For several years I was using TTRSS, but this year I moved to a Miniflux instance that I host at home. I couple it with an instance of Wallabag for saving articles for later reading. I like the experience of the Miniflux PWA app better than TTRSS.

Speaking from experience from the last five years, it’s been pretty good for me.

Nextcloud has chat capabilities. Perhaps it might be overkill for chat alone but presumably you also want some collaboration with documents.

Budibase.

Time heals all wounds. Make sure you don’t keep reopening them.

I played so much X-Com, Civ 2, and Final Fantasy Tactics back in the day.

In this day and age they would be TikTok stars.

Just wanted to say thank you for setting up and running these services. The Internet is exciting again. More power to you and the team!

Start using it more frequently and favor it over GUI apps. For instance, use cd and ls over the file manager. Launch applications I using the command line. Figure out ways to do in the CLI what you used to do using GUI. Over time you should get more comfortable with the environment.