Any chance you’d be willing to share those results? The site isn’t accepting signups any more.

Most people who “self host” things are still doing it on a server somewhere outside their home. Could be a VPS, a cloud instance, colocated bare metal, …

I used Mattermost for a community project, but had trouble getting people to install/use/learn yet another client.

It’s a legal complaint. Someone is going to get fined, likely thousands of dollars, if the complaint is substantiated. I strongly suspect a human will be reading the whole thing more than once, before proceeding to gather much more info.

Using a “laundry basket with a search robot” IS inherently a worse way to store data than a “file system with hierarchy”.

Nested folders are reliable and predictable.

Tagging is also a good option.

Relying on search that is likely to fail in predictable ways is an awful way to do anything serious. And therein lies the problem… These people have mostly never done serious work with a computer before, that other people rely on. As soon as someone else stands to lose money or fail a class because you can’t find a file, the distinction will come into sharp focus.

https://www.pcgamer.com/students-dont-know-what-files-and-folders-are-professors-say/

Students don’t know what files and folders are, professors say A whole generation has grown up with powerful search functions, and don’t think about computers the same way.

Apparently this has become a widespread problem in colleges starting in the last decade.