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I would love to try it but it is proprietary and closed-source. So far I am very happy with Syncthing, mostly missing public shares.

by aw3c2 12y ago

benoliver999 12y ago
Agreed. I keep BTSync running but syncthing is the place to be. Public shares would be great. I know someone who distrubutes a podcast via BTSync, it'd be lovely to see that in syncthing.
higherpurpose 12y ago
I would agree, but I find Sync's interface so much easier to use (and to explain to others). I hope the SyncThing guys keep working on that. I also don't want a command prompt window to stay open while I'm using the app...Syncthing still feels too developer-centric rather than consumer-centric to me.
- bjpirt 12y ago
  This might be of interest for getting rid of that command prompt window: https://discourse.syncthing.net/t/keeping-syncthing-running-mac-os-x-launchdaemon/407 https://discourse.syncthing.net/t/keeping-syncthing-running-...
- hobarrera 12y ago
  I don't see any prompt when running syncthing. You're probably running it manually (eg: typing `syncthing` into a terminal). The package for your OS probably contains something to run it as a daemon (systemd.service / rc.d / launchd / whatever).
urza 12y ago
I'll just add the link here for people who dont know Syncthing http://syncthing.net/ http://syncthing.net/
- _lce0 12y ago
  Thanks for share! I'm tying Syncthing and so far it's been really good experience -- this's what I've found .. - it takes a bunch of configuration to sync a folder phone <-> computer, but nothing too hard. - it polls for changes after X seconds. - on every device, it setups a local web server; opt-out feature not available on mobile - folders have two modes: master/slave -- a change on a master will be push to all slaves; slave will prevent global delete - the mobile app crashes trying to sync via 3g Also, reading the log output, I've seen this .. [RECNG] 18:53:26 INFO: Starting global discovery announcements I'm aware that could be disabled --that's not the point-- but I wonder what information those publish, how are transferred, and more importantly, where are posted?
newman314 12y ago
AFAIK, syncthing still does not support the use case of shared 1Password. https://github.com/syncthing/syncthing/issues/220 https://github.com/syncthing/syncthing/issues/220 BTSync seems to be handling this for now.
- urda 12y ago
  Oh god that's a pretty serious issue. I was really excited about checking it out too, I'll wait.
patcon 12y ago
I held out for the longest time on those grounds, and then finally tried it and it blew me away so much that I've compromised for this one tool

I would love to try it but it is proprietary and closed-source. So far I am very happy with Syncthing, mostly missing public shares.

by aw3c2 12y ago

I would love to try it but it is proprietary and closed-source. So far I am very happy with Syncthing, mostly missing public shares.

benoliver999 12y ago

Agreed. I keep BTSync running but syncthing is the place to be. Public shares would be great. I know someone who distrubutes a podcast via BTSync, it'd be lovely to see that in syncthing.

higherpurpose 12y ago

I would agree, but I find Sync's interface so much easier to use (and to explain to others). I hope the SyncThing guys keep working on that. I also don't want a command prompt window to stay open while I'm using the app...Syncthing still feels too developer-centric rather than consumer-centric to me.

bjpirt 12y ago
This might be of interest for getting rid of that command prompt window: https://discourse.syncthing.net/t/keeping-syncthing-running-mac-os-x-launchdaemon/407 https://discourse.syncthing.net/t/keeping-syncthing-running-...
hobarrera 12y ago
I don't see any prompt when running syncthing. You're probably running it manually (eg: typing `syncthing` into a terminal). The package for your OS probably contains something to run it as a daemon (systemd.service / rc.d / launchd / whatever).

urza 12y ago

I'll just add the link here for people who dont know Syncthing http://syncthing.net/ http://syncthing.net/

_lce0 12y ago
Thanks for share! I'm tying Syncthing and so far it's been really good experience -- this's what I've found .. - it takes a bunch of configuration to sync a folder phone <-> computer, but nothing too hard. - it polls for changes after X seconds. - on every device, it setups a local web server; opt-out feature not available on mobile - folders have two modes: master/slave -- a change on a master will be push to all slaves; slave will prevent global delete - the mobile app crashes trying to sync via 3g Also, reading the log output, I've seen this .. [RECNG] 18:53:26 INFO: Starting global discovery announcements I'm aware that could be disabled --that's not the point-- but I wonder what information those publish, how are transferred, and more importantly, where are posted?

newman314 12y ago

AFAIK, syncthing still does not support the use case of shared 1Password. https://github.com/syncthing/syncthing/issues/220 https://github.com/syncthing/syncthing/issues/220 BTSync seems to be handling this for now.

urda 12y ago
Oh god that's a pretty serious issue. I was really excited about checking it out too, I'll wait.

patcon 12y ago

I held out for the longest time on those grounds, and then finally tried it and it blew me away so much that I've compromised for this one tool