UUCP
Shares rank 12 of 17 file transfer apps by recommenders
Old store-and-forward file transfer tool; people value its resume support on poor connections, but most say it is now largely obsolete.
Old store-and-forward file transfer tool; people value its resume support on poor connections, but most say it is now largely obsolete.
10 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 7
- criticize it
- 3
- approval share
- 70%
Recommended in 6 of 13 months
- November 2025: not recommended
- December 2025: not recommended
- January 2026: recommended
- February 2026: recommended
- March 2026: not recommended
- April 2026: recommended
- May 2026: recommended
- June 2026: recommended
- July 2026: recommended
- August 2026: not recommended
- September 2026: not recommended
- October 2026: not recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 7 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, not met.
- 2.3 recommenders for every criticNeeds 2 to 1 or better, met.
- Recommended in 6 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, met.
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What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
What people warn about
Each mark is one comment
Largely obsolete today
“Fun times, but not exactly useful today.”
Comment from 22 Jan 2026 in “Can you slim macOS down?” “even more clearly obsolete and bad practice for a modern OS”
Comment from 11 Jun 2026 in “macOS 27 Beta Breaks the Ability to Boot Asahi Linux” Apple still ships it, unexplained
“Apple still includes uucp for some unknown reason.”
Comment from 11 Feb 2026 in “The Day the Telnet Died” “Apple still includes uucp for some unknown reason”
Comment from 11 Feb 2026 in “The Day the Telnet Died”
Other file transfer apps people recommend
The four most recommended other file transfer apps, with the same counts for each, so you can compare like for like. The tick on each bar marks the 2 to 1 line the badge needs.
| Product | Recommend | Criticize | Approval | Months | Owned | Badge |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| LocalSend | 81 | 25 | 76% | 11 | — | Approved |
| Magic Wormhole | 21 | 6 | 78% | 8 | — | Approved |
| Kermit | 15 | 4 | 79% | 2 | — | — |
| croc | 13 | 3 | 81% | 5 | — | Approved |
| UUCPThis page | 7 | 3 | 70% | 6 | — | — |
What people said
8 of the 10 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“Worth considering again, if I can find a next hop again.”
“even more clearly obsolete and bad practice for a modern OS”
“I also was a UUCP node for a couple of years”
“Resuming partial transmission is great! I used it up until ~2010 and it worked really great on some very, very crappy connections”
“Apple still includes uucp for some unknown reason”
“Apple still includes uucp for some unknown reason.”
“Fun times, but not exactly useful today.”
“In the beginning I also had to use bang paths to avoid some misconfiguration upstream.”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.