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Copyparty – Turn almost any device into a file server

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Re: Copyparty – Turn almost any device into a file server

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Post by keysdev »

nkrisc wrote: post #9
skibz wrote: post #3

The author of this tool uploaded a YouTube video demonstrating it a few days ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=15_-hgsX2V0 At one point in his demo, he uploads a file but terminates the upload more or less halfway. Then he begins downloading the file - which only progresses to the point it had been uploaded, and subsequently stalls indefinitely. And, finally, he finishes uploading the file (which gracefully resume…

It's very impressive, particularly if you remember waking up to a failed download from the night before over dial-up.

Magic of http 206 ?

Re: Copyparty – Turn almost any device into a file server

#102

Post by esseph »

tripflag wrote: post #86
darkwater wrote: post #74

This is the wet dream of every power-user. It has tons of features on top of the file server. And it also seems developed by a 10x (100x?) developer, I mean, just making/editing the video is a work of art and humor. If the author is lurking here, are you doing all by yourself? Do you use any LLM/agent? It really is impressive.

Hey o/ Yup, this is 97% just me hacking away in vscode -- I use pylance and the debugger but have everything else disabled, easier to focus that way. The only time I use any sort of AI/LLM is for translating new strings into Chinese, since it seems decently capable at that :-) The remaining 2% is friends coming up with new usecases/features, and sometimes finding bugs. But now that the project got way more attention…

I noticed on the demo server you had some ansi art on there.

Were you a part of the efnet ansi/ascii scene?

There's still some of us floating around!

Great project btw, nice work!

Re: Copyparty – Turn almost any device into a file server

#103

Post by robotbikes »

henry700 wrote: post #76
paulryanrogers wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I recall we had special apps to queue and schedule our downloads, and resume them where servers supported it. They were a dream compared to the boredom of staring at progress bars.

Anyone remember DAP, Download Accelerator Plus? The colorful bars were nice. A part of my childhood, downloading shareware Windows games through dial-up.

I remember that...

Re: Copyparty – Turn almost any device into a file server

#105

Post by shrinks99 »

monkmartinez wrote: post #14

This is awesome. The readme is fun as heck and I just want to use the software based on that. I see nothing but complaints about nextcloud and others on r/selfhosted. I can't wait to try this out.

From the readme:

> NOTE: full bidirectional sync, like what nextcloud and syncthing does, will never be supported! Only single-direction sync (server-to-client, or client-to-server) is possible with copyparty

Worth noting that if you're considering using Nextcloud this may be a dealbreaker... But if it's not, I would also recommend not using Nextcloud!

Re: Copyparty – Turn almost any device into a file server

#106

Post by chickenzzzzu »

kreco wrote: post #90

Coincidentally, I started to do media server similar to this 3 days ago. I just want to serve any folder, then be able to download a file and watch videos with a decent video player. Now I feel like crap seeing how amazing this project is.

Don't let others stop you. Pretend you never saw it

Re: Copyparty – Turn almost any device into a file server

#107

Post by ckrailo »

throwawaylaptop wrote: post #93

Half techie guy here with basic question. Could I run this on an old android phone sitting on a shelf with a large minisd card in the slot and call it a day?

Yup, here's a timestamp to the intro video where the author says it was "made for termux, born in termux": https://youtu.be/15_-hgsX2V0?t=889

Re: Copyparty – Turn almost any device into a file server

#108

Post by yougotwill »

tripflag wrote: post #86
darkwater wrote: post #74

This is the wet dream of every power-user. It has tons of features on top of the file server. And it also seems developed by a 10x (100x?) developer, I mean, just making/editing the video is a work of art and humor. If the author is lurking here, are you doing all by yourself? Do you use any LLM/agent? It really is impressive.

Hey o/ Yup, this is 97% just me hacking away in vscode -- I use pylance and the debugger but have everything else disabled, easier to focus that way. The only time I use any sort of AI/LLM is for translating new strings into Chinese, since it seems decently capable at that :-) The remaining 2% is friends coming up with new usecases/features, and sometimes finding bugs. But now that the project got way more attention…

Been using copyparty for 2 years now. It’s awesome tech and just want to say thank you for your work tripflag!

Re: Copyparty – Turn almost any device into a file server

#109

Post by xarope »

dmd wrote: post #57

[starts watching video] Ok cool it's a file browser, there's a million of the---s----e [keeps watching video] what the fuck

I thought I was going to be rick-rolled, but the video is actually very good, and if the functionality is as described, well then hats off to the creator of copy party. Fantastic work!

Re: Copyparty – Turn almost any device into a file server

#110

Post by sajb »

sunshine-o wrote: post #46

In addition to being an awesome piece of software, their self hosted demo server is the fastest web app I have seen in a long time ... and this is while trending on HN ! Amazing. Now I am wondering, would it be technically possible to build a similar app but based on the syncthing protocol? I really like syncthing but it would be cool to have a version where you could just easily share specific files with peers.

Not any longer, it seems. :/

Never mine, it's back now.

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