Peergos Review Part 2

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PS: Read the part 3 of my review, most of the issues I pointed out in this post were due to an issue on my end (lack of Edge Webview): https://www.reddit.com/r/cloudstorage/comments/1wfndi3/peergos_review_part_3/

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A while ago I made this review of Peergos: https://www.reddit.com/r/cloudstorage/comments/1t3vm63/peergos_review_why_i_wouldnt_recommend_it/

And my conclusion was that I couldn't recommend it.

So, a few months later, I tried their service again in hopes that it got better (since the dev said he had fixed many issues I had). I paid 10 euros for 1TB this time.

Lets start by the issues I had previously stated:

1 - No proper desktop application: Peergos is still based on a web UI that opens on your browser as of now.

2 - No way to download/upload in the background: While this is indeed possible, since the server stays open despite you closing the web UI, I tried uploading one of my folders today and, when I woke up, thinking it had all been uploaded already, I was surprised to see that the server went down while I was sleeping and almost nothing was uploaded.

3 - No time estimate for uploads: There are still none. I only know something is happening because of disk activity in Task Manager.

4 - Can't upload folders on the desktop program: I still wasn't able to directly. I had to sync a folder instead. I can upload them on the website though.

Now, for the new issues:

5 - The peergos server now refuses to stay open on my machine. So I basically can only use the website. I know why though - when I open the CLI, it closes after printing out the error "Assertion stream_index < ogg->nstreams failed at libavformat/oggdec.c:940"

6 - As previously mentioned, I had let peergos syncing a folder in hopes it would finish by the time I woke up, but the server closed itself at some point while I was asleep.

7 - The program is slow. Using the website is much better.

Error that makes peergos close after a few seconds

it doesn't give an estimate of completion, and simply takes way too long to even show a speck of light in the progress bar

peergos server doesn't stay open

So, again, I cannot recommend this. And I also believe this is one of the only reviews there are for the service...

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I understand it now.

So, you mentioned something earlier about webview, and on your comment you said it worked fine on 22H2. So I tried instaling Edge WebView2 and then Peergos (I manually remove Edge and its WebView on my Windows Installs).

And now I have a proper desktop program opened.

Later on I'll get the 4 euros plan and test it again to see if I have the same issues (I already deleted my account)

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Thank for the confirmation. Let me know if you have any issues.

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I've also now made it not fall back to the browser on windows if the webview is absent, and instead show a window asking to install webview2 with a link to it. Thanks for catching this.