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Discontinuing RSS service

Ok, this one is probably going to annoy some of you, but hopefully our argument will be convincing.

We have decided to stop offering Nextcloud News (RSS reader) or any alternative online RSS reader.

The reason for this decision is purely the hardware resources needed to maintain it and the fact...

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DisNews #1 - New core member; Mailbox encryption funding; maintenance window

First three months behind us. 2021 has failed to return to normality, despite our globaly shared flase hopes. Seems like things are getting only worse and does not look like thing will change in that regard. We would like to therefore, send our warm hugs to everyone who's been struggling with realit...

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Downtime caused by loose power cable

Those of you who follow our state site probably know we have been migrating all our servers to a new rack cabinet on Sunday. The operation went very smooth and things were back online within an hour.


Sunday around midnight (CET) one of our servers went down shortly. Because of the disk encrypti...

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Ufff... finally End of 2020

Happy Solstice

And what a year it was! There is no point in emphasizing how this year sucked for all of us and how everything seems to be upside down around the world. Let's just focus on positive stuff and enjoy the last days of the year.

We would like to wish you all a great celebrations and a...

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End-of-the-Year sticker design competition

Last year, our End-of-the-Year fundraising was a success, and something really fun to do. We thought we should end this crazy year with something fun and creative as well. For a while we have been wanting to provide more gifts to all Disrooters donating money to keep the platform afloat. While makin...

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