FileBrowser App is Dead now, any plans to move to another?

TooGoooD · Jun 12th 2025

🆘 Need Maintainers · filebrowser filebrowser · Discussion #4906

Hello! I have stepped down from this project a long time ago, and @o1egl has been maintaining it for years. However, none of us have as much time as we used to…

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personally I always set up MOBAxterm to SSH in to the server and use the built in file browser, but i did find the FileBrowser app helpful during new installs for a quick fix until I get around to setup proper SSH keys.

are there any plans to replace this app now that is being discontinued?

looking at this comparison of the different available apps seems like a few decent options are available. https://github.com/9001/copypa…ovudstraum/docs/versus.md

raulfg3 · Jun 13th 2025

why do not use dockerized app that you want?

jonebarker · Jun 13th 2025

There is a improved fork called FileBrowser Quantum which you can try. They also list the closest competitors and feature comparisons. Runnning via docker is much more flexible especially for mounting multiple directories.

votdev · Jun 13th 2025

I think the OMV plugin will be removed because the Podman based solution is really hard to debug in case of errors. It will be replaced by the Kubernetes based recipe. For OMV8 the k8s plugin will get some nice enhancements which will make it on par with the podman based plugins.

For Filebrowser Quantum it should be trivial to add a new K8s recipe.

gekomod · Jun 13th 2025

hmm but not everyone uses k8s, relying only on k8s, that's how I see it, forcing k8s into the system is not nice, unless there will be a split into k8s or docker of such a plugin then ok

macom · Jun 13th 2025

Please note, this is about Podman, not Docker.

votdev · Jun 13th 2025

Quote from gekomod

hmm but not everyone uses k8s, relying only on k8s, that's how I see it, forcing k8s into the system is not nice, unless there will be a split into k8s or docker of such a plugin then ok

Kubernetes is much powerful than Podman and it is much easier to add new apps this way.

I simply do not have the time for such time consuming development that is required for plugins based on Podman.

K3s, the runtime engine in the Kubernetes plugin, is running nearly everywhere and shouldn’t be a show stopper.

If the community contributes plugins based on Podman, I am still happy. From now on new apps added by myself are added only as K8s recipes.

votdev · Jun 13th 2025

Quote from gekomod

hmm but not everyone uses k8s,

That's a pretty weak argument, by the way, because you could also say the same thing about the plugins that rely on Podman.

If you don't have Kubernetes yet, just install it.

TooGoooD · Jun 14th 2025

Quote from jonebarker

There is a improved fork called FileBrowser Quantum which you can try. They also list the closest competitors and feature comparisons. Runnning via docker is much more flexible especially for mounting multiple directories.

i have seen that but it is in early stage of development and according to the dev it is not ready for production servers. but it looks like it has some new added features that look promising. if copyparty had a server UI it would be hands down the winner IMO.

votdev · Jun 30th 2025

Quote from Sherrihaynes

Someone replicated, enhanced filebrowser as filebrowser quantum, havent tried but i do assume they are active in dev.

There is already a filebrowser quantum Kubernetes recipe available for the openmediavault-k8s plugin.

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