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> initiate a connection via CLI and get a simple URL to share

https://webwormhole.io does this, see the CLI link at the bottom. Just tested it myself with a small file.

This does look quite close to what I wanted. Thank you. Unfortunately, it also looks to no longer be under development.

It says that the last commit is from 2 years ago. Is it because it is completed, or because it really is no longer under development?

If it were completed, the author should have closed/rejected every issue and pull request and removed this large warning at the top of the README:

> THIS PROJECT IS STILL IN EARLY DEVELOPMENT IT USES EXPERIMENTAL CRYPTOGRAPHIC LIBRARIES AND IT HAS NOT HAD ANY KIND OF SECURITY OR CRYPTOGRAPHY REVIEW THIS SOFTWARE MIGHT BE BROKEN AND UNSAFE

Plus, install instructions are outdated. As soon as I tried them, `go` complained of using a deprecated method.

So everything points to it no longer being under development.

Not much development can be done about experimental cryptography, you just use it and that's all. Cryptographic review can't be written either. Also you said you don't want much cryptography.

> Not much development can be done about experimental cryptography

That’s not the bit that matters, it’s the “this project is still in early development” and “this software might be broken”. Those are the things which hint at the project not being done.

Send a pull request and I will review it personally. :P

i'm the author. i keep a close eye on it for any security issues but i'm not adding any new features, hence the lack of commits.

i also obviously maintain the instance on https://webwormhole.io/.

Thanks for maintaining it! You might want to update the CLI instructions to use "go install" as the current command doesn't work.

That is what I thought. Thank you for clarifying.

It wasn’t the lack of commits which made me think this was abandoned, but everything else (outdated instructions, issues and pull requests open with no reply, giant warning at the top of the README…).

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43351944

Yeah, the installation instructions should probably be updated at the very least, and perhaps that warning should be adjusted as well.

Yours is the only tool I found that supports both web + command-line use. But it seems very dead.

At the very least you should update those instructions if you want people to think otherwise.

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