Firebase is a really attractive service to quickly and easily bring powerful features to any app, but I can't help it.. I feel like I'd be including yet another way for Google to track people. Therefore I avoid any app with Firebase in them, no matter how cool they are. Am I overly suspicious here?
Sharedrop – Easy P2P file transfer powered by WebRTC
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Re: Sharedrop – Easy P2P file transfer powered by WebRTC
#22Earlier quoted context omitted.
I started using Firefox Send recently, I have been really impressed with the simplicity and easy of use. I haven’t tried it, but it is open source and possible to self-host if you so chose. But for the time being it remains free, and you can share up to a generous 2.5 GB if you log in with a Firefox account so I see no reason to put in the effort yet. That being said, Sharedrop seems to be a different use case, only…
Meanwhile, I found the 2.5 GB limit on Firefox Send really frustrating this weekend when I was trying to send 80 GB of raw video files to a friend. :) Turns out there's very few options available for really large P2P file transfers, short of hosting an FTP server.
For 80gb I would send a usb pen via mail
Re: Sharedrop – Easy P2P file transfer powered by WebRTC
#23Earlier quoted context omitted.
I started using Firefox Send recently, I have been really impressed with the simplicity and easy of use. I haven’t tried it, but it is open source and possible to self-host if you so chose. But for the time being it remains free, and you can share up to a generous 2.5 GB if you log in with a Firefox account so I see no reason to put in the effort yet. That being said, Sharedrop seems to be a different use case, only…
Meanwhile, I found the 2.5 GB limit on Firefox Send really frustrating this weekend when I was trying to send 80 GB of raw video files to a friend. :) Turns out there's very few options available for really large P2P file transfers, short of hosting an FTP server.
why not use a regular old torrent?
Re: Sharedrop – Easy P2P file transfer powered by WebRTC
#24Earlier quoted context omitted.
I started using Firefox Send recently, I have been really impressed with the simplicity and easy of use. I haven’t tried it, but it is open source and possible to self-host if you so chose. But for the time being it remains free, and you can share up to a generous 2.5 GB if you log in with a Firefox account so I see no reason to put in the effort yet. That being said, Sharedrop seems to be a different use case, only…
Meanwhile, I found the 2.5 GB limit on Firefox Send really frustrating this weekend when I was trying to send 80 GB of raw video files to a friend. :) Turns out there's very few options available for really large P2P file transfers, short of hosting an FTP server.
Curious, couldn't you have used a torrent for that?
Re: Sharedrop – Easy P2P file transfer powered by WebRTC
#25Firebase is a really attractive service to quickly and easily bring powerful features to any app, but I can't help it.. I feel like I'd be including yet another way for Google to track people. Therefore I avoid any app with Firebase in them, no matter how cool they are. Am I overly suspicious here?
yes
the same tired battle lines have been baked into tech for 12 years now, and it exhausts me to read the Google ones these days
it's sad that this is a source of innovation, but simply switching from Apple "infrastructure" and languages has been a massive step change in my productivity.
If you're really unsure, audit network traffic and the code
Re: Sharedrop – Easy P2P file transfer powered by WebRTC
#26Looks like it doesn't work on iOS.
What happened to AirDrop? It used to "just work" and now it rarely works.
In the last two days I experienced: - Unable to discover devices (a constant AirDrop frustration) - Transferred a video from iPhone to Mac, had to wait for video to be converted first? - Transferred video from (different) iPhone to Mac, transfer repeatedly resulted in a corrupt 0 byte file
AirDrop has become totally unreliable.
Re: Sharedrop – Easy P2P file transfer powered by WebRTC
#27Earlier quoted context omitted.
I started using Firefox Send recently, I have been really impressed with the simplicity and easy of use. I haven’t tried it, but it is open source and possible to self-host if you so chose. But for the time being it remains free, and you can share up to a generous 2.5 GB if you log in with a Firefox account so I see no reason to put in the effort yet. That being said, Sharedrop seems to be a different use case, only…
Meanwhile, I found the 2.5 GB limit on Firefox Send really frustrating this weekend when I was trying to send 80 GB of raw video files to a friend. :) Turns out there's very few options available for really large P2P file transfers, short of hosting an FTP server.
Disclosure, I work at Dropbox: but did you consider paying for a tool? Or were you mostly interested in free options?
Re: Sharedrop – Easy P2P file transfer powered by WebRTC
#28Firebase is a really attractive service to quickly and easily bring powerful features to any app, but I can't help it.. I feel like I'd be including yet another way for Google to track people. Therefore I avoid any app with Firebase in them, no matter how cool they are. Am I overly suspicious here?
Not really. You shouldn't have to audit network traffic and de-compile an app before you can trust it.
Re: Sharedrop – Easy P2P file transfer powered by WebRTC
#29Looks like it doesn't work on iOS. What happened to AirDrop? It used to "just work" and now it rarely works. In the last two days I experienced: - Unable to discover devices (a constant AirDrop frustration) - Transferred a video from iPhone to Mac, had to wait for video to be converted first? - Transferred video from (different) iPhone to Mac, transfer repeatedly resulted in a corrupt 0 byte file AirDrop has become t…
Check you don’t have any misbehaving GHz-spectrum appliances or devices - like leaky microwave ovens and bad Bluetooth devices.
AirDrop is nice - I understand Apple’s business reasons for keeping it Apple-exclusive, but the lack of bog-standard Bluetooth file transfer in iOS is just being mean.
Re: Sharedrop – Easy P2P file transfer powered by WebRTC
#30> Sharedrop: HTML5 clone of Apple's AirDrop – easy P2P file transfer powered by W Powered by W? Is W a new programming language or JavaScript framework? It looks like @todsacerdoti is not aware that Hacker News submissions are limited to 80 characters in the title. They probably wanted to submit “HTML5 clone of Apple's AirDrop - easy P2P file transfer powered by WebRTC” which is 73 characters long and represents the…
I don’t think ”P2P file transfer” would be sufficient to describe the project as the Airdrop aspect makes it really different from what most people likely think of P2P file transfer.