I love NextCloud and am trying to bring as many new users as possible on board! This form app used to be a compelling feature, with a huge potential. Now, it is just an useless disappointment.
Is there any intent to fix it or phase it out? I would help if I could…
Best to you all.
(N.B. “nextcloud forms” is way more interesting than " nextcloud polls", which seems to keep being adequately maintained and updated)
that would be great because it is an application that could help us do without google form, if it was improved it is an application as important as mail, contact or other
as far as i know it was a Google Summer of Code project (but I might be wrong),
that might explain why the original developers are not following up on this.
As always, probably the best way to keep this up is if commercial users (with nextcloud subscription) say that they need this, so it might become an official nextcloud app developed by core team. Or we do bountysource. Its about money (=time) in the end.
another idea is to find universities/university professors that are willing to do projects in their courses about this – anyone got contacts?
It is like so often, someone needs and uses an app. The original developer has no more time or desire. The users are not happy that the app is no longer maintained.
The only thing that helps:
Start coding the app yourself or become
Enterprise user and continue the app by payment.
This is the user’s perspective and I fully understand the view.
From my perspective, no fork is necessary.
Best is to communicate in advance what you want to do, start coding and create pull requests after consultation.
We need to help ourselves So start contributing if possible.
but what if there’s noone to merge any pull request anymore? and i got the impression that the students have left the project after finishing it successfully. so i came up with the forking-idea
@alexanderdd I’m working on a public grant application to finance this development among others. It will yet take a few months if and before it succeeds.
I seriously think someone should at least try to fix the current app to make it usable. Otherwise, the momentum is likely to get lost…
This form app has such a huge potential within the NextCloud environment. I’m even suprised that we have to fight to raise awareness on the matter!
I can’t contribute as a developer (and it wouldn’t be where I could bring the most added value) but am a firm advocate of NextCloud (blessed be the license chosen!) and other FOSSs in society (NGOs, public and private sectors, etc.).
hello, no it’s not that we are not satisfied or dissatisfied, but rather that seeing us the potential of this appliction, I have been using it since these beginnings and I am afraid of seeing it go into oblivion, while it is sincerely a real competitor to google form …
and we would like to make it known and attract interested people who could help improve this little gold nugget.
I’ve never used the Forms app, which perhaps makes me a bad candidate, but I’m a heavy and longtime NextCloud user, and I’ve been looking for the next FOSS project. I wouldn’t be opposed to forking it and carrying it forward. I’ll give it a closer look.
I don’t see how the Nextcloud model will continue by developing these nextcloud specific apps instead of integrating other open source software into it. It would be better to integrate the FOSS Tellform into nextcloud then trying to update these apps that don’t receive financial or developer support. Building a closed ecosystem will have the same effect as using proprietary software.
@rakekniven I don’t mind having a third FOSS being integrated to NextCloud for form functionalities.
The thing is that a form app seems a key feature for a fully-developped collaborative online hub (survey, opinions, preferences, suggestions, membership applications, etc.). At this stage, the available app for this is not only basic, but essentially useless; this is a real issue for user’s general satisfaction.
If there was a more elaborated strategy for form functionalities (ex. integration of a third FOSS [Drupal for instance]), I would be very pleased. I however believe we should go step-by-step on this. Overachievement may discourage simple and required problem-solving steps.
I’m finishing the funding application next week, which should compromise some Drupal/NextCloud developments. However, it will take some time before any thing substantial emerges (months at best).
It yet seems that the app is now being on the radar again - thanks to our stir? Do not hesitate to keep the topic alive and spread it on other forums [Reddit?] (then feel free to share the URLs if you do)!
So start contributing if possible.