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Proton launches privacy-focused Google Docs alternative: Docs in Proton Drive is an open-source, end-to-end encrypted collaborative document editor (proton.me)

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[–] [email protected] 40 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Then it's a good thing all of their products are fully functional and working as advertised, I guess.

[+] [email protected] -38 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Sure, whatever you want to belief :)

[–] [email protected] 18 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Which bits are not functional? I'm using their email and calendar.. they aren't completely polished, but they're very usable.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 months ago (4 children)

Drive has no Linux client, Photos is extremely barebones and locks you basically in, as there is no export function.

Pass still has no proper SimpleLogin integration, no credit card support and UX wise is the browser extension pretty bad. Funny enough, years after launch you still can't auto fill on Reddit.

The only thing I don't like about Mail is that you still have to create reverse aliases through SimpleLogin. Better integration would be great.

Contacts still don't sync to you local mobile contacts. Which means you either do it manually or you have to keep two sets updated.

Calendar is good too, I've heard it has no offline support though. Although I haven't verified that.

Last thing I would like to see is notification support without Play Services.

Some of those things might be super unimportant to some, but for me it makes the use of their stuff unnecessary cumbersome. Especially if you consider that those are all Proton products and should work together well.

My by far biggest problem is their communication and general development speed though. Stuff like contact sync has been requested for 5(?) years now but there hasn't been so much as a "we're working on it".

It feels to me they come out with new products all the time, like the document editor now, without addressing the little things that would make their ecosystem great.

Anyway, long ramble. But I appreciate that you asked for more details without insulting me.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago

These are some excellent points, thank you for sharing rather than just giving a blanket "they bad" statement.

I believe Pass has integrated SimpleMail now, you can create aliases which forward to your email without setting up reverse aliases.

You can also add credit cards to Pass now, this was actually one of the things keeping me on Bitwarden for ages.

Can't say that their communication has improved though, all I can find on contact sync is that "Soon you'll be able to sync the contacts in your proton mail app to the default contact app on your mobile device" so if poor communication is your biggest problem then I can't fault you for avoiding them.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Drive has no Linux client,

~~I'm actually pretty sure they have one. I was doing a lot of exploring the last 2 days to make sure it was worth it to me to spend money on. And I landed on a downloads page on my Linux desktop that had a download link for drive for fedora, or debian. I can't find it on mobile (where I am now), but I'll look later on my PC and see if I can link it.~~

Was wrong, not sure what I found. Must have been the vpn or mail app.

Photos is extremely barebones and locks you basically in, as there is no export function

Interesting, thanks for the heads up. Hopefully it gets better later on, but for the moment I'm glad I made my own solution using a NAS, and a sync client.

Contacts still don't sync

This was one of my first concerns, I'm also annoyed by it.

Additionally, I was hoping their big "docs update" would also include spreadsheets, but hopefully soon.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Community has been begging for contacts for years...

It is getting tiring

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

That's a good list. Certainly a public feature/bug tracker would be nice. But those are pretty rare for corporate software..