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I would love to try it but it is proprietary and closed-source. So far I am very happy with Syncthing, mostly missing public shares.

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I'll just add the link here for people who dont know Syncthing

http://syncthing.net/

Thanks for share!

I'm tying Syncthing and so far it's been really good experience -- this's what I've found ..

- it takes a bunch of configuration to sync a folder phone <-> computer, but nothing too hard.

- it polls for changes after X seconds.

- on every device, it setups a local web server; opt-out feature not available on mobile

- folders have two modes: master/slave -- a change on a master will be push to all slaves; slave will prevent global delete

- the mobile app crashes trying to sync via 3g

Also, reading the log output, I've seen this ..

  [RECNG] 18:53:26 INFO: Starting global discovery announcements

I'm aware that could be disabled --that's not the point-- but I wonder what information those publish, how are transferred, and more importantly, where are posted?

I would agree, but I find Sync's interface so much easier to use (and to explain to others). I hope the SyncThing guys keep working on that. I also don't want a command prompt window to stay open while I'm using the app...Syncthing still feels too developer-centric rather than consumer-centric to me.

I don't see any prompt when running syncthing. You're probably running it manually (eg: typing `syncthing` into a terminal). The package for your OS probably contains something to run it as a daemon (systemd.service / rc.d / launchd / whatever).

This might be of interest for getting rid of that command prompt window:

https://discourse.syncthing.net/t/keeping-syncthing-running-...

Agreed. I keep BTSync running but syncthing is the place to be.

Public shares would be great. I know someone who distrubutes a podcast via BTSync, it'd be lovely to see that in syncthing.

AFAIK, syncthing still does not support the use case of shared 1Password.

https://github.com/syncthing/syncthing/issues/220

BTSync seems to be handling this for now.

Oh god that's a pretty serious issue.

I was really excited about checking it out too, I'll wait.

I held out for the longest time on those grounds, and then finally tried it and it blew me away so much that I've compromised for this one tool

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