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The essential feature that Syncthing as a Dropbox replacement lacks is public sharing. Although requested by many users throughout the years, the maintainers n
by qwezxcrty 3y ago
The essential feature that Syncthing as a Dropbox replacement lacks is public sharing.
Although requested by many users throughout the years, the maintainers never considered it seriously.
- p-e-w 3y agoAnd I'm glad they didn't. The mere existence of such a feature would make me worry about unintentionally enabling it and exposing private data as a result.
- layer8 3y agoYou don’t expose data just by enabling the sharing, because it’s only accessible via a URL containing a hash-like identifier that can’t be guessed. It’s not more realistic than someone guessing your Syncthing password.
- vorpalhex 3y agoUnfortunately this is not true. Your browser likes to send any URLs it comes across to indexing services. If you share the link via Discord or whatever, it'll be scrapped. This is also just very outside Syncthing's functionality.
- Dylan16807 3y ago> Unfortunately this is not true. Your browser likes to send any URLs it comes across to indexing services. If you share the link via Discord or whatever, it'll be scrapped. You still have to manually create the URL first. You don't need to worry about accidentally having everything exposed because the feature is enabled. > This is also just very outside Syncthing's functionality. The context was specifically "as a Dropbox replacement".
- cma 3y agoIt is a problem if you use Edge: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35703789 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35703789
- hitchdev 3y agoThis is probably better done via a different app. I sometimes use croc to do one time file sending.