@jaden said:
Thanks for the recap. I tried looking at the incident from April that you linked but it now returns a 404. That's not a good look for transparency.
@hornet said:
I just signed up to get you +10GB (I hope).
Awww. Thanks - appreciate it.
Fair to note that even though "extra storage" from that link is maxed out, but if I understand correctly, the link should also have granted you an extra 10 GB of storage (please correct me if I'm wrong), so it should still be a net-win.
Still no proper Rclone support, just their own CLI (has anyone here tried that?).
Have also been trialling them very tentatively with a view to maybe grabbing a BF special.
I did try the CLI under Linux using the WebDAV server and that seemed to work OK. More recently have been using the beta rclone implementation under Windows purely for backup document storage and again that seems to work fine for me, though light use via the rclone VFS cache. Was hoping it might make it into upstream rclone by now, it is apparently under review for that and I note it's been updated very recently.
I have a very small lifetime plan with them. TBH the feeling I get from their subreddit and discord is very much one of "just wait, it's about to be great." Maybe I'm just paranoid, and I don't have a lot of real-world use of the service myself, being upfront, but it feels like it's always on the edge of something instead of being a viable service as-is.
@SocksAreComfortable said:
I have a very small lifetime plan with them. TBH the feeling I get from their subreddit and discord is very much one of "just wait, it's about to be great." Maybe I'm just paranoid, and I don't have a lot of real-world use of the service myself, being upfront, but it feels like it's always on the edge of something instead of being a viable service as-is.
I see it everywhere when I scratch the surface, it is how practically everything is run nowadays, it only differs by how much it's noticeable/visible with different companies.
So it's probably never going to get all good and polished, but my dilemma is whether it will be useful, or a take-money-and-run operation.
just a reminder, this BF will be the last time they offer the Pro series of plans as lifetime offers, after that it will only be the starter 100GB for 29.99euro
@dgc1980 said:
just a reminder, this BF will be the last time they offer the Pro series of plans as lifetime offers, after that it will only be the starter 100GB for 29.99euro
@dgc1980 said:
just a reminder, this BF will be the last time they offer the Pro series of plans as lifetime offers, after that it will only be the starter 100GB for 29.99euro
As far as I could see, they were saying they will reduce and probably completely cut lifetime sales.
Then, this summer, they posted about that this Black Friday may be the last lifetime sale, but that "starter" lifetime will probably stay available: https://filen.io/hub/lifetime-plans-an-update/
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Thanks for the recap. I tried looking at the incident from April that you linked but it now returns a 404. That's not a good look for transparency.
https://status.filen.io/incident/544157
Yup - put that right at the start of the article - and notified Filen.io as a bug report, in case it is an honest mistake.
Red flag IMO.
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I just signed up to get you +10GB (I hope).
Awww. Thanks - appreciate it.
Fair to note that even though "extra storage" from that link is maxed out, but if I understand correctly, the link should also have granted you an extra 10 GB of storage (please correct me if I'm wrong), so it should still be a net-win.
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Have also been trialling them very tentatively with a view to maybe grabbing a BF special.
I did try the CLI under Linux using the WebDAV server and that seemed to work OK. More recently have been using the beta rclone implementation under Windows purely for backup document storage and again that seems to work fine for me, though light use via the rclone VFS cache. Was hoping it might make it into upstream rclone by now, it is apparently under review for that and I note it's been updated very recently.
I have a very small lifetime plan with them. TBH the feeling I get from their subreddit and discord is very much one of "just wait, it's about to be great." Maybe I'm just paranoid, and I don't have a lot of real-world use of the service myself, being upfront, but it feels like it's always on the edge of something instead of being a viable service as-is.
I wrote in greath length about that state of mind (and running business) on my blog.
https://blog.bikegremlin.com/1122/zeitgeist/
I see it everywhere when I scratch the surface, it is how practically everything is run nowadays, it only differs by how much it's noticeable/visible with different companies.
So it's probably never going to get all good and polished, but my dilemma is whether it will be useful, or a take-money-and-run operation.
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@bikegremlin bro just have to say your obsession with the Germans is getting weird even for me
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I use this myself to backup my backups using rclone and the webdav option in the cli, works fantastic.
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I had a lifetime plan with them from a long time ago. When I switched to self hosted and proton drive visionary, I just sold that off.
Team push-ups!
just a reminder, this BF will be the last time they offer the Pro series of plans as lifetime offers, after that it will only be the starter 100GB for 29.99euro
https://filen.io/hub/black-friday-2025-the-final-return-of-pro-lifetime-plans/
They've been saying this for years.
Team push-ups!
As far as I could see, they were saying they will reduce and probably completely cut lifetime sales.
Then, this summer, they posted about that this Black Friday may be the last lifetime sale, but that "starter" lifetime will probably stay available:
https://filen.io/hub/lifetime-plans-an-update/
In the latest announcement, they have confirmed that this will probably be the last lifetime sale of the Pro plans (and that the Starter plan will remain still available "for now"):
https://filen.io/hub/black-friday-2025-the-final-return-of-pro-lifetime-plans/
Could just be FOMO marketing.
But it seems genuine.
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they have too many downtime for me
So, they do redact their status pages?
https://status.filen.io/
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I tried looking at their history on the internet archive to find clear evidence, and it's excluded. Seems suspicious.