Yep IRC channel is dead as well. I spent quite a bit of time there, over two days, asking the same question and got no answer. All that time I only saw one other question, which was also left unanswered.
So in conclusion:
- Forum is dead
- IRC channel is dead
- Documentation is incomplete or inexistent for certain features
That doesn’t make it easy to build anything for Nextcloud. There’s not much to do about the inexistent dev community I guess, but maybe the documentation could at least be completed.
There’s a lot of guessing work at the moment as each doc page only superficially describes each topic, and seems to assume the reader already knows a lot about the inner working of Nextcloud.
That’s me when building stuff for Nextcloud: