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by blacklight 895 days ago
Before trying it in my lab, could the author elaborate on what's its killer feature?

The README mentions that it's an alternative to both Dropbox and WeTransfer. My current alternative to Dropbox is Nextcloud, and my current alternative to WeTransfer is (formerly Mozilla) Send. What's the added value of YouTransfer compared to this solution?

I'm also put off by the fact that the README has a big "looking for a new maintainer" disclaimer on top, and the demo page doesn't even work. Sure, I could put enough effort into maintaining a project if I see its added value, but in this case it seems to be a product trying to sneak into a market where there are already viable and well-maintained open alternatives.

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How do you like Send and is it still maintained?

I also use Nextcloud but use the Floccus browser extension to sync bookmarks to Nextcloud. Works well when it works.

I really like Send, I'm not sure it's still maintained, but it works well, so I don't know what there is to maintain. It comes with a cli utility as well.

https://github.com/timvisee/send

There's almost always security issues to maintain. Software is never "done".
If only OS vendors like apple thought the same and actually updated the cli tooling
CLI tooling is macOS only, not iOS, visionOS, tvOS, etc. Somof course they don’t care. Just be happy they even keep it. ;)
Used this in the past, imagine WeTransfer, but you run it yourself. That’s it.