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Re:France's homegrown open source online office suite by busterarm on Saturday February 07, 2026 @04:35PM (#46928341)
This is very obvious.

What part of your document editor needs to be backed by a relational database?

Why use an MVT system if you don't need the Model part of it?

Re:France's homegrown open source online office suite by ffsm8 on Saturday February 07, 2026 @06:36PM (#46929508)
https://github.com/suitenumerique/docs/blob/main/src/backend...

I see, in your broad and experienced mind, document editors don't have users, permissions, and the whole document management itself, comments on lines/threads, reactions on comments

Seriously, theyre all as cookie cutter perfect usecase for Django as you can get, but I guess you haven't actually thought about the domain and just wanted to take a dumb on other devs with intern-to-junior level insights

Re:France's homegrown open source online office suite by busterarm on Sunday February 08, 2026 @05:06PM (#46939034)
You don't necessarily need that to get these things...
Re:France's homegrown open source online office suite by ffsm8 on Sunday February 08, 2026 @10:41PM (#46941317)
Obviously, you don't need the model abstraction for any software, ever. It is just more or less suited for a domain.

And in this case, as would be obvious from thinking about it, the only part it's not suited for is the live syncing of the text edit on the frontend, which is one one small part of the whole.

Re:France's homegrown open source online office suite by busterarm on Sunday February 08, 2026 @11:41PM (#46941648)
Storing the text documents themselves in a relational database is itself a terrible idea.
Re:France's homegrown open source online office suite by ffsm8 on Monday February 09, 2026 @03:59AM (#46943176)
It's not a bad idea, generally. it depends on the implementation. If you're updating it multiple times per second, then yes, it's a bad idea.

Now go check if they're doing it or you're just suggesting from the dunning kruger symptom.