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"Intranets are totally underutilized. How many people do you know who can reliably transfer personal files over a local area network? Not nearly as many as thos

by sjellis 10y ago

"Intranets are totally underutilized. How many people do you know who can reliably transfer personal files over a local area network? Not nearly as many as those who know how to use google or send an email... that's absurd to me, given how ancient of an application file sharing is." It's crazy to me that there AFIAK aren't AirDrop clones. That application alone would make this awesome, and it will probably just one of the big use cases for this. I'm also really pleased to see Mozilla producing this kind of innovation. I'm a Firefox user at home, and am starting to get really excited about Rust, but it has felt to me like the organization has been flailing for a while.

origami777 10y ago
I'm curious how you would use this. What files would you share and with who? I'm so used to sharing via cloud services and chat apps that I really don't know who or what I'd use this with. Just curious what situations this would come in handy for you.
- rjmunro 10y ago
  How about a video of my kids with my Mum who has come to visit? Uploading and downloading the file to a cloud service will take a while. Many will reencode the video and loose quality. I then have to communicate a URL, rather than have my mum just look in a flyweb (or airdrop or whatever) place on her machine.
floatboth 10y ago
Of course there are AirDrop clones. http://instashareapp.com http://instashareapp.com — oh wow their current slogan is "better AirDrop for mobile & desktop"! There are also open source WebRTC based ones like https://github.com/RobinLinus/snapdrop https://github.com/RobinLinus/snapdrop
- sjellis 10y ago
  I wasn't aware of SnapDrop, so thank you for that. I'm aggressively uninterested in proprietary desktop software these days, outside of work.
plausibility 10y ago
>It's crazy to me that there AFIAK aren't AirDrop clones. Little know, but there is! Snapdrop[1] does this via WebRTC. Pretty nifty, but I've rarely ever seen it mentioned or used. Solves the XKCD problem, at least for intranet stuff. [1] https://snapdrop.net https://snapdrop.net + https://github.com/RobinLinus/snapdrop https://github.com/RobinLinus/snapdrop

by sjellis 10y ago

origami777 10y ago

I'm curious how you would use this. What files would you share and with who? I'm so used to sharing via cloud services and chat apps that I really don't know who or what I'd use this with. Just curious what situations this would come in handy for you.

rjmunro 10y ago
How about a video of my kids with my Mum who has come to visit? Uploading and downloading the file to a cloud service will take a while. Many will reencode the video and loose quality. I then have to communicate a URL, rather than have my mum just look in a flyweb (or airdrop or whatever) place on her machine.

floatboth 10y ago

Of course there are AirDrop clones. http://instashareapp.com http://instashareapp.com — oh wow their current slogan is "better AirDrop for mobile & desktop"! There are also open source WebRTC based ones like https://github.com/RobinLinus/snapdrop https://github.com/RobinLinus/snapdrop

sjellis 10y ago
I wasn't aware of SnapDrop, so thank you for that. I'm aggressively uninterested in proprietary desktop software these days, outside of work.

plausibility 10y ago

>It's crazy to me that there AFIAK aren't AirDrop clones. Little know, but there is! Snapdrop[1] does this via WebRTC. Pretty nifty, but I've rarely ever seen it mentioned or used. Solves the XKCD problem, at least for intranet stuff. [1] https://snapdrop.net https://snapdrop.net + https://github.com/RobinLinus/snapdrop https://github.com/RobinLinus/snapdrop