Another update for today: We're planning to revive LibreOffice Online, a web-based version of the suite that users can deploy on their own infrastructure: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/02/24/libreoffice-online-a-fresh-start/

[chaosinthoughts@techhub.social]

@libreoffice Cool! Would be interesting to try the web version on my own server and see how convenient it is compared to the desktop version

[hostsharing@geno.social]

@libreoffice Happy to hear that.

[sardon@framapiaf.org]

@libreoffice and you gonna call that collabora online ?

I tought that is what they already did, may be not apparently...

[michelelinux@mastodon.uno]

@elettrona @libreoffice e su Windows utilizzi nvda o jaws? Se hai poi messo o meno qualche accorgimento. Perché io quando lo provai qualche mese fa, non avevo molti feedback

[qole@techhub.social]

@vwbusguy @dacmot @libreoffice
I'm curious now too, will this be connected to Collabora? Will they be funding any of this work? It's honestly a good idea, if they are, pushing some of this infrastructure upstream...

[qole@techhub.social]

@vwbusguy @dacmot @libreoffice
Yeah, Collabora MUST be involved in this somehow. Their homepage states, "We are the leading contributor to bringing LibreOffice based technology to the browser, the largest code contributor to LibreOffice, and have the largest team of certified LibreOffice developers."

[avincentinspace@furry.engineer]

@libreoffice please, anything that is less godawful than collabora

[qole@techhub.social]

@MyView @libreoffice
This is about building a free, open source replacement for online, cloud services like Google Docs, or Office 365, this shouldn't impact the desktop OpenOffice suite.
My kid, in university, uses Google Docs almost exclusively for everything, because you can share your documents and edit them collaboratively, in real time, with people from all over. It's kind of amazing, watching multiple people editing a document simultaneously...

[riverpunk@defcon.social]

@theoneisrightlad @libreoffice technically, they're just creating the hostable software, but not managing the liability of hosting it. Looks like they're hoping some other orgs will take up the helm, offering competitive pricing for folks.

Seems like not a bad middle ground. I'm hoping something good pops up so I can recommend it to my non-techy friends.

[droidboy@social.cologne]

@libreoffice Can you do it that way that even I can host it? Like I can host Wordpress? Upload, put in data, hit install, done? If I need a diploma in IT I am left out

[scott_trakker@mastodon.world]

@WestFox35 @libreoffice

It's not a competition: the company Colllabora is one of the driving forces behind LibreOffice. They are mentioned a lot in the release notes.

[khrys@mamot.fr]

@libreoffice

[guenther@chaos.social]

@libreoffice so this is a follow-up to you calling OnlyOffice "fake open source" on that same blog?

https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/02/16/why-odf-and-not-ooxml/

[wilhelm@fedia.social]

@libreoffice how does it compare to CollaboraOnline and why the change of mind irt prior TDF decision to not do this?

[randamumaki@mstdn.social]

@celbri @libreoffice Don't use social media when tired and sick. I have deleted my toot.

[ef@mastodon.bsd.cafe]

@libreoffice wonderful but please make sure it doesn't require a container or require glibc on Linux and can run on the BSDs and Solaris derivatives. Thank you.