motivation - GamerDuck123/copyparty GitHub Wiki

project goals / philosophy

• inverse linux philosophy -- do all the things, and do an okay job
  • quick drop-in service to get a lot of features in a pinch
  • some of the alternatives might be a better fit for you
• run anywhere, support everything
  • as many web-browsers and python versions as possible
    • every browser should at least be able to browse, download, upload files
    • be a good emergency solution for transferring stuff between ancient boxes
  • minimal dependencies
    • but optional dependencies adding bonus-features are ok
    • everything being plaintext makes it possible to proofread for malicious code
  • no preparations / setup necessary, just run the sfx (which is also plaintext)
• adaptable, malleable, hackable
  • no build steps; modify the js/python without needing node.js or anything like that

becoming rich is specifically not a motivation, but if you wanna donate then see my github profile regarding donations for my FOSS stuff in general (also THANKS!)

notes

general notes:

• paper-printing is affected by dark/light-mode! use lightmode for color, darkmode for grayscale
  • because no browsers currently implement the media-query to do this properly orz

browser-specific:

• iPhone/iPad: use Firefox to download files
• Android-Chrome: increase "parallel uploads" for higher speed (android bug)
• Android-Firefox: takes a while to select files (their fix for ☝️)
• Desktop-Firefox: may use gigabytes of RAM if your files are massive seems to be OK now
• Desktop-Firefox: may stop you from unplugging USB flashdrives until you visit about:memory and click Minimize memory usage

server-os-specific:

• RHEL8 / Rocky8: you can run copyparty using /usr/libexec/platform-python

server notes:

• pypy is supported but regular cpython is faster if you enable the database