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Re: Show HN: Aft, minimalistic file transferring program

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Post by sneak » Mon, Oct 16, 2023, 11:16 AM UTC

dd-dreams wrote: post #9

sneak wrote: post #6

Feedback: having to specify addresses and ports is a drag. I suggest looking at how magic wormhole does it; nobody wants to look up and type in IP addresses. The user probably shouldn’t need to think about whether it’s in p2p mode or not.

Thanks for the feedback. Only an address is needed to be specified. There is a default port built into the source code. But, I believe in the near future I will add some kind of algorithm to extract IP addresses from phrases. > The user probably shouldn’t need to think about whether it’s in p2p mode or not. aft designs to be configurable, but I do believe your comment is right and something about it in the docs shoul…

I never want to have to configure a file transfer program. For this to be useful to me, it has to be better than magic wormhole.

Re: Show HN: Aft, minimalistic file transferring program

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Post by dd-dreams » Mon, Oct 16, 2023, 11:41 AM UTC

deciduously wrote: post #10

dd-dreams wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It sure looks excellent, `aft` actually looks very similar to it with the same relay server idea. I don't know the program, but from a first glance, it looks like it requires a relay server. While I don't think it has any major disadvantages, but needing to communicate with an external service might not be reasonable for some people. And many times you might not require a relay server at all such as transferring on a…

> Also, some people might like Rust more than Go ;) Why would this matter for users?

For users, not much since the performance is probably equal between Rust and Go. But for developers it might matter, such as forking the repository, or submitting pull requests and for other reasons they might have.

Re: Show HN: Aft, minimalistic file transferring program

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Post by dd-dreams » Mon, Oct 16, 2023, 11:55 AM UTC

sneak wrote: post #11

dd-dreams wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thanks for the feedback. Only an address is needed to be specified. There is a default port built into the source code. But, I believe in the near future I will add some kind of algorithm to extract IP addresses from phrases. > The user probably shouldn’t need to think about whether it’s in p2p mode or not. aft designs to be configurable, but I do believe your comment is right and something about it in the docs shoul…

I never want to have to configure a file transfer program. For this to be useful to me, it has to be better than magic wormhole.

The only configuration you will do is choosing the mode you're gonna use (I don't even think it counts as configuration). There are a few modes, and as I said at the comment above, very soon you could choose the default mode.

Also, its OK not wanting to configure anything, but some people might find it useful. This program aims to include both types.