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Distributed messaging with BitTorrent Sync

• eob 12y ago
  If a permission-enabled filesystem was bolted on top of BTSync, this could result in all sorts of fascinating log-based applications.
• urza 12y ago
  Better use SyncThing[1] which is opensource including protocol specification. There is also project Pulse [2] using syncthing as engine for something maybe similar to the linked article.. [1] http://syncthing.net/ http://syncthing.net/ [2] https://ind.ie/pulse/ https://ind.ie/pulse/
  • jamesgeck0 12y ago
    The SyncThing project partnered with ind.ie and started rebranding itself a few months ago. SyncThing and Pulse are the same thing, even though the old domain is still up. It's a terrible name change, imho. You might be thinking of Heartbeat [1]? It's a social network built on Pulse. 1. https://ind.ie/heartbeat/ https://ind.ie/heartbeat/
    • amirmc 12y ago
      Not anymore. SyncThing will remain as SyncThing and Pulse will be a fork. https://discourse.syncthing.net/t/syncthing-is-still-syncthing/1372 https://discourse.syncthing.net/t/syncthing-is-still-syncthi...
• stevedekorte 12y ago
  Is BitTorrent Sync open source so it can be audited?
  • eosrei 12y ago
    No. BitTorrent Sync is closed source: "BitTorrent Sync by BitTorrent, Inc is a proprietary peer-to-peer file synchronization tool available for Windows, Mac, Linux, Android, iOS, Windows Phone and BSD." src: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BitTorrent_Sync https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BitTorrent_Sync Check out Tox for FOSS peer to peer, distributed, multimedia messaging: https://tox.im/ https://tox.im/