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Twake Drive – An open-source alternative to Google Drive

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Post by belinder »

wobfan wrote: post #163
Valodim wrote: post #149

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Using Nextcloud on the web feels like a state of the art 2015 PHP web UI. It is... fine. But compare it to immich for example and they're just not playing in the same league imo

100%. Though their UI has been update a little with the last major release. > But compare it to immich for example and they're just not playing in the same league imo I mean, this doesn't make sense at all, tbf. They're literally not in the same league, as their targeting different use cases. Nextcloud offers a MUCH broader experience, while Immich has a very clear cut focus and does nothing outside of that. Comparin…

So what's the immich equivalent for file sharing

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Post by bogwog »

pgt wrote: post #96

If you want to increase adoption, change the name: https://www.paulgraham.com/name.html TDrive would work

Where was this guy when Mr Newel was setting up store.steampowered.com? Imagine how much more successful they'd be if they went with steam.com instead

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Post by westurner »

thebeardisred wrote: post #152
MontyCarloHall wrote: post #83

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TIL about ACLs! I think that would nicely solve the group permission issue.

Then let me also introduce you to extended attributes, aka xattrs. That's how the data for SELinux is stored.

There is no support for writing multiple xattrs in one transaction.

There is no support for writing multiple xattrs and file contents in one transaction.

Journaled filesystems that immediately flush xattrs to the journal do have atomic writes of single xattrs; so you'd need to stuff all data in one xattr value and serialize/deserialize (with e.g JSON, or potentially Arrow IPC with Feather ~mmap'd from xattrs (edit: but getxattr() doesn't support mmap. And xattr storage limits: EXT4: 4K, XFS: 64k, BTRFS: 16K)

Atomicity (database systems) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomicity_(database_systems)

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Post by seabrookmx »

misterdata wrote: post #158
seabrookmx wrote: post #150

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+1 for Syncthing. I've been running it for years, after my student discount for Dropbox expired (Google drive and OneDrive were just getting traction at the time). The mobile experience last I tried was pretty rough though. I don't really need my files on my phone and I have a web interface on my home server I can use to grab them in a pinch, but it's something to keep in mind.

If you’re on iOS, try my (FOSS) app for Syncthing: https://github.com/pixelspark/sushitrain

Android unfortunately.

Cool app though!

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Post by princevegeta89 »

juchilov wrote: post #121

Seafile is the only good enough thing i've found so far for self-hosted file sync. But it is still a pain to upgrade the server version. nextCloud and friends is a complete disaster in my oppinion.

I recently got into self-hosting Seafile and successfully set it up on my dedicated server. Had to think backup and security strategies quite a bit and ultimately I set up a bulletproof backup mechanism. Tested it pretty rigorously.

Seafile took me by surprise in terms of how quick it was at picking up new files and changes - syncing works incredibly well too. I moved all my files from my Google Drive into my Seafile instance and I'm now using it on all my devices as my main cloud storage solution.

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Post by roshin »

I know this probably goes against hn ethos, but one of my most important features is the search. I store TB of data and it could be hard to find a picture. I want the cloud software to analyze the image so that I can search "2 people on Nothing street" and find it.

so far google is amazing at search. hopefully others will be better, but it's really hard to evaluate cloud software based on that

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Post by liqilin1567 »

pas wrote: post #22
sneak wrote: post #6

Zero percent chance I will ever trust my critical data to a mongo-backed service, personally. With clients some of them have already made this bad decision; with my own personal files I get to avoid it.

why? since WiredTiger is the default storage engine it works

Someone else also shared a similar experience, so it seems true that we should avoid store critical data in mongodb

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45694376

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Post by safety1st »

orliesaurus wrote: post #106

Lots of talk about must‑have features and backups here... BUT there's another piece that makes or breaks these tools... whether they can build a community around them and stick around for years... Open‑source cloud storage projects come and go when maintainers burn out... a sustainable business model or strong contributor base matters as much as technical checklists... ALSO interoperability is underrated... if your d…

Is that a weakness of the tool's organizational model?

I don't want to be part of a community around my cloud storage. I want it to work and I want to think about it as little as possible.

I use Syncthing and it does a pretty great job at this, no one ever insisted I need to join a Syncthing community, yet it keeps on working.

I don't pay a dime for Syncthing but I'm vaguely aware that they're linked to a company called Kastelo which provides enterprise support for Syncthing deployments. Probably a lot of Syncthing development is paid for that way.

Incidentally I founded an open source consulting company that's totally unrelated to cloud storage. We have enterprise as well as smaller contracts. We develop some addons in-house and the bigger enterprise contracts tend to subsidize most of the work that goes into them. We haven't asked anyone to be part of a community and I don't think we need to.

Communities are nice, but if you want your software to last I think a good business model and a good marketing strategy are a better bet. Bonus, you can quit your day job.

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Post by magic_hamster »

fletchowns wrote: post #178
Valodim wrote: post #149

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Using Nextcloud on the web feels like a state of the art 2015 PHP web UI. It is... fine. But compare it to immich for example and they're just not playing in the same league imo

I've been using Nextcloud for years, but I've never used the web UI. Windows desktop app for syncing my Documents folder, and Android app for synchronizing a few folders on my phone, as well as the "append only" upload of my photo reel that something like SyncThing doesn't support. Works great, never had any issues with Nextcloud. The real value is in the companion apps. I use a cron job to back up Nextcloud to B2 an…

Couple of questions on your backups:

How much storage do you use and how much does it cost?

Have you ever tried restoring from Glacier?

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Post by seraphine »

misterdata wrote: post #158
seabrookmx wrote: post #150

Earlier quoted context omitted.

+1 for Syncthing. I've been running it for years, after my student discount for Dropbox expired (Google drive and OneDrive were just getting traction at the time). The mobile experience last I tried was pretty rough though. I don't really need my files on my phone and I have a web interface on my home server I can use to grab them in a pinch, but it's something to keep in mind.

If you’re on iOS, try my (FOSS) app for Syncthing: https://github.com/pixelspark/sushitrain

Unfortunately not available in my country (Malaysia)
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