 Hi and welcome back to another video for this one I sat down with our next lot co-founder and director of marketing just portrayed and we went over some of the most asked questions about next lot Hope you enjoy Yes, thank you so much for joining us My pleasure we got lots of Positive comments on the last video if you haven't checked it out yet Make sure to watch it links in the description below among all the other links of stuff that we're gonna talk about today in skew and a video Most of the comments were from people who were glad and happy that next conference is coming back and we got one by Yonashim, I think is his name He is very happy to hear about the conference and I hope we are giving out next lot shirts. He's running low on doors Yeah, well, I think our stock is actually fairly low but we have some ideas of Yeah getting away for people to get t-shirts because well with the whole pandemic We've had of course no for a while and we always tell people I've come to an event meet us But of course, that's well most of the events we do are in Europe and that's already limiting You know, it's not feasible for everybody to just fly to Europe to get an extra t-shirt So yeah, we want to have something in place where people can get you know some nice merch if they want to Yeah, that's coming. What's the space most of us coming? Also loosely connected to the conference Jeffrey is asking can mobile app developers join the party or a separate session for apps like Let's power. I believe that's about the app developer contest that we're running for conference. Ah Yes, if mobile apps. Yeah, I think I might even have replied on social media at some point to a question about that Absolutely mobile apps are definitely included Yeah, I mean if you're building a mobile app for next clouds You know something. I don't know an iOS app for deck or something or please do that Yes, yeah, I do love that with the new feature. We're not getting the deck cards as a widget But if it's still open in the browser at the moment, but yes I'd have just take we even updated the blog poster for that link below Then sticking kind of with apps and getting to the mobile client Someone asked are there any plans on fixing background auto upload for iris currently you have to keep the app open to upload Doesn't start in the background automatically. I believe that's a platform limitation. We have at the moment Yes, unfortunately, it used to be possible to upload So basically the app needs to be woken up by iOS, right? And I was only has a couple of very restrictive reasons why it wakes up an app Used to be that one of the reasons was a new photo was taken and then you could then immediately upload that photo and Apple photos Can also do that because Apple makes that still available But only for apples like iCloud External apps like ours can no longer be triggered on the upload of a photo now We made it work around for that, which is very dirty Which is if you give an excellent gps permissions whenever your location changes The app gets woken up and it'll check if there are new photos and upload them It's of course an ugly work around and Yeah, it takes getting GPS updates with user more power than only triggering on photos But this is just it's Apple's decision. There's not much we can do I Personally have turned this on because at least you don't need to open the app It will work by itself Because well, I don't know about you, but I do regularly remove location So at least the app gets regularly woken up. Yeah, but yeah, this this is as good as we could make it. It's if somebody Knows a better solution for this like our iOS developers will be very happy to hear it I know that our developers spent quite some time trying to come up with something better This is really the best we could come up with So if somebody knows an API call or a trick or something document ideally document right We don't want to break any Apple rules because they were out of the app store and you know, we are not Big company that can strong arm Apple into letting us back in if they don't want us we are out So it needs to be like allowed by Apple and that's probably Yeah, I don't think it's possible because they are very strict on these things Kevin did you ask if there are any improvements planned for our next load client app on Android? Because at the moment to get calendar and contacts and we acquire a third-party app. Do we have any news on that? Yeah, so about The web dev and the sync calendar contacts without apps like dev x5. So this is on Android Android doesn't have native dev Call Dev and Cardiff support. You need a third-party app for that Made by our our friends from Dovex Yeah, we haven't built that feature in simply because it's really a ton of work and Well, there is already a company that makes that It's open source. If you really can't afford paying for it, you can install dev droid from the the free store Help me out Marius. What's the name of this free Android free droid? Yes. No. No, you mean the store that would be after all the Yes Yeah, and like sure we could fork their code and put it into the next app and basically Just harm another open source project. I don't think that's really cool So we don't really want to do that and then we have to maintain it too So, yeah, we we don't really have plans to do that. I think it's Yeah, I think it's okay that you have to install the app to be honest And we we integrated it already made it a lot easier. So if the app is installed dev droid All you need to do is go to the settings in x cloud and just say like, you know connect calendar connect contacts and then next up will talk to the dev droid app and To the duff x5 app and Set it up for you. So We wouldn't make it much more user friendly Other than that you wouldn't have to install that our app, but it would otherwise work exactly the same So it's a long story stored. But yeah, we made it as usual friendly as we could make it Without harming another nice open source project Next up Islamic audio book central on YouTube asked it would be great if you could sync your channel over to Odyssey It literally just takes a few clicks peer tube may also be worth considering especially as you're promoting decentralization That's a very good point I'm sure just has also a few thoughts on that at the moment We have like just the already existing and bigger reach already on YouTube. So we will keep doing that as well But we might explore other options, I believe So this is talking about like the the video That we do the videos we do. Yes, I suppose. Yeah, no, I agree with you It would be nice of course to be in these more decentralized platforms. Absolutely I think we will put in the effort there, but of course Well, we also have to go to the people where they are So that that wouldn't replace what we currently are doing need All right, then we have a few questions and comments about next load talk Yank on Twitter says is next load talk independent from the next load push middleman or not I use I use talk from the beginning version 12 interesting service at work. Thank you, Yanko I believe he's asking about the push service we use for notification Is that similar to our clients a client push or is that something independent? So next up talk has like the high-performance backend which well, you don't need strictly And it can do indeed push notifications and the push notifications They work via a server that we are running. So because for push notifications, you need to use the Android and iOS services. So somebody needs to be running that server and we run a free server For home users for that Next up talk The app uses that I'm sure but the way we use push notifications next out is that the only Notification that is sent via these networks is hey, there is an update And then the application will pull from the server to get the content of the update So we were it's independent in the sense that we're not sending the actual notification However, if you wouldn't want to use the service You would need to pull so you need to check in every minute or every 30 seconds to see if there's an update Of course on both Android and iOS your Apple simply not keep running the whole time so that can be tricky There are some work around for that, but this is really quite a Yeah, big thing So I Yeah, I hope this answers the question we have some things I think some work has been done to be independent from the iOS and Android Push services I don't think that the apps would work without that at least they wouldn't give you timely notifications. Of course you can use the app I'm sure it'll function just fine. It's just you wouldn't get notified when a new method comes in It would have to be for example in a chat room to get the new messages because that doesn't use push I believe if you're in a chat room and talk it has a constant connection with the server And you will get a notification or the message to come in right away. You just wouldn't get a notification on your You know locks ring for example, right? So so next I talk is independent in that regard. It doesn't use the push notifications For these kind of things I hope that answers the question I think it does you should probably highlight as well that how it's set up at the moment and the default behavior Is that we are only like telling your your app that it should talk to your server and the actual content of that preview Or whatever text being submitted is not going through us at all But then we've got a bunch of questions regarding next lot running in containers The question that I might come on to cover is one that we get like with pretty much every release Which is like when is this becoming available on Docker? When can I update whereas that stuff coming from Maybe you can explain a bit how that process works Yes, so there are a couple of ways indeed you can use to run next lot. We have course the zip file completely manual We introduced all in one Docker a while ago And from next out gay behind like from the company and as part of the release process. That's it So of course we have some some images and things for customers But we only make a zip file and since a while we make the all-in-one Docker image and both of these are ready on the day of release Now we tell our community who builds other things like for example the next lot docker image a community docker image the snap Yeah, there are images for for other platforms. We tell them When the release is et cetera, but it is otherwise up to them to update, you know, their their their tools And I Yeah, I can't really tell you when that happens because it really depends on when you know the the volunteers have time to to update You know the docker image to test Et cetera and this this really varies enormously some of them are very quick Others spend a long time testing to make sure that nothing breaks For example the snap as from what I can tell incredibly reliable. I've literally never seen somebody say like hey You know the snap broke for everybody or something like that that as far as I know never happened and I mean we have Tens of thousands of servers are running the snap so Yeah It it's it's really something out of our control basically Right, we also got since you already mentioned next lot. Yeah, all in one container also lots of love for that Among social media and not only the YouTube comments and also my personally huge fan of just the other week updated my local Raspberry Pi setup to something running up on Linode and I used the all-in-one container for that I was literally up and running in like 10 minutes plus when the DNS record changed to point my URL at it So that was really fun Also another container question asked by server tech. Is there any way to change default storage path for next lot docker container? That's one I can answer because I did that the other day when I was setting up my my own one container That's on the AIO guitar page and on the official docker repository store page or front page for that as well We'll link to that then another question. We've been asked regarding more of a privacy of all topic is What's the difference between run drive and next load they looked at the same at first site Well, there are there are many answers to that I'm glad to hear yes, but I'm glad to hear that they look like the same I mean this is because in the end there aren't that many differences other than the fact that one of them Means losing control of your data and the other one is not I mean the main difference between one drive and next out is that with one drive there is one place One company that takes full control of your data They can make all kinds of promises, but of course in the many countries where they're active if they get a legal note in Let's say China or in the US. That says hand over data from this user And they don't do it. They will get big fines and have people go to jail So they will hand over the data with next clouds. We cannot access your data We don't control it. You have to decide yourself where to host it You can host it on the server yourself or with a company in your country that you trust and nobody can take Get at your data Unless they come to you or whoever you've decided that you trust to host your data and that is the main difference Of course, it has other benefits. For example, if Microsoft tells older customers or Google Let's say Google decides that from now on you have to pay for Google Drive Twice as much as what you pay today or maybe they decide to shut down Google Photos or Microsoft decides that they're not making enough money You have a product and they shut it down Then you can try to extract your data Maybe you will then be able to get some of that data out But like with files for example, yes, you can download your files You cannot download Or maybe you can but you can't import them anywhere else The comments, the people that are in your files or the history, the activities, the versions If you shared those files with other people, those links will no longer work If you shared them in a chat room somewhere They will no longer be there. If you attach them to a task in a project management tool, they disappear So all this data on top of the files themselves disappears And well, if Microsoft One drives shuts down or if you move away from it, there's no other place where you can import whatever data you can export So even if you can export the comments and all the other data, there's nowhere else where you could import it With NextLoud, of course, you can not only export your entire NextLoud If your hosting provider decides to shut down or get bought and you don't trust them anymore or anything else You will then also be able to import all that data And if you were running and hosting on your own URL and you switch provider and you change the DNS Then all the public links will still work All the shares that you did with other people still work like everything is back So not only are you in control, but you also have the ability to move from one place to another With the big players like Microsoft and Google and Apple Sure, you can export some of the data And even if you can export everything, there's just no way to import it anywhere else Think of teams or your chats You can export them Probably, I guess, Microsoft offers an export function because they legally have to Thanks to the EU and countries pushing on that But they don't offer an import option, there's nowhere where you can then import it again You can't go from Microsoft Teams to Slack or the other way around, you're stuck So with NextLoud, that's the difference between OneDrive and NextLoud And all the others in NextLoud, you can go from one NextLoud server to another At any hosting provider you want, you have that freedom, you have that control Thank you very much for watching If we didn't answer your questions, don't worry We recorded for over an hour, so there's a part 2 coming of this But please keep asking questions down below in the comments and let us know what you think Thank you very much for watching and we'll see you in the next one Bye