So. I get up this morning to see loads of alerts on my Android 'phone from the #Nextcloud app, advising me of the 100s of files that have been synced to my phone, and of the 100s more that failed to sync. Alongside those alerts were alerts of how my phone is running out of storage and how I've vastly exceeded my bandwidth limits.
Turns out, a new update to the Nextcloud app was installed from F-Droid with a feature I wasn't aware of: Internal two way sync.
Sounds interesting. But it was deployed to my 'phone turned on. I.e. as soon as the installation completed, it seems, nextcloud -- without letting me know -- started to sync 100s of GiB of files to my 'phone.
Seriously, @Nextcloud 📱☁️💻? Seriously not cool.
I now need to clear out my phone storage, and before I do I need to figure out how to do that without deleting the files on my nextcloud server! I also now need to contact my provider to see how much overage money I owe them and to agree a payment plan.
FFS, lads.
Jesus.
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Éibhear 🔭
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in reply to Éibhear 🔭 • • •الجبر خوارزمی
in reply to Éibhear 🔭 • • •Éibhear 🔭
in reply to الجبر خوارزمی • •... except nextcloud's a primarily German operation.
But it definitely comes from the Move Fast and Break Things Department.
Blort™ 🐀Ⓥ🥋☣️
in reply to Éibhear 🔭 • • •Éibhear 🔭
in reply to Éibhear 🔭 • •8 hours after I went into my Android Nextcloud app and turned off "Two way sync", it was still trying to synchronise from my server. Many more GiB of data being pulled to my 'phone. I ended up deleting the app.
I think @Nextcloud 📱☁️💻 needs to help me understand how I can recover from this:
This is an egregious update, and I think we need some good-will support here. Without it, it's going to be very difficult for me to trust any future updates. As I follow the general advice and update my software (client and server!) as soon as there are patches to keep my services secure, it would mean I would have to shutdown my NC server if the company holds to the view that updates that cause such disruption will become the norm.
Eoin O'Beara
in reply to Éibhear 🔭 • • •Ever heard of CrowdStrike getting sued after their SNAFU? There was sabre rattling, but I never heard any further.
Éibhear 🔭
in reply to Eoin O'Beara • •The CrowdStrike suits have started: reuters.com/legal/crowdstrike-…
I guess when you lose $0.5bn in one day, you're going to take your time to try to build a strong case to reclaim it.
I have been an avid, and increasing user of Nextcloud since just after it forked from Owncloud. Last week, I bought a few more TiB of storage for my own instance, committing to it for my family's and my own file management needs. So, it's a right kick in the teeth now to discover that my faith in their promise to respect *my* data sovereignty might have been misplaced.
Eoin O'Beara
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