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Do any of the competing solutions allow the files to be stored in simple directories on the server side?
This was a neat thing MinIO did that some of the others do not. Most of the solutions break files into little chunks and spread them around -- which makes sense for the intended use case of massive number of files in a path (or replication, etc), but since I use it more casually without many files per folder, I'd rather have usable regular files on the backend.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45684736
https://github.com/georgmangold/console
someday there might be a community version
Minio is real easy to compile. After their Dev's pulled full browser console features in May, I grabbed the last source code before those changes so I could have those features on an internal network. I then setup a Debian VM, then configured a GO environment. Doing that and compiling the code took ~ 40 minutes.
Imagine not knowing how to make your own builds from source.
Better stick to managed hosting then
They pulled the documentation as well. You need to build it yourself now: https://github.com/minio/docs.
I wouldn't be surprised if they delete all the code from Github in a few months.
Exactly. That's why i have downloaded all code release builds since April.
Ive been using garage as a minio replacement since they hid the ui behind a paywall months ago. I actually use the cli version, but there is an unofficial gui: https://github.com/khairul169/garage-webui
I really only use it for backups outside of proxmox though.
i think minio (min.io) is cooked. probably abandon it because the maintainer has stated that CE is basically dead.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45665452
"If you are not a customer, you can install it using go install following the instructions in README.md. The overall project is only receiving bug fixes and CVE patches for now; it is not actively being developed for new features."
https://github.com/minio/minio/issues/21647#issuecomment-3439134621
Amazing they even removed all the documentation and examples
https://github.com/minio/docs?tab=readme-ov-file#minio-documentation
As of October 10, 2025, the MinIO object store documentation was pulled from web hosting.Moving forward, community users can build and host the documentation themselves using the instructions below.No further development of the documentation is planned at this time.
Wow!!!
I hope their commercial customers see this and decide to move on. Fuck the company and maintainers.
Well, I guess it's time to give Garage or SeaweedFS a try... we use MinIO extensively, internally, to store backups.
But they've been removing things from the open source offerings, so we've been using an older version for some time; we were expecting that sooner or later, the open source version would disappear...
This is a major bummer. Been using it for a little while and it’s been pretty nice and reliable. Did seem they were going through some backwards steps when it came to UI features being dropped, but wasn’t quite expecting this. Will assess next steps, but might be giving Garage a go. Minio for me isn’t production or anything and is behind a VPN, so can probably take my time making my mind up.
Time to try out SeaweedFS I guess, this seems to be developing really fast, even s3 versioning and sse keys now supported.
Slight concern is the (probable?) single maintainer though. But he seems to be doing it open source, is really reactive and the project has a lot of contributors.
What community you are talking about? It's only the maintainers and org members that have the most commits in any opensource projects. There is no opensource community.