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Re: Show HN: Textile – Return Facebook photo exports back to nicely-named galleries

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Post by chatmasta »

edjw wrote: post #58
chatmasta wrote: post #55

If a social network wants to take over for Facebook, an “import your data from your Facebook export” tool would be a killer growth hack. Also, there’s really no reason Facebook couldn’t organize photos this already. I feel like they make that data dump as obfuscated as possible to discourage you from doing anything useful with it.

Absolutely. One of the big issues with GDPR is going to be how to practically use the right to port your data. Export functionality is one thing. It's the import bit that's often not there or isn't practical. Some standards would help.

I was expecting someone to mention GPDR, but as an obstacle more than a benefit. It seems importing your Facebook data, which includes messages and connections with other people, into a new service, may run afoul of GPDR. That’s not even to mention the legal hellstorm Facebook would rain down on any startup using such a tool successfully.

It’s interesring that GPDR forces Facebook to allow export, but may cause problems with importing that data elsewhere. The hand giveth, the hand taketh away.

Re: Show HN: Textile – Return Facebook photo exports back to nicely-named galleries

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Post by carsonfarmer »

creo wrote: post #60

It would be so funny if Textile gathered all the data. So much irony.

Haha, that would be pretty hypocritical of us! Check out the source to be sure we aren't: https://github.com/textileio/textile-facebook, and if you really want to be sure that's what we're deploying, use your browser's dev tools to inspect the code (https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Learn/Common_questi...).

Re: Show HN: Textile – Return Facebook photo exports back to nicely-named galleries

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Post by carsonfarmer »

rootlocus wrote: post #53
fimdomeio wrote: post #52

Wow... So people who have issues with how facebook handles privacy should dump their data in some other third party service? And probably some people will because well... "dumb f *s". Well it might actually be all good intentions (probably just read below is all client side readable code) but if non coders use this service it just means they learned nothing.

> All the data processing happens right in your browser. Your photos will be reorganized without ever being sent off of your device, your data remains yours :) Don't know how exactly that works, though.

Yes that's right. Also, the code can be inspected here: https://github.com/textileio/textile-facebook. For non-coders, if you are concerned about us using your data (we won't!) you can a) trust us, b) ask someone to check for you, or c) go to the page, turn off your wifi (so you aren't connected to the internet), generate your archive and download, close the page, and then click back on wifi... easy peasy :)

Re: Show HN: Textile – Return Facebook photo exports back to nicely-named galleries

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Post by carsonfarmer »

carsonfarmer wrote: post #63
rootlocus wrote: post #53

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> All the data processing happens right in your browser. Your photos will be reorganized without ever being sent off of your device, your data remains yours :) Don't know how exactly that works, though.

Yes that's right. Also, the code can be inspected here: https://github.com/textileio/textile-facebook . For non-coders, if you are concerned about us using your data (we won't!) you can a) trust us, b) ask someone to check for you, or c) go to the page, turn off your wifi (so you aren't connected to the internet), generate your archive and download, close the page, and then click back on wifi... easy peasy :)

The way it works, is that all the Javascript code runs in your browser, that way, there's need for any data to leave your computer... safe and spy-free!

Re: Show HN: Textile – Return Facebook photo exports back to nicely-named galleries

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Post by carsonfarmer »

markk wrote: post #49

you could integrate with people's existing dropbox (i.e. copy the photos into it) and provide a super simple web viewer

cool idea, though for this small project, we're trying to keep everything self-contained... so no data leaks possible...

Re: Show HN: Textile – Return Facebook photo exports back to nicely-named galleries

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Post by carsonfarmer »

forcer wrote: post #54
andrewxhill wrote: post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Very odd. If you drag the zip onto your laptop and the drop event listener doesn't pick up on it, your browser would likely just "download" the zip you dropped. Which explains what you see I'm guessing. What I'm not sure about is why the JS doesn't pick up on the drop event and process the file. Do you have any settings that would block JS? What browser are you using?

I tried in latest versions of FF and CH and it does not work (on Windows10). When I drag the ZIP archive to the area it does not do anything. Do all people just try on MAC or why it does not work for me?

Hi forcer, when you drag it over the 'drop zone' does the little zip image/icon disappear?

Re: Show HN: Textile – Return Facebook photo exports back to nicely-named galleries

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Post by s0l1dsnak3123 »

andrewxhill wrote: post #39
gk1 wrote: post #37

Not working for me. The output is the same as the input. Any ideas?

Very odd. If you drag the zip onto your laptop and the drop event listener doesn't pick up on it, your browser would likely just "download" the zip you dropped. Which explains what you see I'm guessing. What I'm not sure about is why the JS doesn't pick up on the drop event and process the file. Do you have any settings that would block JS? What browser are you using?

My export from Facebook is 5.5GB - for large zipfiles like mine, the UI doesn't do anything when you drop the file onto the event listener.

Re: Show HN: Textile – Return Facebook photo exports back to nicely-named galleries

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Post by carsonfarmer »

s0l1dsnak3123 wrote: post #68
andrewxhill wrote: post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Very odd. If you drag the zip onto your laptop and the drop event listener doesn't pick up on it, your browser would likely just "download" the zip you dropped. Which explains what you see I'm guessing. What I'm not sure about is why the JS doesn't pick up on the drop event and process the file. Do you have any settings that would block JS? What browser are you using?

My export from Facebook is 5.5GB - for large zipfiles like mine, the UI doesn't do anything when you drop the file onto the event listener.

Yes this is a known 'issue': https://github.com/textileio/textile-facebook/issues/2. Unfortunately, some browsers don't like large files being dragged-and-dropped like this. The 'solution' for now seems to be to unzip on your computer, remove the messages folder, re-zip, and try again. This should reduce your zip file significantly. Let me know if that helps at all. We're working on a more permanent fix for this in the mean time.

Re: Show HN: Textile – Return Facebook photo exports back to nicely-named galleries

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Post by carsonfarmer »

carsonfarmer wrote: post #67
forcer wrote: post #54

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I tried in latest versions of FF and CH and it does not work (on Windows10). When I drag the ZIP archive to the area it does not do anything. Do all people just try on MAC or why it does not work for me?

Hi forcer, when you drag it over the 'drop zone' does the little zip image/icon disappear?

Ok, this looks like this issue: https://github.com/textileio/textile-facebook/issues/4 We'll try to update this soon!
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