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Obligatory mention of Syncthing, which had .stignore file for a while [0]. It's open source, and you can selfhost in; but the downside comparing to Dropbox is t
by karlicoss 7y ago
Obligatory mention of Syncthing, which had .stignore file for a while [0]. It's open source, and you can selfhost in; but the downside comparing to Dropbox is that you won't be able to access your files if your computers are off.
[0] https://docs.syncthing.net/users/ignoring.html https://docs.syncthing.net/users/ignoring.html
- bad_user 7y agoRecommending Syncthing kind of misses the point for many Dropbox users. I want cloud storage that's hosted on infrastructure that's not mine, because I don't trust myself to keep it redundant and up to date, a perpetual security risk. Even if I could setup a local LAN storage device at home and keep it always on and available, it's a nuisance and I don't want it. Even more, when accessing files, I don't necessarily want to download them locally. If I have photos or documents, I want to search them or browse them without downloading entire folders locally. And I browse files on my iPhone quite often too, I need a good iPhone app. My only problem with Dropbox is one of security, as it misses end to end encryption, but then again, the files wouldn't be as accessible if they did that, plus personally I think encryption should be local and app specific for it to be reliable, therefore I'm encrypting (via GPG mostly) the sensitive files that I need to encrypt.