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ukd1
I was wondering how long it would take for someone to do this! Beware of people deleting all your stuff; use read only secrets.
mistabrando
If anybody has suggestions for site please contact me!
ronnier
Why didn't I think of this? Seems so obvious after the fact.
hobs
Yeah I was thinking about doing it as soon as I heard about it, but I was lazy, and he beat us both to it.
hobs
A thing would either be standardizing some keywords or showing some sort of tag cloud of popular ones.
juskrey
Some edit or delete link for submitter to be returned upon creation. (Actually, did not notice if it was there)
boi_v2
Remove google analitics and stop telling google club what people is sharing.
tobeportable
All tags list and count of keys per tag. Count of keys per share & info if R or RW. I think RW don't belong here...
veridies
It would be great if there were a way to create Sync links; if I could click on "sync:XXXXXXXXXXXX" and have it automatically start syncing to that secret, then Sync would be incredibly easy to use for stuff like this.
bobuk
Yep. All developers around Sync are waiting for API and URI.
Fuxy
This is not supposed to replace torrents although it just might.
veridies
It has some real advantages, though. The ability to change the content and to let other people upload things to one folder is really cool and not easily done through torrents.
pixelcort
Be aware there is currently a bug where read-only secrets can be used to add files to a share at the time of joining. Be sure to backup your shared folders early and often!
andrethegiant
Nice. It would be great if it said the file size of the folder!
mistabrando
Once BitTorrent Sync releases their web API, I'll see what I can do
iand
Napster emerged as a way to search open filesystem shares. We need something similar for BT Sync points.
ritonlajoie
BT Sync is missing one thing : the ability to choose which files to sync from a remote secret.
bobuk
I just drop it here: http://btsnc.at/
bobuk
Actually this is mine aproach to do something webbish with bittorrent sync. I do it because lots of people who don't understand what to do with this "secrets".
antrix
So I randomly set the ID in the URL to http://btsnc.at/11 and got a secret: RXSYSTTQYRSRY4PU7DMW32GUVXOBHI4GX

Is that a valid secret.. I don't know. But if it is.. then not much of a secret if I can get one by just guessing btsnc.at URLs!

bobuk
Well. This is your choice to PUBLISH your "secret". As you can notice usualy everybody write "secret" with quotas. Because "secret" is realy not so "secret".
lurkinggrue
If you publish your ssh key than it wouldn't be a secret either.
StavrosK
How secure/stable is this? I'd like to run it as a Dropbox alternative to synchronize files between my computers, and love the fact that it's just an executable.
tobeportable
I am still expecting them to make it possible to have a folder synced(backed up only) without requiring a RW key to be created.
StavrosK
If you only want a backup, why can't you create a read-only key and send that to the backup host?
tobeportable
a write key will be created nonetheless, i did made a request on their forum for such a feature
ragmondo
I have written a plain text to base64 encoder here : http://www.getbitcoin.info/assets/misc/base64generator.html

Soo.. instead of sharing keys, you can just share keywords and then generate the keys from the keywords. It's just javascript that I based on another base64 encoding example. Feel free to use as long as I get a credit somewhere.