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If BTsync ever goes open source or SyncThing ever achieves the quality and functionality of BTSync, then achieving autonomy over our data will be easy. I use B

If BTsync ever goes open source or SyncThing ever achieves the quality and functionality of BTSync, then achieving autonomy over our data will be easy. I use BitTorrent Sync with my FreeNas box. It's absolutely amazing. I am able to completely subvert the cloud and have all my data synced across devices. The mobile app is a user-friendly delight. I was able to share 15 GBs of vacation videos with 10 of my non-techie friends by sending them a read only key to a shared folder. All of them got it right away with no technical questions or issues. Most importantly, I have all my photos and videos synced as I take them. This means I don't lose precious photos from a trip if my phone accidentally falls in the ocean. My phone, laptop, NAS, iPad, all have my photos backed up providing good data redundancy. No cloud services involved, no risk accidental publishing something private, no risk of an account hack, and no expensive data storage plans. The only problem is I have to trust BitTorrent's proprietary software to do the heavy lifting for me. This is why I want the SyncThing project to catch up.

bcrack 11y ago
In what ways do you find SyncThing lacking when compared to BTSync? I started using it for work (cautiously) a couple of moths ago and have found it to be very similar (with respect to stability and ease of use) with BTSync, if not superior. Note though that I haven't used BTSync since its first days.
- artlogic 11y ago
  My guess is this: > I was able to share 15 GBs of vacation videos with 10 of my non-techie friends by sending them a read only key to a shared folder. All of them got it right away with no technical questions or issues. I appreciate SyncThing's security first stance, but it would be incredibly helpful if it was a bit easier to share specific synced things with non-techies.
  - Liru 11y ago
    This is the one thing that I was looking for in an alternative to Sync. It made me sad that the main alternative to it didn't have this.
- baldfat 11y ago
  1) Punching holes through Firewalls - BTSync has the strong upper hand for that. 2) Much easier share structure. Synchthing still feels very fiddly compared to BTSync I had a large corporate job that BTSync would do but I dug in my heels and tried out SynchThing and I had to buy licences for BTSync. It is working out very well.
- autoreleasepool 11y ago
  The exceptional mobile app (iOS client) is the platform's killer feature IMO. A lot of folks use their phones as their main computer outside of work these days. I couldn't find an equivalent for SyncThing. Aside from that what I really like about it is: - consistent UI across platforms - unlimited folders - free - Web GUI for FreeNAS plugin is excellent - local downloads on the same network are FAST - share keys without needing approval - BitTorrent protocol - "It just works" (it really does) I have no experience with SyncThing. But to me, open source is the only thing SyncThing has going for it over BTSync. At least on paper.
carussell 11y ago
Fun fact: An open source[1] version of BTSync called Snakebite was introduced back in 2006, predating BTSync by 6-7 years.[2][3] These days, it's not well known at all, and the Internet seems to have mostly forgotten about it, but there it is. Van Jacobson made a couple of offhand references to Snakebite at a Google TechTalk he gave in 2006.[4] The student who created it went off to do international NGO work or something, but his co-conspirator ended up working at BitTorrent, Inc for a bit. I don't know what BTSync is like today, but a few years ago when the call for beta testers first went out, its UX as described at the time was more or less the same as the way Snakebite's web interface worked.[5] 1. http://sourceforge.net/projects/tristero/files/Snakebite/ http://sourceforge.net/projects/tristero/files/Snakebite/ 2. http://slashdot.org/story/06/08/29/0441202/new-auto-seeding-torrent-server-released http://slashdot.org/story/06/08/29/0441202/new-auto-seeding-... 3. http://www.webknowhow.net/news/news/060829SnakeBiteBittorentServer.html http://www.webknowhow.net/news/news/060829SnakeBiteBittorent... 4. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oCZMoY3q2uM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oCZMoY3q2uM 5. http://web.archive.org/web/20070320161111/http://actlab.tv/snakebite_guide.html http://web.archive.org/web/20070320161111/http://actlab.tv/s...
simonebrunozzi 11y ago
What you just built for yourself is something that should become an open source product, and many people would use it.

bcrack 11y ago

In what ways do you find SyncThing lacking when compared to BTSync? I started using it for work (cautiously) a couple of moths ago and have found it to be very similar (with respect to stability and ease of use) with BTSync, if not superior. Note though that I haven't used BTSync since its first days.

artlogic 11y ago
My guess is this: > I was able to share 15 GBs of vacation videos with 10 of my non-techie friends by sending them a read only key to a shared folder. All of them got it right away with no technical questions or issues. I appreciate SyncThing's security first stance, but it would be incredibly helpful if it was a bit easier to share specific synced things with non-techies.
- Liru 11y ago
  This is the one thing that I was looking for in an alternative to Sync. It made me sad that the main alternative to it didn't have this.
baldfat 11y ago
1) Punching holes through Firewalls - BTSync has the strong upper hand for that. 2) Much easier share structure. Synchthing still feels very fiddly compared to BTSync I had a large corporate job that BTSync would do but I dug in my heels and tried out SynchThing and I had to buy licences for BTSync. It is working out very well.
autoreleasepool 11y ago
The exceptional mobile app (iOS client) is the platform's killer feature IMO. A lot of folks use their phones as their main computer outside of work these days. I couldn't find an equivalent for SyncThing. Aside from that what I really like about it is: - consistent UI across platforms - unlimited folders - free - Web GUI for FreeNAS plugin is excellent - local downloads on the same network are FAST - share keys without needing approval - BitTorrent protocol - "It just works" (it really does) I have no experience with SyncThing. But to me, open source is the only thing SyncThing has going for it over BTSync. At least on paper.

carussell 11y ago

Fun fact: An open source[1] version of BTSync called Snakebite was introduced back in 2006, predating BTSync by 6-7 years.[2][3] These days, it's not well known at all, and the Internet seems to have mostly forgotten about it, but there it is. Van Jacobson made a couple of offhand references to Snakebite at a Google TechTalk he gave in 2006.[4] The student who created it went off to do international NGO work or something, but his co-conspirator ended up working at BitTorrent, Inc for a bit. I don't know what BTSync is like today, but a few years ago when the call for beta testers first went out, its UX as described at the time was more or less the same as the way Snakebite's web interface worked.[5] 1. http://sourceforge.net/projects/tristero/files/Snakebite/ http://sourceforge.net/projects/tristero/files/Snakebite/ 2. http://slashdot.org/story/06/08/29/0441202/new-auto-seeding-torrent-server-released http://slashdot.org/story/06/08/29/0441202/new-auto-seeding-... 3. http://www.webknowhow.net/news/news/060829SnakeBiteBittorentServer.html http://www.webknowhow.net/news/news/060829SnakeBiteBittorent... 4. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oCZMoY3q2uM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oCZMoY3q2uM 5. http://web.archive.org/web/20070320161111/http://actlab.tv/snakebite_guide.html http://web.archive.org/web/20070320161111/http://actlab.tv/s...

simonebrunozzi 11y ago

What you just built for yourself is something that should become an open source product, and many people would use it.