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> So you built a web-based clone?

It's more of an elaborate answer to the infamous ftp comment from when Dropbox did launch in 2007 here on HN (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8863). At its root, the project tries to solve the Dropbox problem by abstracting the storage aspect so that you can bring your own backend by implementing a simple interface.

The mysql plugin is just an implementation of that model to enable non nerds to crud a database without braking anything. I did a few one of those implementations: FTP, SFTP, S3, ... Mysql is just one of those "for the sake of science" one to be put in the same bag as the LDAP one: https://www.filestash.app/ldap-browser.html




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