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0 pointsStrangeSound4d ago0 comments

I wish Proton would focus on all of the missing features within their existing product suite before creating even more offerings to maintain

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jszymborski4d ago

It would be really cool for them to get read/write calendar sharing on Proton Calendar to finally work on iOS. It's a huge pain, but just self-hosting a CalDAV server is still a better solution because I can actually share calendars.

https://www.reddit.com/r/ProtonMail/comments/1bptl3c/shared_...

teekert4d ago

Sometimes yes. But with Meet? No. I was really waiting for this!

I actually appreciate how they balance features and new products. They are becoming more credible MS365/Google Workspace alternatives with every step.

weezing4d ago

Still waiting for Drive for Linux.

neobrain4d ago

They are hiring specifically for that: https://old.reddit.com/r/ProtonDrive/comments/1spx14d/proton...

latentsea3d ago

So much this.

mrkn14d ago

invalidSyntax3d ago

And another +1

setsewerd4d ago

I might be an outlier here in caring about this product but I really want Proton Docs to get optimized better, it takes way too long to load.

Google docs may not be private but it takes <1 second to load when I click the browser bookmark, vs 11 seconds to load a Proton document.

11-second load time for a page is a lot of friction in 2026, no matter how secure your product is.

Imustaskforhelp4d ago

The thing I am interested in proton docs is if it can have API functionality. Proton docs allow anonymous users to write things and I wish if there was an API functionality, then people can use it to create anonymous/(pseudonomous?) comments and hose those comments as a comment engine and many other interesting things like creating forms themselves on it.

I would love to build on proton but Alas the API isn't open source and recently with Proton meet and its controversy, my trust on proton has shifted a bit too which dampened my enthusiasm in all of this.

(To make the API I even used puppeeter instances to do it, and after quite a long time I was able to succeed actually but that's just not scalable)

CaninoDev3d ago

Maybe that exposes a security vector they aren’t comfortable with yet?

port113d ago

Could it be you’re using Chrome with the offline Docs extension? On Brave and without the extension, Docs isn’t nearly as fast for me — even if Proton remains slow.

I also wish I could afford Proton as a non-pro user…

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