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0 pointsmitchas9y ago0 comments

Basically. I get that there are several, but having just moved from developing on a mac to Windows, I didn't find one I liked. I just needed super basic - single pane.

Also I wasn't a fan of how every client looked like they were straight from XP. I used this as a way to get familiar with Electron, as well.

Lastly, it's open source so people can add whatever they want to it. I have a few ideas that I would love to be using myself (image previews, in-client file editing, etc), and I'm sure other people have their own features they'd want - and they can add them now.

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theandrewbailey9y ago· 2 in thread

> Also I wasn't a fan of how every client looked like they were straight from XP.

You keep repeating this line. If a FTP client has received heavy usage and development since the XP days, that's a good sign, I think. It proves that it is well used, tested, reliable, and capable.

I'd much rather have a program with a passable UI that is lightweight and does everything I want, than one that has an unjustified resource usage to feature ratio.

mitchasOP9y ago

We have different thoughts then. Especially since I now use FTP so infrequently, I wanted something very minimal. There just weren't any clients like that - XP style definitely isn't clean/minimal. I don't care too much about being well used, tested, and reliable if I don't like it.

dkuntz29y ago

I think your definition of minimal doesn't really match everyone else in this threads'. Opening up an entire chromium runtime just to manage FTP seems incredibly _not_ minimal to me. Filezilla, for it's somewhat outdated look and myriad of options is substantially more lightweight than anything that requires a whole web browser.

jgalloway___9y ago

I think it's awesome. Sure some people think creating an FTP client is like a hello world project but I appreciate what you have done for the reasons you have stated.

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