Show HN: Ffftp – A Minimal FTP Client Built on Electron

Re:Show HN: Ffftp – A Minimal FTP Client Built on Electron by mitchas on Wednesday December 07, 2016 @01:28PM (#13124846)

I made this because I just switched from Mac to PC. On Mac I was using Transmit, which was super easy to use and looked pretty good.

I don't use FTP frequently - I just needed something basically to upload/download files.

After switching to windows, I couldn't find any decent FTP clients I liked. I tried Filezilla, Winscp, Cyberduck. They're all too busy and look like they're straight from XP... so I made this.

I guess I'm just not sure what you're talking about when you say "High Quality GUIs" when talking about Windows FTP clients specifically.

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Re:Show HN: Ffftp – A Minimal FTP Client Built on Electron by problems on Wednesday December 07, 2016 @02:27PM (#13125391)

Filezilla and WinSCP are precisely the apps I was referring to. "Straight from XP". Pfft. Windows explorer maintains about the same look in most places as well as most other windows applications. Not everything needs to be changed for the sake of change every few months.

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Re:Show HN: Ffftp – A Minimal FTP Client Built on Electron by fredsted on Wednesday December 07, 2016 @01:32PM (#13124888)

This one looks pretty good: http://www.frenchfrysoftware.com/steed/

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Re:Show HN: Ffftp – A Minimal FTP Client Built on Electron by SyneRyder on Wednesday December 07, 2016 @01:42PM (#13124996)

That looks really good. Never heard of those folks before, but looking at their website & blog, I get a similar vibe to Panic Software (the Mac developers of Transmit). At the very least they seem to care about design. Thanks for the link!

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Re:Show HN: Ffftp – A Minimal FTP Client Built on Electron by heywire on Wednesday December 07, 2016 @01:56PM (#13125122)

Strange, our McAfee firewall flags that site as containing malware.

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