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Does anyone else here use https://cryptpad.fr/ ?

I'm loving it so far- it's probably the best privacy focused g suite alternative I've found. It's easy enough to use that even the non-technical among us can use it

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[โ€“] moonpiedumplings@programming.dev 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Me and my team are planning to use it for the upcoming https://wrccdc.org/ competition.

During the regionals competition, we go to a physical location and are not allowed to bring our own electronics. In addition, there is a firewall with an allowlist, meaning we have to ask for stuff to be unblocked, or self host services we will want/need.

Crytpad is small enough that it can be deployed during competition without much fuss, and it allows for collaborative editing, which is useful for things like sharing passwords.

[โ€“] anon593839@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I haven't heard of that competition, but it looks really cool.

Outside of the competition, does your team self host cryptpad?

I ended up paying for a subscription- I wanted to support the development + it being E2E alleviates most of my concerns about storing info in the cloud.

Also, I'm honest with myself to know that cryptpad.fr probably has a better backup setup than my Proxmox mini PC + Synology combo ๐Ÿ˜…

[โ€“] moonpiedumplings@programming.dev 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Outside of the competition, does your team self host cryptpad?

Not yet :(

We use a service called Box, in combination with Microsoft office online, and it sucks.

[โ€“] anon593839@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

No, box is it's own cloud storage platform, like drive. But it doean't have it's own alternative to google docs/sheets/etc, sp it integrates the web versions of microsoft word/excel/etc.

[โ€“] fxomt@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 week ago

Good luck with the competition!

[โ€“] fxomt@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 week ago

I mainly use offline tools like onlyoffice, but i love cryptpad. It's the best office suite for privacy. Highly recommend.

[โ€“] Ulrich@feddit.org 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It's fine but it's really slow and basic.

[โ€“] anon593839@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I actually haven't found it that slow, but I've also kept my expectations low. I'm willing to allow some slowness in the initial document load time if it means I get some privacy.

[โ€“] Ulrich@feddit.org 2 points 1 week ago (2 children)

It takes like 10 seconds to open a document

[โ€“] anon593839@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

I haven't had it take that long, but I have noticed that loading time varies between mobile and desktop. Not surprisingly, the more powerful device loads the document faster

Edit: You're right- it takes like 10 seconds on my phone. I decided to time it

[โ€“] lambalicious@lemmy.sdf.org -1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Wow! Incredible! Ten whole seconds?

Just enough time for me consider thinking if I go for a coffee in the meantime.

[โ€“] Ulrich@feddit.org 2 points 6 days ago

If you like waiting around for things, that's your prerogative. It's not my preference.