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The video are amazing. It's entertaining and explains everything so it's easily understood.

Sometimes I feel so new to setting up my own digital ecosystem because I look at a thing and think "that's so cool" but struggle to imagine it at home. So could someone help me understand.

This would be a replacement for something like Google Drive or Proton Drive? The actions I would use this for would be:

• sending files to friends
• managing a collection of files like PDFs, music, ISO's that could be accessible by my friends (or just my household)

So I would spin this up on my NAS or my main PC and replace those services and accomplish those actions using this software?

Are there other services or actions I'm missing? Am I misunderstanding the premise entirely?

Great job on something like this! I'll probably give it a whirl soon, I like Nextcloud but find it clunky sometimes because it's often a bit more than I need. Maybe breaking it up into Immich + this would help! Thank you for sharing your project!

One thing to note, your comparison against Nextcloud has a partially-incorrect point regarding file upload max size. The client does upload chunking, so is unaffected by the Cloudflare issue as well, but I believe the web client is still affected, just not the apps. https://docs.nextcloud.com/server/latest/admin_manual/configuration_files/big_file_upload_configuration.html#adjust-chunk-size-on-nextcloud-side

I suspect a few others may be as well, but I'm only familiar with the Nextcloud one because that's what I've been running, and discovered in making sure I could still upload video files recorded while out and about.

Also love that it looks like a simpler install!

Alright, you bought me with this

Amazing presentation and nice that you have a demo!

I've been using copyparty for months, and it's just been an absolute gem. and the fact there are even iOS shortcuts to upload things you stumble across while doomscrolling is just icing on top.

Haven't looked at the project yet, but that's just the greatest name for a fileserver...

This is insane. I think I'd use ten different applications and still not cover these features. And I can host this. Using a single python file.

Very sleek project. The language switcher bit was brilliant hahaha. Seriously, good job.

I have a samba fileserver behind wireguard. Would copyparty be an improvement over samba?

Thank you so very much. I needed to transfer some files locally yesterday and didn't have a NAS set up. So I thought I would quickly set up a samba share on my pop-os media server so my spouse (windows) and I (mint) could swap/store files on the fly in the future. It took me 25 minutes and I almost gave up because my config file was having issues.

This looks sooooo much nicer. May every road rise up to meet you

This looks sick. Thanks for making and sharing it!

This is very impressive and I'm highly likely to give it a whirl. My question is, though: would it be something that my very non-tech savvy wife could use?

Eg. I'm thinking setup the app on her phone with a default location and when she asks me for a file I can just tell her that I've "put it in the app", and she'll be able to easily retrieve it. Also same thing but vice versa, though the video seems to cover that via the Android share menu...

Again, super impressive. Good job!

Have been playing around with it for a bit and it's AMAZING.

Looks really cool. Might spin up a test bed to try.

I’m in the market for a self hosted file server so I can use it as a destination for website backups. Absolutely going to give this a look next week. Thanks for posting about it!

This is cool. Idk if it’s just me but the h.264 version of your video has no sound!

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Looks fantastic, I'll actually be trying this. Love how it doesn't lock my files into some obscure format like seafiles.

OMG I just posted this to lemmy and saw it had already been posted. Great work! Amazing video!!