[kartickv]

What problem does this solve for the end-user that isn't already or better solved by Google Drive, Dropbox, or sharing in chat apps like Hangouts or WhatApp?

Or is it like, "Here is some cool technology!" without identifying a clear user need this solves, like Google Wave?

[josh2600]

Dropbox uses one key for all content...

Google drive means google can see all of your stuff...

Sharing in hangouts is just like drive...

WhatsApp isn't close to this robust...

Wave was just really far ahead of its time but you see the modern incarnation in google docs and paper. This is like the infra to build spideroak on your own hardware.

It's not the same as a service where you have to trust the operator.

[kartickv]

Seems niche. Most people trust at least one of the above operators.

[derefr]

How about MEGA? It's sort of like multi-key Dropbox.

Centralized, but not inherently so; you could stand up clones using its same API, and then create a discovery service mapping bucket names (users, whatever) to servers using that API.

[webmaven]

SpiderOak is a Zero-Knowledge service. You don't have to trust them.

[lars_francke]

And you shouldn't.

I wanted to link to various people who have experienced data loss in SpiderOak (me included) due to bugs in the client which have gone unsolved for at least three years.

But....they seem to have redesigned their homepage and the forums that used to be available seem to have gone.

Here is one example though: https://spekxvision.wordpress.com/2015/10/13/more-spideroak-...

So I can only talk from a personal perspective and my experience with their CTO and support team. I've lost data on multiple occasions due to bugs in the client. This data was not recoverable. I've since switched to Crashplan and am much happier.

[ansgri]

Agree, SpiderOak is far from good. Haven't yet experienced data loss, but their sync is very slow and, with custom synced folder (not the 'Hive' one) pretty unreliable.

From Crashplan's web page I don't see if they do file sync, what do you recommend for this domain? I'd use OneDrive, but supported Linux client is a must.

[lars_francke]

You're right. I use Crashplan for backup. Haven't really found a solution for sync that I like. Missing Linux client is a problem for me as well.

[mistermann]

> google docs and paper

Paper?

[repsilat]

Dropbox Paper. It's multiplayer Wordpad -- a reversion to the "big white space that (ironically) doesn't pretend to simulate sheets of printer paper," now with emojis.