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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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Post by brnt »

noirbot wrote: post #32
martinbaun wrote: post #30

I recently started using SyncThing, it seems just perfect to share between two people. Maybe I'll put it on a server as well so we can sync without being online.

It's definitely pretty nice, but the ergonomics of it for someone that's not that good with computers can be a little hard. I've gotten synced folders into bad states before that took a long time to fix. It's also kinda awkward having to send over a nominally private and very long ID string to set up the share in the first place.

Having the whitelist all peers on all peers is a chore.

I stick with Resilio for this reason. For over a decade now it had been a 100% reliable fire and forget tool.

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

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Post by prophesi »

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.

For context, this is a parody of the infamous https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224

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

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Post by kjkjadksj »

causi wrote: post #4
moontear wrote: post #2

Last checkin four years ago and README says „looking for a new maintainer“. Is this abandonware?

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.

Because the problem doesn’t exist. Non tech folk use stuff like imessage to send things and rarely deal with large files at all beyond images or video. That works fine for them. Tech people use proven existing tooling like rsync or ftp. The only market that exist for this I’d guess is resumeware which explains why these projects are all built then abandoned.

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

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Post by kjkjadksj »

notso411 wrote: post #35
scrlk wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

That sounds like a whole lot of effort. Just buy iCloud.

On a mac iirc the ftp setup is a checkbox in system settings. Less friction than logging into icloud even.

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

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Post by kjkjadksj »

squarefoot wrote: post #22
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…

It takes so much time and effort though. It would really be a labor of love to take up someones abandoned piece of work thats probably got deep structural issues if the author decided to pack up and leave already.

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

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Post by kjkjadksj »

1over137 wrote: post #40
stavros wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

There's almost always security issues to maintain. Software is never "done".

If only OS vendors like apple thought the same and actually updated the cli tooling

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

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Post by bayindirh »

martinbaun wrote: post #30

I recently started using SyncThing, it seems just perfect to share between two people. Maybe I'll put it on a server as well so we can sync without being online.

I use syncthing between three different systems and it’s great for keeping multiple systems in sync. One of them takes daily backups of the shares, so I have time-machine like backups too.

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

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Post by martinbaun »

noirbot wrote: post #32
martinbaun wrote: post #30

I recently started using SyncThing, it seems just perfect to share between two people. Maybe I'll put it on a server as well so we can sync without being online.

It's definitely pretty nice, but the ergonomics of it for someone that's not that good with computers can be a little hard. I've gotten synced folders into bad states before that took a long time to fix. It's also kinda awkward having to send over a nominally private and very long ID string to set up the share in the first place.

hey Noirbot, I haven't used it for long. Can you tell me thei ssues you had a little in depth?
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