not have a Manager added on the contact card. Once you do you should see this:

Screenshot from 2022-10-10 16-13-46

Ths stuff in talk should be visible as soon as you have talk 15rc installed:

Screenshot from 2022-10-10 16-13-00

szaimen · October 10, 2022, 2:37pm

AIO does not offer a way to test Beta or RC versions of Nextcloud.

Twilek · October 10, 2022, 2:56pm

I think there is no official docker image with the beta version. If you install the beta on a hosted service you will get Hub 3 but not Photos 2.0 yet.

bb77 · October 10, 2022, 3:28pm

If you want to test beta releases I would recommend to setup a dedicated VM for that purpose and do a manual installation. There are plenty of guides out there on how to setup a Nextcloud server manually, like for example this one Build an Awesome Nextcloud Server (Updated for Ubuntu 22.04!) – Learn Linux TV

just · October 10, 2022, 3:58pm

Message expiration has been around for some time. All those things are in the menu afaik.

SmallOne · October 10, 2022, 4:45pm

It’s in the settings for the room/channel. And it’s new for talk 15

tim.s · October 11, 2022, 1:59pm

Hi @SmallOne, indeed you led me one step in the right direction, but still the issue is not solved: I’m now finding the two TALK options, but only with an admin account. Regular Nextcloud users don’t see “create poll” and “message expiration”.

SysKeeper · October 11, 2022, 2:45pm

Both options are not available in 1-to-1-conversations. Did you test in 1-1 or in group conversations?

SmallOne · October 11, 2022, 3:05pm

Expire is in the settings for 1-1 chats

Polls are for group chats

They should be visible on the web and on the 15 rc clients

SysKeeper · October 11, 2022, 3:38pm

Pretty sure it shouldn’t be there … I just looked again and it’s only available for group conversations (web and talk-ios). Where do you see that option for 1-1?

just · October 11, 2022, 3:55pm

@SysKeeper @tim.s Would you mind sharing some screenshots since you are having difficulty with finding these options.

SysKeeper · October 11, 2022, 4:05pm

Thank you - I can find that option, but it is disabled in code for 1-1 conversations, so I’m wondering @SmallOne sees

SmallOne · October 11, 2022, 6:39pm

Android 15 rc3 … It might be a bug in the android app … After checking with my browser on the computer it is not there