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15 points by Bluestein 4 months ago | hide | past | favorite | 11 comments




Had a look. What's wrong with it?


I have no interest in paying $40 to unlock

> Upload, delete, move, copy, rename, zip and unzip

If I did pay for it, then

> When Files Gallery loads in browser, it will attempt to verify your encrypted license_key remotely via non-blocking Javascript.

it phones home every time someone opens it.

And in the more abstract, it's proprietary software. That doesn't always end in tears, but given enough time I've learned to expect it to end in a rug-pull of some sort.


Exactly like Plex and Roon then. Pretty much the standard


> Exactly like Plex and Roon then.

Well, I don't use either of those, so I'm not sure what kind of argument this is.

> Pretty much the standard

No; perhaps common in your circles, but in my neck of the woods software is either FOSS or has a very compelling case to use it anyways. A web file manager with lots of FOSS competition doesn't even come close to clearing the bar.


It reminds me of a PHP script called fileNice that did the same thing. But it seems it had a few vulnerabilities: https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/10845


Funny, I was just looking at filebrowser [0] earlier today, which is a single-binary web-based file manager/uploader in Go.

[0] https://github.com/filebrowser/filebrowser



To patch out the license nag:

Edit files.photo.gallery@0.9.8/js/files.js and search for the first occurrence of "function ie(){", then add "return;" right after that.


Is there something like this for videos?

I was recently surprised when my iPhone couldn't play a h.265 MP4 video from an apache-style files listing.


Congrats. Really nice execution. Working on something rather similar but for other media. I think you did really well here.




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