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> [Has] one very valid use case left: easy file sharing, especially for shared hosting. Nope. Nope. Nope. Not easy. Not secure. Not user friendly. Not anything

> [Has] one very valid use case left: easy file sharing, especially for shared hosting. Nope. Nope. Nope. Not easy. Not secure. Not user friendly. Not anything good. Have an iPhone and need to FTP something? Don't have installation rights on your Windows workstation and need to FTP something? Unpleasant if not confusing as all hell. Dropbox or a Dropbox-like program is significantly easier to get people on board with. Any "ecosystem" built around FTP is rotten to the core. Blow it up and get rid of it as soon as you can. Some vendors insist on using FTP because reasons, but those reasons are always laziness. I can't be the only one that would prefer they use ssh/scp/rsync with actual keys so I can be certain the entity uploading a file is actually them and not some random dude who sniffed the plain-text password off the wire.

Spooky23 10y ago
Huh? Windows explorer has FTP built into the shell. As does every other desktop OS. If you care about file integrity, you want to out of band to verify the signatures on the binary anyway. Dropbox is blocked in most commercial networks and offers no assurance of anything.
- astrodust 10y ago
  Yes, I'm sure walking your accounting department through how to use the command-line FTP tool in Windows is going to work out fantastically well. Versus drag and drop file to this page. There you go. It's uploading. That's why I said Dropbox or a Dropbox-like service, of which there are hundreds. Microsoft SharePoint is but one example.
  - sp332 10y ago
    Not that shell. The UI shell. Explorer. You can browse FTP sites just like network file systems, including drag and drop.
  - Spooky23 10y ago
    Go to Start->Run. Type ftp://ftp-site/path/to/file. Drag and drop to your hearts content.
    - JBReefer 10y ago
      When I worked ftp (with accounting departments ironically), the advice was not to do that because the client often corrupted files.

Spooky23 10y ago

Huh? Windows explorer has FTP built into the shell. As does every other desktop OS. If you care about file integrity, you want to out of band to verify the signatures on the binary anyway. Dropbox is blocked in most commercial networks and offers no assurance of anything.

astrodust 10y ago
Yes, I'm sure walking your accounting department through how to use the command-line FTP tool in Windows is going to work out fantastically well. Versus drag and drop file to this page. There you go. It's uploading. That's why I said Dropbox or a Dropbox-like service, of which there are hundreds. Microsoft SharePoint is but one example.
- sp332 10y ago
  Not that shell. The UI shell. Explorer. You can browse FTP sites just like network file systems, including drag and drop.
- Spooky23 10y ago
  Go to Start->Run. Type ftp://ftp-site/path/to/file. Drag and drop to your hearts content.
  - JBReefer 10y ago
    When I worked ftp (with accounting departments ironically), the advice was not to do that because the client often corrupted files.