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@yestalgia I will say that the configuration is not the most intuitive. Part of it is just that the web UI is, imo, not that good. There's a lot of confusing stuff exposed to users that isn't really important for like 99% of use cases.
(who cares whether compression is metadata only or all data or none? wtf is "introducer" vs "auto-accept"? why do I need to see a random hash for device or folder id in addition to a device or folder name?)