@gjacobse yeah, entirely safe is not possible. And of course, large companies (think of Dropbox, Google etc) have huge numbers of security people and tools and I bet they create very secure software. Thing is, as you say, entirely safe is not possible and these big boys are very interesting targets while your ownCloud running on your private server isn't... So in practice, decentralization might still be the better option. Everything can be hacked but you're a lot less interesting on your own little server than together with everybody else

Awesome. Hope you'll enjoy the improvements, I know I do

BTW ownCloud 8.2 is coming soon, too, less than a month away! Some nice improvements again

... according to a blog by our security guy. Yeah, look who's talking, but I think it is, in general, an interesting blog. He attacks the simple view of just looking at the number of security advisories and drawing conclusions from that:
"Many vendors tend to not disclose their security problems which makes them look better if one simply looks at factors such as amounts of the advisories."
and
"If we’d stop putting so much effort into finding and fixing security problems, which would decrease the number of advisories, ownCloud wouldn’t necessarily become more secure."

He uses some decent math to make his point and I think this can be informative about other projects, too.

Find his blog here.
Enjoy

The new Android app comes with many improvements including Material Design, file copy, text file preview and more. I know a lot of users have waited for this so - here it is! The best part: this release would not have been possible without the extensive help from community volunteers. Read their story in the blog post I wrote about the new release!

A great example of how community involvement makes things better. And sorry for the HUGE screenshot, no idea how to make it a bit more... humble

Yeah, that took 'em a while

Heya,

I've been working on a timeline of ownCloud's history. We turned five in the beginning of this year and I thought, well, it'd be nice to have a bit of an overview. Well, that ran a bit out of hand, the page I created became rather massive and I learned far more about CSS than I even thought possible

But it was kind'a fun and I like the end result. Wrote a blog about it, too.

As I can't manage to upload a pic, here's a link to a pic of a part of the whole thing, too

I guess it'd be interesting to for people who want to learn a bit more about ownCloud - and in general, the code is in github so if you ever need to create a timeline with only css and html (no javascript, no sir, me not know javascript, hehe) then check it out. This is a version of the timeline with all the CSS inline, so it is relatively easy to re-create somewhere else.

Have fun and - feedback welcome

ah, ok. Yeah, the image is also here:

Getting your #ownCloud server up and running is now easier than ever: grab our VM with the built in ownCloud Proxy app! If you didn't know about ownCloud Proxy yet (and I can forgive you for that, it is very new) you can learn more at owncloud.org/connect

We've also released 8.1.3, 8.0.8 and 7.0.10 updates. Get the news and updates here.

Hello there

I'm indeed from ownCloud, nice to see you all. I've been told this is a cool place and we should tell people here about what we're doing. So I just posted a development report, a bit of a behind-the-scenes of ownCloud development. If you're interested, I can try to post more...

Hi all!

I have just published our latest development report, which even has a video. Are you interested in this and should I publish future development reports here?

Let me know what you think!