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Graham Steffaniak edited this page Jun 11, 2025 · 11 revisions

Welcome!

FileBrowser Quantum is an awesome fork of the file browser opensource project.

How this repo works

If you're experiencing issues or have a feature request, please open an issue.

If you have a general question or discussion topic, for example "how can I do...", please open a discussion

My time is limited, but I will do my best to help answer questions and make this product as useful as I can. There are plenty of changes I am planning to add, but my priority will be keeping things stable and addressing bugs that show up on the issues page.

Why does this repo exist?

First off -- aren't you happy this repo exists? However, some may have questions about why this exists when the OG repo already does. This repo exists for a couple of reasons.

  1. The maintainers of the original repo don't pay attention to it, and the velocity of changes would be 100x slower, without exaggeration.
  2. My changes are an opinionated departure that also made the application less stable for some time. The codebase is almost a complete rewrite.

As many forks go, I used the OG as a codebase to modify. This repo allows me to make the ultimate version the way I prefer—and the way I think is best. As selfish as that sounds, it's my vision for what the application should look like, and it's a version I want to give back to the community for free.

If you look at the commit history, I have personally contributed more code changes than any other contributor on the OG filebrowser, this version is well over 50% of my code.

My ultimate vision for this free software is:

  • Minimal system requirements and configuration setup. Make it easy and accessible. In the future, I would even prefer to get office support working without any configuration right out-of-the-box, with Docker (just like the media integration). That's a goal I have.
  • Feature parity with paid and free alternative options.
  • A powerhouse for additional features that nothing else offers: a full-featured jobs manager, advanced media player, and media converter, and tons of tools like duplicate file detection, file security scanning, all are general visions -- nothing concrete.
  • A robust metrics dashboard that shows user activity, system activity, job activity, API activity, etc.

None of this would be possible without creating this forked repo.

Now, check out the getting started wiki to test it out!

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