[teilo]

Because we have to deal with people as they are, and not as how we want them to be.

This is for sending large assets from party A to party B, where either the parties do not have access to a shared rsync-capable server, or they do not know how to use rsync. On a deadline, you can't afford to become a CLI trainer or require special software.

A common use case would involve service bureaus and creators. Trust me when I say that there are a hell of a lot of creators out there who would never be able to manage rsync. You want to make stuff like this drop-dead simple for people. That means a service that works in-browser.

[davehorne]

Couldn't have summarized it better myself. I like to think we are just making cloud services more accessible for non-technical people and adding a tax to that. There is always ways to get something cheaper by rigging up a setup yourself but for creators that is time that could be spent on creating instead of infrastructure or tooling.

[justinsaccount]

I was asking the person who said

> bash script that will chunk and scp the files to a central server, and if it fails a chunk, it leaves it in the directory for her to manually re-run

not responding to the linked post itself.