Syncany VS DiskCord

This reminds me of my (now dead) open source Dropbox alternative Syncany [1] and all the different storage plugins I made for it [2]. Long story short, a storage plugin only had to implement the API methods upload, download, list and delete, so you could literally use anything as a storage backend (FTP, SFTP, S3, WebDAV, ..).

I made a few fun plugins that would encode data (after deduping, compressing and encrypting them) into PNG or BMP and store them on Flickr (which gave you 1TB of free storage for images) or Picasa (now Google Photos). It was actually relatively efficient and not slower than the other methods, and it looked super cool to have albums full of what looked like images of static. It was a blatant violation of their ToC, so obviously not serious.

The code is still online, it's from 2014/2015. The Flickr plugin with the PNG encoder is here [3], and I'm not entirely sure if I ever published the Picasa one.

[1] https://www.syncany.org/

[2] https://github.com/syncany?q=plugin

[3] https://github.com/syncany/syncany-plugin-flickr/tree/develo...

I wrote something just like this with Discord, and I even got it to host full videos which you can play back in browser. It's a good backup service. [0]

I want to expand this in into a fully modular service that you write payloads and scripts for various services, so when you upload a file its spread out across many different providers. When you're downloading, you just go down the list check what still exists, and verify the checksum. This should be stable for many years.

[0] https://github.com/5ut/DiskCord

I love fun projects like this! It seems like you're restricted to 5mb (Imgur's limit), perhaps there is a way to chain multiple images together? I wrote another project in the same scope [1] where it uses Discord files and compiles everything to a massive blob then splits it up into many smaller chunks, giving an (in theory) infinite upload cross domain. Seems to be still going strong.

[1] https://github.com/5ut/DiskCord

The uploader does that, it uploads. I have a small guide to get it working here: https://github.com/5ut/DiskCord/tree/main/Uploader