<story><title>Spacedrive – an open source cross-platform file explorer</title><url>https://github.com/spacedriveapp/spacedrive</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jamiepine</author><text>We&amp;#x27;re early alpha, our product is free and open source&lt;p&gt;At the end of the day, it is an amazing experience simply just to search and organize files from not just devices, but disconnected drives. Search is lightning fast, the UI is clean and you own all the data, given its local first and peer-to-peer.&lt;p&gt;Hate it if you must, but we&amp;#x27;re super passionate about it and are ruthlessly working to reach full stability across all platforms.</text></item><item><author>troupo</author><text>Honestly, you can&amp;#x27;t call yourself a &amp;quot;file explorer&amp;quot; if you fail the basic task of exploring files without an additional step of &amp;quot;adding a location&amp;quot; (wat?)&lt;p&gt;Also, judging from the GitHub description, it&amp;#x27;s not a file explorer. It&amp;#x27;s a slightly extended Dropbox:&lt;p&gt;--- start quote ---&lt;p&gt;From cloud services to offline hard drives, Spacedrive combines the storage capacity and processing power of your devices into one personal distributed cloud, that is both secure and intuitive to use.&lt;p&gt;--- end quote ---</text></item><item><author>jamiepine</author><text>Hey thanks for trying Spacedrive! The bug you&amp;#x27;re experiencing is known when browsing &lt;i&gt;before&lt;/i&gt; adding a &amp;quot;Location&amp;quot;. We index Locations ahead of time to generate a cache that makes browsing super fast, Spacedrive is, contrary to some replies here, designed for big data, we cache and virtualize everything.&lt;p&gt;Next update we&amp;#x27;ll fix the bug browsing non-locations, as those who open the app tend to try browsing first, before adding as a location it seems. It&amp;#x27;s alpha software so I hope you give us time to iron it all out!</text></item><item><author>Klaster_1</author><text>Decided to try it out. After the installation, it asks to &amp;quot;create the library&amp;quot;, share the analytics and log in - not exactly what I expected compared to other file explorers. Next, I decided to navigate to a random directory on one of my drives. After double clicking, nothing happened. Opening a dir with a context menu action did nothing too. Turns out 15k files in a directory make it effectively non-navigable. Total Commander and Window Explorer have no such issues. Spacedrive still has to iron out the basic file explorer features, it seems.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lelanthran</author><text>Firstly, I&amp;#x27;m not really an expert on marketing, so take what I say as mere opinion not fact.&lt;p&gt;I think that you should be pitching it a little differently: many people are confused about what your soundbite is actually saying (I also thought it was a file explorer, like all other file explorers I have even used).&lt;p&gt;Maybe lean hard into a phrase like &amp;quot;Unified file browser; see all files on all your devices, all at once, all the time&amp;quot;.[1]&lt;p&gt;The other thing I would emphasise is that &lt;i&gt;this isn&amp;#x27;t syncthing&lt;/i&gt;. You don&amp;#x27;t have to mention syncthing by name, but you could emphasise that &amp;quot;Your files aren&amp;#x27;t synced between devices, they&amp;#x27;re visible to all your devices&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;Too many people who would otherwise use this would dismiss it with &amp;quot;I&amp;#x27;m already using syncthing&amp;quot;!&lt;/i&gt; AIUI, you &lt;i&gt;aren&amp;#x27;t&lt;/i&gt; syncing files between devices, only syncing file-listings.[2]&lt;p&gt;PS. For my own use, unfortunately, I don&amp;#x27;t need something like this. Sorry.&lt;p&gt;While it would be a nice to have in theory, it just doesn&amp;#x27;t solve any pain-points I am currently experiencing.&lt;p&gt;For example, any important document I need to read on different devices is &lt;i&gt;already&lt;/i&gt; either in my email, or on google drive. I view movies on Netflix+AMZ+Disney+, I only ever share photos with others, not with other devices that belong to me. It&amp;#x27;s rare that I look at a file stored locally on my phone and say &amp;quot;I need to see this on my PC&amp;quot;, or vice versa. It just never happens.&lt;p&gt;[1] That came out sounding super-weird: I &lt;i&gt;did warn you&lt;/i&gt; that I wasn&amp;#x27;t any good at marketing :-)&lt;p&gt;[2] I expect you provide value on top of that, like transparently copy-n-paste between two different devices, even from a third device.</text></comment>
<story><title>Spacedrive – an open source cross-platform file explorer</title><url>https://github.com/spacedriveapp/spacedrive</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jamiepine</author><text>We&amp;#x27;re early alpha, our product is free and open source&lt;p&gt;At the end of the day, it is an amazing experience simply just to search and organize files from not just devices, but disconnected drives. Search is lightning fast, the UI is clean and you own all the data, given its local first and peer-to-peer.&lt;p&gt;Hate it if you must, but we&amp;#x27;re super passionate about it and are ruthlessly working to reach full stability across all platforms.</text></item><item><author>troupo</author><text>Honestly, you can&amp;#x27;t call yourself a &amp;quot;file explorer&amp;quot; if you fail the basic task of exploring files without an additional step of &amp;quot;adding a location&amp;quot; (wat?)&lt;p&gt;Also, judging from the GitHub description, it&amp;#x27;s not a file explorer. It&amp;#x27;s a slightly extended Dropbox:&lt;p&gt;--- start quote ---&lt;p&gt;From cloud services to offline hard drives, Spacedrive combines the storage capacity and processing power of your devices into one personal distributed cloud, that is both secure and intuitive to use.&lt;p&gt;--- end quote ---</text></item><item><author>jamiepine</author><text>Hey thanks for trying Spacedrive! The bug you&amp;#x27;re experiencing is known when browsing &lt;i&gt;before&lt;/i&gt; adding a &amp;quot;Location&amp;quot;. We index Locations ahead of time to generate a cache that makes browsing super fast, Spacedrive is, contrary to some replies here, designed for big data, we cache and virtualize everything.&lt;p&gt;Next update we&amp;#x27;ll fix the bug browsing non-locations, as those who open the app tend to try browsing first, before adding as a location it seems. It&amp;#x27;s alpha software so I hope you give us time to iron it all out!</text></item><item><author>Klaster_1</author><text>Decided to try it out. After the installation, it asks to &amp;quot;create the library&amp;quot;, share the analytics and log in - not exactly what I expected compared to other file explorers. Next, I decided to navigate to a random directory on one of my drives. After double clicking, nothing happened. Opening a dir with a context menu action did nothing too. Turns out 15k files in a directory make it effectively non-navigable. Total Commander and Window Explorer have no such issues. Spacedrive still has to iron out the basic file explorer features, it seems.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>devmor</author><text>You are definitely suffering from miscommunication here. Calling it a file explorer is a bit misleading. I think what your project aims to be is &lt;i&gt;really&lt;/i&gt; cool and very useful, but a file explorer is a secondary trait to what it actually is.</text></comment>