4 engineers on Hacker News describe using FTP first-hand: 0 endorse it, 1 regret it, 1 are mixed.
“pushing to prod is "easy": FTP directly. But now which version of which files are really in prod? No idea.”
regret · production · arkh · 2024-11-25 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using FTP over Wi-Fi as much as possible, but it's quite slow compared to wired file transfer.”
mixed · personal · w1ntermute · 2012-12-01 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Still later, mostly FTP.”
neutral · production · f30e3dfed1c9 · 2026-04-19 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we switched a transmission from SFTP to FTP because we couldn't be bothered to deal with the bottlenecks in the SFTP stack”
neutral · production · lolc · 2021-04-16 · source ↗ · wrong label?