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Has anyone setup/used multi user calendaring and contacts on NextCloud?

Currently considering this vs. a few standalone docker instances for calendars/contacts for one of my downtime projects over the next few weeks...

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Yes, it works well. I moved all my contacts and calendaring from Gmail to a self-hosted Nextcloud instance about two years ago. My wife and I have a calendars in common, both of which are set up as the default calendars on our mobile devices. We recently discussed having a shared address book too. Shouldn't be any trouble to set up. One of us will own it, farm out r/w access to the other, and we'll transfer contacts we ought to have in common piecemeal. CalDAV and CardDAV.

In general, Nextcloud has been transformative in allowing us to move off Google products. All our music and photos are on Nextcloud too.

I've been thinking of switching to my gmail calendar and contacts to nextcloud. But I've been wondering what you then do about contacts you email. Do you somehow keep gmail in sync with the nextcloud contacts?

I have been running OwnCloud/Nextcloud for a very long time. For me, the Calendar is the killer feature. It Just Works. Everyone in the household has an account and we share calendars with each other. You can use whatever client you want (Thunderbird, Android, Apple devices) but the web UI is really excellent and easy to use as well.

My biggest gripe with Nextcloud is that upgrading between major versions is a pain and they release upgrades often. If my VPS didn't have other duties as well, I would probably switch to a hosted version.

yep! using it for my family for about five years now. completely painless across devices.

apples can access it via builtin caldav/carddav, android needs an app.

Does nextcloud still use caldav/carddav?

Yes

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