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I made a video about copyparty, the selfhosted fileserver I've been making for the past 5 years.

The main focus of the video is the features, but it also touches upon configuration. Was hoping it would be easier to follow than the readme on github... not sure how well that went, but hey :D

This video is also available to watch on the copyparty demo server, as a high-quality AV1 file and a lower-quality h264.

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[–] LSNLDN@slrpnk.net 4 points 2 days ago (3 children)

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

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[–] pwalker@discuss.tchncs.de 15 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (3 children)

you even mention ladybird as browser, nice 😎

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nice project! I'll check it out! I've also really enjoyed your replies here. it's obvious you really know your stuff. thanks!

[–] disobey2623@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I looked at the comparison for Seafile as that's the one I'm most familiar with. In my opinion Seafile's greatest strength is its encryption, but in your comparison you seem to see this as a negative as I assume this bullet refers to the encryption? "isolated on-disk file hierarchy, incompatible with other software. much worse than nextcloud in that regard"

[–] tripflag@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

the intention with that statement was that seafile, by default, places all the files inside its own proprietary file container thing, where the files are not easily accessible from the server's actual filesystem, using regular linux utilities. My knowledge of seafile is really minimal, so this could be wrong -- in which case I'll fix that right away! or, at the very least, try to clarify what I meant to avoid this confusion.

in case you happen to know -- are you aware if it's possible to use Seafile while having it just place all the files and folders on the disk like any other program would?

[–] Andres4NY@social.ridetrans.it 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

@tripflag @disobey2623 Your statement is correct; the way seafile stores files is in blocks (for de-duplication, apparently).

They offer a fuse extension that allows you to view stuff like a normal filesystem, though I've never tried it: https://manual.seafile.com/latest/extension/fuse/

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[–] 2xsaiko@discuss.tchncs.de 14 points 3 days ago (7 children)

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.

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[–] lemmyhavesome@lemmy.world 5 points 3 days ago

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

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

[–] atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works 10 points 3 days ago (1 children)

This looks great but I really wish it had SFTP.

[–] tripflag@lemmy.world 11 points 3 days ago

thanks for the vote, I hear ya :>

[–] Tiger@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 days ago

This looks great, nothing to check it out.

[–] nibbler@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 2 days ago
[–] twikz@sopuli.xyz 3 points 2 days ago

Now it would be interesting to setup a raspberry pi with harddrives plugged in the USB 3 ports💡

[–] jlh@lemmy.jlh.name 10 points 3 days ago (2 children)

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

[–] tripflag@lemmy.world 14 points 3 days ago (1 children)

As long as it's not causing any issues or drawbacks for modern python versions (and it isn't), I don't see any reason to do that -- on the contrary, I know people are running copyparty on retro equipment, so I'd very much prefer to keep it for as long as possible :>

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[–] Pika@rekabu.ru 7 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Alright, you bought me with this

Amazing presentation and nice that you have a demo!

[–] kayohtie@pawb.social 7 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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!

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[–] Admax@lemmy.world 8 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] irmadlad@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

I'll have to say that this is about one of the most detailed instructions I've seen, replete with copious screenshots. I'm going to have to give it a go just based on that. LOL

[–] gusgalarnyk@lemmy.world 7 points 3 days ago (3 children)

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?

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[–] tux0r@feddit.org 8 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Can we have Gopher support?

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[–] TedZanzibar@feddit.uk 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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!

[–] tripflag@lemmy.world 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I have a hunch that the true answer, to be honest, is "no" -- at least with the current UI as it is. I've come to terms with not being the best at making intuitive user interfaces, so I went all-in on making it poweruser-friendly and efficiency instead.

Yeah, there's the android app for sending files to the server, and it'll always send files to the same folder, so that part should be pretty solid. But actually grabbing files from the server, perhaps not so much. Not sure I'd risk it, but I'll leave the decision to you hehe

I'm not aware of any user-friendly android/iOS apps for connecting to a webdav / ftps / sftp server, but if those exist, then that would probably have been a good option!

[–] jhoward@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 2 days ago

Been using DAVx5 on Android with it (you don't set it up as a full account, just a WebDAV mount) and the full exported filesystem shows up in the android file browser (as a remote mount like google drive)

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