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YouTransfer: Self-hosted file transfer and sharing solution

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Re: YouTransfer: Self-hosted file transfer and sharing solution

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scrlk wrote: post #18
causi wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've seen probably four or five different brilliant file transfer solutions that totally solved the person to person file transfer problem posted to HN and every dang one of them was shut down or abandoned.

For a Linux user, you can already build such a system yourself quite trivially by getting an FTP account, mounting it locally with curlftpfs, and then using SVN or CVS on the mounted filesystem. From Windows or Mac, this FTP account could be accessed through built-in software.

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Re: YouTransfer: Self-hosted file transfer and sharing solution

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Post by squarefoot »

say_it_as_it_is wrote: post #14

There seems to be a trend of people on HN sharing abandoned projects seeking a maintainer

Because there are many unknown, probably worth of being picked by some volunteers. I think it'd be worth creating some place (HN subsection?) where a list of dead or unmaintained, still worth of attention, projects could be kept so that potential maintainers could be made aware of their existence. Just a simple list, all text, one line per project with a bunch of fields: YYYYMMDD formatted date of last update | Name (resolving to link to the project page) | Short description | clickable short list of say max 5 tags so that users can find similar ones just by refining the search to the desired tag(s).

Re: YouTransfer: Self-hosted file transfer and sharing solution

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Post by stavros »

ckcheng wrote: post #6
causi wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've seen probably four or five different brilliant file transfer solutions that totally solved the person to person file transfer problem posted to HN and every dang one of them was shut down or abandoned.

PairDrop works: https://pairdrop.net/ https://github.com/schlagmichdoch/PairDrop Other alternatives: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38915909

I've been using Send, which I really like: https://github.com/timvisee/send

Re: YouTransfer: Self-hosted file transfer and sharing solution

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Post by stavros »

sureglymop wrote: post #10
blacklight wrote: post #7

Before trying it in my lab, could the author elaborate on what's its killer feature? The README mentions that it's an alternative to both Dropbox and WeTransfer. My current alternative to Dropbox is Nextcloud, and my current alternative to WeTransfer is (formerly Mozilla) Send. What's the added value of YouTransfer compared to this solution? I'm also put off by the fact that the README has a big "looking for a new ma…

How do you like Send and is it still maintained? I also use Nextcloud but use the Floccus browser extension to sync bookmarks to Nextcloud. Works well when it works.

I really like Send, I'm not sure it's still maintained, but it works well, so I don't know what there is to maintain. It comes with a cli utility as well.

https://github.com/timvisee/send

Re: YouTransfer: Self-hosted file transfer and sharing solution

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Post by nurettin »

ajsnigrutin wrote: post #17
causi wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've seen probably four or five different brilliant file transfer solutions that totally solved the person to person file transfer problem posted to HN and every dang one of them was shut down or abandoned.

Apache is still maintaned, so is nginx... just throw the file into a folder accessible by the webserver (within documentroot), and you're done :)

This is what I do. But these projects give you uploading, hash url generation and thumbnail previews as well, if you care about such things.

Re: YouTransfer: Self-hosted file transfer and sharing solution

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Post by actionfromafar »

stavros wrote: post #24
say_it_as_it_is wrote: post #14

There seems to be a trend of people on HN sharing abandoned projects seeking a maintainer

I even made a community for that! https://www.codeshelter.co/ It's abandoned, though.

Haha taking the long play to the punchline!

Re: YouTransfer: Self-hosted file transfer and sharing solution

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Post by kilroy123 »

theblazehen wrote: post #5
causi wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've seen probably four or five different brilliant file transfer solutions that totally solved the person to person file transfer problem posted to HN and every dang one of them was shut down or abandoned.

It's unfortunately not FOSS, but I quite like https://wormhole.app/ - It's client side encrypted and P2P when possible

Agreed. That's my favorite as well.
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