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Beyond file syncing and sharing, a new way to organize your files with extensible file properties and flexible views

30 mentions on Hacker News by 28 people: 5 stories, 25 comments · first 2013-01-09 · latest 2025-07-23

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  1. seafile is open source ( https://github.com/haiwen/seafile ), or at least was, when I looked at it years ago. Definitely a concern when the paper mentioned an acknowledge of the protocol downgrade as of 29th April 2024, yet the latest…
    comment by xarope · 2024-10-11 · in End-to-End Encrypted Cloud Storage in the Wild: A Broken Ecosystem
  2. …open core. They offer a managed hosting option, and you can also self-host. https://www.seafile.com https://github.com/haiwen/seafile Nextcloud is working on end-to-end encryption, but the feature is not yet stable. It is fully open…
    comment by commoner · 2020-01-22 · in Apple dropped plan for encrypting backups after FBI complained
  3. …remote files from their original location. [0] https://www.seafile.com/en/download/ [1] https://github.com/haiwen/seafile [2] https://manual.seafile.com/develop/data_model.html [3] https://owncloud.org/
    comment by herpderperator · 2019-05-16 · in Free Dropbox Accounts Now Only Sync to Three Devices
  4. …appear to take security seriously in any capacity as can be demonstrated by the maintainers here: https://github.com/haiwen/seafile/issues/350 , https://github.com/privacytoolsIO/privacytools.io/issues/490 Nextcloud is written in PHP an so…
    comment by replax · 2018-10-24 · in Ask HN: Self-hosted Alternatives to Dropbox?
  5. …a client a lot like the Dropbox client and sync away. And it is even mostly open source seafile.com https://github.com/haiwen/seafile
    comment by aroch · 2017-03-24 · in Dropbox on Mac now updates itself with a process in background
  6. …it shows you the activity in the project. For comparison, this is bad: https://github.com/haiwen/seafile/pulse Again, I'm biassed, so make your own conclusion, don't rely on mine. I'm just pointing the way.
    comment by jospoortvliet · 2016-11-10 · in Introducing the Nextcloud Box
  7. …really make me question their integrity and ability to deliver a secure piece of software. [1] https://github.com/haiwen/seafile/issues/666 [2] https://github.com/haiwen/seafile/issues/350
    comment by embik · 2016-06-02 · in Owncloud has been forked into Nextcloud
  8. …against using Seafile. Seafile stores a lot of metadata in clear text (including filenames): https://github.com/haiwen/seafile/issues/350 The developers know about it, the issue is 3 years old, this huge limitation is still not reflected…
    comment by Kunix · 2016-04-11 · in Pwncloud – Bad crypto in the Owncloud encryption module
  9. https://github.com/haiwen/seafile/issues/587#issuecomment-40... > We don't roll our own crypto. > There are two parts of the code base in which "we roll our own crypto": the transfer protocl and encrypted library. That's just ridiculous.
    comment by embik · 2016-04-11 · in Pwncloud – Bad crypto in the Owncloud encryption module
  10. …/dev/urandom. */ static unsigned char salt[8] = { 0xdb, 0x91, 0x45, 0xc3, 0x06, 0xc7, 0xcc, 0x26 }; https://github.com/haiwen/seafile/issues/587 Enough to understand if people writing this software know how to apply cryptography. This was…
    comment by dchest · 2016-04-11 · in Pwncloud – Bad crypto in the Owncloud encryption module
  11. …(except a small glitch in the last upgrade). For the community version, the source code is here : https://github.com/haiwen/seafile (see others haiwen projects). The Android client could be improved, but it does the job.
    comment by JohnIcare · 2016-04-11 · in Pwncloud – Bad crypto in the Owncloud encryption module
  12. …very old and EOL'd version of Django that has known security issues (currently v1.5.12, I believe). https://github.com/haiwen/seafile/issues/1502
    comment by reedloden · 2016-02-07 · in Encrypted libraries leak lots of information in Seafile
  13. …I'm hopeful a better version in something like Python emerges soon. The web interface of Seafile ( https://github.com/haiwen/seafile ) is written in Python/Django. The server is C, though.
    comment by bildung · 2015-09-12 · in Is it futile to un-Google?
  14. …means that changes are synced with a 30 second delay (and presumably bandwidth is wasted). See https://github.com/haiwen/seafile/issues/992 . I'm not a fan of Dropbox but at least the lag is only a few seconds, which I think is because the…
    comment by a3_nm · 2015-03-03 · in Dropbox accesses all the files in your PC?
  15. https://github.com/disk42com/disk42 == https://github.com/haiwen/seafile/releases/tag/v3.1.7 (almost 2 months out of date) https://github.com/disk42com/ccnet == https://github.com/haiwen/ccnet/tree/dd3f1fab491dfcec8b8ca30... (3 months out…
    comment by aw3c2 · 2014-12-12 · in Show HN: End-to-End Encrypted Cloud Storage. All Open Source
  16. https://github.com/haiwen/seafile/issues/350
    comment by nodata · 2014-05-13 · in Syncthing: Open Source Dropbox and BitTorrent Sync Replacement
  17. I did, and it did not inspire confidence. https://github.com/haiwen/seafile/issues/350
    comment by ef4 · 2014-05-12 · in Syncthing: Open Source Dropbox and BitTorrent Sync Replacement
  18. I like seafile too, but after doing some of my own review of the source ( https://github.com/haiwen/seafile/issues/350 ) I'm not willing to trust it on the open internet. For now I run seafile inside a private network behind a vpn. But I'd…
    comment by ef4 · 2014-05-12 · in Syncthing: Open Source Dropbox and BitTorrent Sync Replacement
  19. Components overview: https://github.com/haiwen/seafile/wiki/Seafile-server-compon... (Installed it yesterday on a debian LXC)
    comment by mverwijs · 2014-05-12 · in Syncthing: Open Source Dropbox and BitTorrent Sync Replacement
  20. …say this: If you aren't happy with Dropbox, here's something to look at. http://www.owncloud.org or https://github.com/haiwen/seafile
    comment by mindcrime · 2014-04-11 · in Our Commitment to your Rights and Privacy
  21. …and photos. Also has mobile and cross platform clients. And the best part is it's open-source: https://github.com/haiwen/seafile
    comment by limpangel · 2013-10-31 · in Clone Dropbox with a Raspberry Pi and BTSync
  22. Yeah, that sounds like a bug. I filed it: https://github.com/haiwen/seafile/issues/299
    comment by Skalman · 2013-07-16 · in Seafile
  23. Accidentally found it by wandering around the Chinese version of the site: https://github.com/haiwen/seafile
    comment by drdaeman · 2013-07-16 · in Seafile
  24. another dropbox alternative https://github.com/haiwen/seafile on you own servers
    comment by strobe · 2013-06-10 · in Wuala: Secure Cloud Storage
  25. the github project link: https://github.com/haiwen/seafile
    comment by freeplant · 2013-01-16 · in Seafile, the open source Dropbox alternative for teams