Re:Dropbox Could Have One of 2017’s Most Interesting IPOs
by 4rtemis on Wednesday January 04, 2017 @04:47PM
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I agree, and by no means is it a replacement, but https://syncthing.net is pretty damn interesting if you want to control your own data. https://www.syncany.org [now abandonded] was a cool twist on the idea using cloud storage in a secure way.
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Re:Dropbox Could Have One of 2017’s Most Interesting IPOs
by LeoPanthera on Wednesday January 04, 2017 @05:03PM
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I've been using SyncThing for a few years now and I'm mildly surprised that it is not more popular.
Though every time they release a new major version it breaks compatibility with the older major versions and this happens quite often. They need to stop doing that if they want mainstream adoption.
Re:Dropbox Could Have One of 2017’s Most Interesting IPOs
by danieldk on Thursday January 05, 2017 @04:18AM
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I think SyncThing also has the wrong model for mainstream adoption: you have to fiddle with host keys that you need to add to every peer. Bittorrent/Resilio Sync's model of using shared RW/RO/encrypted keys per share is much more intuitive.
There seems to be one open source project that aims to implement Resilio Sync's model: