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Last checkin four years ago and README says „looking for a new maintainer“. Is this abandonware?
by moontear 3y ago
Last checkin four years ago and README says „looking for a new maintainer“. Is this abandonware?
- h4l0 3y agoDemo page also returns an error from Heroku.
- causi 3y agoI've seen probably four or five different brilliant file transfer solutions that totally solved the person to person file transfer problem posted to HN and every dang one of them was shut down or abandoned.
- theblazehen 3y agoIt's unfortunately not FOSS, but I quite like https://wormhole.app/ https://wormhole.app/ - It's client side encrypted and P2P when possible
- kilroy123 3y agoAgreed. That's my favorite as well.
- feross 3y agoOne of the two creators of https://wormhole.app https://wormhole.app here :) Now that we’ve shifted our company’s focus to https://socket.dev https://socket.dev, I’d love to open source Wormhole. I’m quite proud of the code - I’ve worked on P2P and file transfer systems for so so long that I think this might be some of the best code I’ve worked on. It’s just a matter of finding the time, but I expect this will be open source eventually.
- ckcheng 3y agoPairDrop works: https://pairdrop.net/ https://pairdrop.net/ https://github.com/schlagmichdoch/PairDrop https://github.com/schlagmichdoch/PairDrop Other alternatives: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38915909 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38915909
- XorNot 3y agoI'm self-hosting Pairdrop on my home network. It's a great solution to the problem of moving files around in an inhomogenous device environment".
- causi 3y agoWhat's the difference between inhomogenous and heterogenous?
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- stavros 3y agoI've been using Send, which I really like: https://github.com/timvisee/send https://github.com/timvisee/send
- 1over137 3y agoOh cool, I didn't realize Firefox Send has survived via a community fork. No commits in 7 months though, that's a bit long...
- stavros 3y agoYes but it doesn't need more commits I guess, it does what it does very well.
- ianlevesque 3y agoThat's probably what Maine thought as well https://apnews.com/article/maine-moveit-file-transfer-software-breach-a9fe2cc1c826e55c2b5cdeb538e9b9b6 https://apnews.com/article/maine-moveit-file-transfer-softwa...
- rbut 3y agoWe use PsiTransfer [1] in docker. Recently updated, so not abandonware. Serves our needs really well. [1] https://github.com/psi-4ward/psitransfer https://github.com/psi-4ward/psitransfer
- skottenborg 3y agoI can recommend PicoShare which I've been self-hosting for a while. It's a couple of years old now and still maintained. Also, it's very simple and allows for guests too. https://github.com/mtlynch/picoshare https://github.com/mtlynch/picoshare
- 1over137 3y agoSo do guests need an account?
- skottenborg 3y agoNo, you can just create guest link for single use.
- savrajsingh 3y agoSharedrop.io ?
- ajsnigrutin 3y agoApache is still maintaned, so is nginx... just throw the file into a folder accessible by the webserver (within documentroot), and you're done :)
- nurettin 3y agoThis is what I do. But these projects give you uploading, hash url generation and thumbnail previews as well, if you care about such things.
- imiric 3y agoI use `python -m http.server` on the sender side, and https://github.com/Densaugeo/uploadserver https://github.com/Densaugeo/uploadserver on the receiver side if Python or the network is problematic to setup on the sender. This is simple and works well for my use cases, since I don't have a need for those features you mention. The only feature I miss is encryption, which could be done via an SSH tunnel with a bit more work, but I usually don't bother if I'm on my home LAN.
- scrlk 3y agoFor a Linux user, you can already build such a system yourself quite trivially by getting an FTP account, mounting it locally with curlftpfs, and then using SVN or CVS on the mounted filesystem. From Windows or Mac, this FTP account could be accessed through built-in software.
- quesera 3y ago> "getting an FTP account" There are myriad options if you get a server of some kind. A webserver is even easier to get, and to share, than an FTP server. That's not the challenge these projects attempt to meet.
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- notso411 3y agoThat sounds like a whole lot of effort. Just buy iCloud.
- prophesi 3y agoFor context, this is a parody of the infamous https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224
- mrehler 3y agoI was unaware there was copypasta on HN. I know this might be generally the sort of post that the site wants to avoid, but the phenomenon of copypasta within a given community still makes my heart smile a little bit.
- kjkjadksj 3y agoBecause the problem doesn’t exist. Non tech folk use stuff like imessage to send things and rarely deal with large files at all beyond images or video. That works fine for them. Tech people use proven existing tooling like rsync or ftp. The only market that exist for this I’d guess is resumeware which explains why these projects are all built then abandoned.
- Aachen 3y ago> Non tech folk use stuff like [messengers] to send things Yes, and tech folks too, but what about if you're not already connected friends? You don't want to invite your entire audience at a conference to send them slides. You either need to already have a website and say "click on News and find the entry for today", have them type over some long URL with perfect accuracy, or use a link shortener to the same effect. It always requires having hosting, unless there exists file sharing services. That's the problem these things solve. Also mind that there are size limits in most messengers on the order of a few hundred megabytes. You don't run into them that often, but whatcha gonna do when you do? A dedicated file sharing service that supports in the gigabytes range solves that situation as well.
- layer8 3y agoYou SFTP your slides to your self-hosted webspace and share a link like https://www.mydomain.example/public/foo-talk-slides.pdf https://www.mydomain.example/public/foo-talk-slides.pdf.
- reactordev 3y agoSure, only if https://icantfindanametoregistertosavemylife.com https://icantfindanametoregistertosavemylife.com wasn’t taken.
- layer8 3y agoLots of available choices: https://www.checkdomain.net/en/domains/search/?domain=reactordev https://www.checkdomain.net/en/domains/search/?domain=reacto... And we were presuming self-hosting anyway.
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- IndySun 3y agoFor a moment there I thought you were saying 'dang' (much vaunted hacker user) had shut them down.