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Hello!

Its been just about a year since someone forwarded this post to me, and I just want to say, I ABSOLUTELY LOVE COPYPARTY

I've kinda started using it for everything. It may have gotten out-of-hand...

A short list:

• I use it as the primary file sharing server for a small community I help run
• I use it as a personal file storage system with search (I wrote a custom plug-in for it that adds content-based search via meilisearch)
• Perhaps most-unhinged, I started using it the primary network-based file system on my LAN. It has so many more useful features for this than NFS, SSHFS, and Samba that it just became the obvious choice. I set up a webDAV share with a username/password and then mount it via systemd-mount and rclone, and its been working shockingly well.

Thank you so much for making copyparty, and thank you for posting this <3

You made this on your phone on the bus ride to and from work.

I cleaned the cat box yesterday and considered that an accomplishment.

Fuck.

Your readme looks super in depth, thanks for that! I haven't watched the video yet but will later.

I didn't see it mentioned from a quick glance, but is either sftp or ftps supported?

Clearly a labour of love 👍

Maybe support for some music streaming apps (subsonic?) would be cool?

Hey fellow scener, cool project!

Just a few thoughts/questions:

• BTRFS and ZFS support real deduplication via copy on write, and would eliminate all current disadvantages of symlink and hardlink deduplication. It just works.
• Why have it be one huge python source file? This is a serious code smell imo, and something you really should avoid doing as this can be a major maintenance burden.

The fact you mention security features, without ever saying it's 'super secure' tells me you know a lot about what you're doing. I'm so sick of apps like this that start with "most secure app on the net" but you know they're delusional. Thank you, going to check this out.

Put out some in-depth docker instructions and this will be common use in a month. Good work.

Is there a way to help translate the UI.

I would like to help translate it into Danish.

you even mention ladybird as browser, nice 😎

Oh my god, this seems really good and closer to what I want than anything yet. Been looking for something to replace Nextcloud and found nothing good so I might take a look at this.

Holy shit this is so unbelievably full featured it's not even funny. This is going to rattle some big names. I wonder how long till they try to shut it down because it's better than anything commercially available.

I bumped into copyparty the other month when looking for a software that could let me transfer files to a friend with the ability to pause/resume. Didn't bother with it, tried another software instead. Never really got it to work so I gave up on it.

Bumped into the YouTube video today, decided to give copyparty a shot, damn sir you've written a fine piece of software. It's so easy to get up and configure. The UI is a bit janky, but charming at the same time. Thanks for all the hard work!

Thanks for making the video but also for providing non Youtube link. Maybe there is a PeerTube server that would enjoy hosting it.

This looks great but I really wish it had SFTP.

I would probably remove python 2 support, it was end of life when the project was started.

Everyone loves CP. Tell all your friends about CP.

I have a question, and I want to emphasise thar this is not criticism but a request for dive into technicalities.

In the video you mentioned copyparty has an one-way sync tool. Is there a good reason why it's not two-way, or is this just something you weren't motivated to do?

Oh my gawd what a README!! I'm on my phone and I was trying to scroll back to the top of it from the bottom and I just kept on scrolling... Holy shit I'm going to put this on my kanban board give it proper attention

Don't believe it. This is easily too good to be true.

I'm properly in awe at this project. Not only does it support a wide range of protocols and runs practically everywhere, but it can play audio, video, display images and has keyboard shortcut support ???

It's got everything I could think about and so much more.

I can't wait to try it out !

Thank you so much for your time and for making this open source.

Ho... Ly... Shit... This is great! The UI is a bit confusing at first but doesn't take long to get what's going on. I might even be disappointed with a UI revamp 😁 I can't believe how much functionality this has. It's already replacing some processes I have for mounting drives and backing up files. Maybe I missed something, but my only complaint would be the lack of an automatic one-way folder sync in the Party UP! app.

I'm blown away, great job!

Well done! This is exactly what I've been looking for! And it's fun to use and has an aesthetic that reminds me of browsing ftp servers back in the day. And these themes?! I love the whimsy mixed with actual usability.

And its a damn good file server so far: fast, easy to use, makes reasonable security choices, and accessible in the ways I want (rclone mount)

Can we have Gopher support?

Alright, you bought me with this

Amazing presentation and nice that you have a demo!

Elderly raspberry pi B [✓]

Large portable drive gathering dust [✓]

Guess I'm setting up a locally hosted file server in the near future.

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?

Look cool! I think you should consider putting a screenshot of the UI somewhere near the top of the README

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

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!