I really don't see the appeal nowdays, so many options out there, including collabora (which has the community version).

I really wanna see the way they'll do.

Cool..... But like, people know apps exist right? And networked storage? Why does everything gotta be a webapp... Feels like only a matter of time until my desktop calculator is running in Electron.

Some new EU funding in the background?

I'm quite happy with local apps, but I could see the appeal for self-hosting if the server would scale for the client (ie laptop on the desk vs mobile phone on the road)

How’s this project going to interact with Collibre Collabora (sorry!)?

My first gut reaction was "Neat, but no thank you" but the more I think about how many clients COULD be using a cloud hosted privacy respecting platform instead of 365, I quickly bit my lip.

I hope they're able to move toward a client first renderer instead of the image tile approach they used previously. That was kinda a network hog and cludgy to use.

OMG YES!!!

This makes me really happy because it'll make collaborating with friends on things a lot easier.

I was just looking if something like that exists yesterday, but got disappointed. Nice timing.

fuck yeah. I'll happily deploy this to my stack.

Fingers crossed this can be a viable replacement for Collabora Online with Nextcloud, which has been a nightmare.

That'll be nice to see. I like Collabora but haven't tried hosting it. Opening that up and LibreOffice up side by side with the tabbed interface, barely any different. Maybe LibreOffice exposes way more buttons in each tab so maybe more intimidating but it looks pretty good compared to what I remember when the tabbed interface was first made available. Looking forward to seeing this progress

Great!

I'd love to see libre office on my personal nextcloud instance. That would be an easy and effective "feature" for nextcloud which could be adopted by many business. They're already running Nextcloud, maybe, for the digital sovereign.

Anyway, thanks for your efforts!

Wasn't collabora trying to be this

As someone who is slowly moving off big tech, are there plugins or themes for these office suites that bring then more in line with modern UIs for office suites.

I hate Msoft and Google but the gsuite has a nice clean set up. Microsoft less so but still doesnt feel as unwieldly as open office. I was doing a doc last night and ended up getting the chrome flatpak and signing into docs.

I think Libre Office is fantastic and I'm glad to see the back of Microsoft. But I miss how useful mail-merge was and how limited it is in Libre. It's my only small complaint among so many cheers for Libre.

Awesome! 😁

I thought tools like OnlyOffice filled in that gap. Nice to see an alternative.

This should open it to being used collaboratively.
Then I can convince wherever I work, to use this instead of going with other MS stuff?

Why? Why anyone needs online version?

How long until someone uses a LibreOffice Online instance to drop a Google doc on someone?

LibreOffice Online: a fresh start

LibreOffice is a desktop application, but we get many requests for a web-based version of the suite that users can deploy on their own infrastructure. Several years ago, project members started to develop LibreOffice Online, but in 2022 the Board of Directors at The Document Foundation voted to freeze the project and put it in the “attic”, for reasons that have now been superseded.

Earlier this month, the current Board of Directors decided to revoke those votes to give new life to the project, as Eliane Domingos, chairperson, put it:

To start the process of freeing LibreOffice Online, and to start the journey that will lead to having an online version by the community and for the community.

Now the work begins. We plan to reopen the repository for LibreOffice Online at The Document Foundation for contributions, but provide warnings about the state of the repository until TDF’s team agrees that it’s safe and usable – while at the same time encourage the community to join in with code, technologies and other contributions that can be used to move forward. We will actively work with the community to identify how to foster LibreOffice Online, including its technological basis, QA and marketing.

Note that this doesn’t mean that TDF will host or provide enterprise support for LibreOffice Online – that’s beyond the scope of the foundation. For these things, users are strongly recommended to consult the commercial ecosystem around LibreOffice. But TDF wants to offer the technology for those who want to use, modify and share it.

We will post more soon about our plans, and ways to get involved. We look forward to a new future for LibreOffice Online!

I've heard some people are a bit salty about this because of Collabora and the work they've done, which may be a fair point.

FWIW, I've never gotten Collabora to work in a functional/usable way. I've tried it in Nextcloud, and tried to just host it all on it's own and it's never been what I'd call usable.

If LibreOffice can develop this in a way that's (relatively) easy to deploy and is actually usable, I'll be happy.

Cool!