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
It’s fine but it’s really slow and basic.
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.
It takes like 10 seconds to open a document
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
Wow! Incredible! Ten whole seconds?
Just enough time for me consider thinking if I go for a coffee in the meantime.
If you like waiting around for things, that’s your prerogative. It’s not my preference.
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.
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 😅
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.
Is that this tool?
I haven’t heard of it before- is it kind of similar to cryotomator?
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.
Good luck with the competition!
I mainly use offline tools like onlyoffice, but i love cryptpad. It’s the best office suite for privacy. Highly recommend.
