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

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Post by noirbot »

brnt wrote: post #61
Cyphase wrote: post #55

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> Having the whitelist all peers on all peers is a chore. You don't have to do that with Syncthing. See https://docs.syncthing.net/users/introducer.html > The introducer feature lets a device automatically add new devices. When two devices connect they exchange a list of mutually shared folders and the devices connected to those shares. In the following example: > Local device L sets remote device R as an introducer.…

Thats not the same. It means to designate one device as 'primus inter pares', and what I like about Resilio and p2p that there isn't a 'server'. I don't have one! So then I could make all my devices introducers, which is really the same amount of work, plus adviced against because then no device can ever leave your network (remove it from one then all others will re-introduce). Dealing with devices is really not what…

This is mostly where I am. Syncthing is a great replacement for something like Dropbox for me to share things between my own computers and not have to care about file size or the like. It's not really a reasonable P2P file sharing option unless the other person already uses Syncthing for their own use case, or you can just get it set up for them and then hope it never breaks. Even then, it's only really reasonable if it's someone you plan to regularly need to send larger files to. For smaller files or one-time sends, there's better options.

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

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Post by [deleted] »

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.

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

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Post by mrehler »

prophesi wrote: post #42
scrlk wrote: post #18

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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

I was unaware there was copypasta on HN. I know this might be generally the sort of post that the site wants to avoid, but the phenomenon of copypasta within a given community still makes my heart smile a little bit.

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

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Post by Aachen »

kjkjadksj wrote: post #44
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.

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.

> Non tech folk use stuff like [messengers] to send things

Yes, and tech folks too, but what about if you're not already connected friends? You don't want to invite your entire audience at a conference to send them slides.

You either need to already have a website and say "click on News and find the entry for today", have them type over some long URL with perfect accuracy, or use a link shortener to the same effect. It always requires having hosting, unless there exists file sharing services. That's the problem these things solve.

Also mind that there are size limits in most messengers on the order of a few hundred megabytes. You don't run into them that often, but whatcha gonna do when you do? A dedicated file sharing service that supports in the gigabytes range solves that situation as well.

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

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Post by layer8 »

Aachen wrote: post #75
kjkjadksj wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

> Non tech folk use stuff like [messengers] to send things Yes, and tech folks too, but what about if you're not already connected friends? You don't want to invite your entire audience at a conference to send them slides. You either need to already have a website and say "click on News and find the entry for today", have them type over some long URL with perfect accuracy, or use a link shortener to the same effect.…

You SFTP your slides to your self-hosted webspace and share a link like https://www.mydomain.example/public/foo-talk-slides.pdf.

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

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Post by ianlevesque »

stavros wrote: post #39
1over137 wrote: post #37

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Oh cool, I didn't realize Firefox Send has survived via a community fork. No commits in 7 months though, that's a bit long...

Yes but it doesn't need more commits I guess, it does what it does very well.

That's probably what Maine thought as well https://apnews.com/article/maine-moveit-file-transfer-softwa...

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

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Post by IndySun »

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.

For a moment there I thought you were saying 'dang' (much vaunted hacker user) had shut them down.
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