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Remember why we were able to use Skype for this? Pepperidge farm remembers! Joke aside I transfered a lot of files inside instant messengers and they worked qu
by pmlnr 9y ago
Remember why we were able to use Skype for this?
Pepperidge farm remembers!
Joke aside I transfered a lot of files inside instant messengers and they worked quite well. Nearly everyone had at least a yahoo/messenger/skype/icq account, which made this rather simple, and, because nobody had the capacity/wasn't insterested/was actually p2p, it was perfectly fine. A bummer if the modem connection went down or you had to hang up because the family wanted to make a call, but hey, it was glorious. (no, this is not sarcasm, it really did work.)
- bvda 9y agoAnd now you aren't able to use Skype for anything anymore :p
- pmlnr 9y agoDon't know if you're serious or not, but I'm pretty sure M$ stores the files if you manage to send anything, which, with the linux "client" is a struggle for certain.
- Kpourdeilami 9y agoSkype somehow gets worse with every update. I have given up on it all together, now I just use appear.in instead. It doesn't require signing in and supports screen-sharing
- boondaburrah 9y agoI'm lucky I set up call forwarding to my google number a while ago. I can't even receive calls anymore! If the skype gods are smiling, one of my associated phones will randomly ring if somebody tries to contact me on skype (Google voice I think tries to ring all your phones in hopes that you'll pick up one of them, but in practice it can be somewhat random what actually connects). Sometimes it doesn't though, and then I have no idea you tried to contact me, because skype is so broken that it /never/ rings when you call me. This makes matters worse when my skype number is listed as the contact number on some contracts I've signed (their computer system was set up to only accept Japanese phone numbers).
- tracker1 9y agoAt home I have an obi hai box connected to a cordless phone on my google voice account, it rings every time... but my cell doesn't always ring.
- Mister_Snuggles 9y agoI remember using ICQ for this! One thing I used to do when I wanted to send files to people outside of the context of a chat was just drop them in a directory on the web server that was running on my machine. Sharing files with folks in a private IRC channel was incredibly easy this way.
- andirk 9y agouho
- wslh 9y agoThere is a whole market, managed file transfer, only focused on this. The industry is/was strongly oriented on integrating this offerings inside ubiquitous apps like Outlook. UX is the main issue.
- deleted 9y ago[deleted]
- snakeanus 9y agoIRC also allows you to send files by using DCC.
- dijit 9y agoNot sure why this is downvoted, DCC is direct connection which bypasses the server, p2p.
- digi_owl 9y agoLikely because it needs a IRC server to set up the handshake, and the exposure of IP addresses. Never mind that DCC and NAT don't mix well.
- dijit 9y agoNo different than hitting a webserver. IRC networks cloak your IP address. I agree about NAT, but that doesn't negate the fact that it was peer to peer that worked for over a decade.
- LeoPanthera 9y agoP2P is impossible without exposure of your IP address, for hopefully obvious reasons.
- chungy 9y agoComplicated with NAT and IPv4/IPv6 mismatches.
- Kpourdeilami 9y agoApple mail has this really cool feature that when you email someone a file that is too large, it uploads it to Icloud automatically and then sends that a person a downloadable link from Icloud that expires in 30 days
- oatmealsnap 9y agoAnd most people wouldn't even know that is happening in the background.
- digi_owl 9y agoUntil something break, because receiver is not in the Apple fold. And then it is the receivers fault for not walking in the grace of Jobs...
- mcphage 9y agoIt doesn't matter if the receiver uses Apple products or not—so long as the sender has an iCloud account, it'll work. As far as the receiver cares, it's just a URL where the file is.
- deleted 9y ago[deleted]
- matthewmacleod 9y agoThat’s a baseless complaint.
- pmlnr 9y agoThunderbird has/had this as well, you could even select a few providers, like Box and that Ubuntu cloud which is now deprecated. Probably a decent solution, but still needs a 3rd party server, which you didn't with the p2p im solutions.
- vanous 9y agoI use it regularly and have self hosted webdav server for this reason. iirc, extension for custom server is required, but the functionality comes from Firefox.
- cdnsteve 9y agoMan I miss ICQ! Is it weird I still have my number memorized?
- pmlnr 9y agoNo, it's not :) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12957306 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12957306
- Pxtl 9y agoMiranda was awesome. Simple, light, native, and supported many protocols. I miss that kind of software on the desktop.
- toyg 9y agoIt will come back. When C++ becomes " retro cool", the current generation of JS rockstar ninjas will shout it from the rooftops: "I've reimplemented Atom in C++ and it's SO quick, man!"
- Zelizz 9y agoI kind of doubt that. The current generation of JS rockstar ninjas does everything in their power to avoid learning a new language.
- amedvednikov 9y agoA simple, light, native desktop client for Skype, Slack, and many other protocols is being developed right now :) https://eul.im https://eul.im
- gespadas 9y ago+1, So... I'm not the only one :-)
- _ikke_ 9y agoI thought I had forgotten it, but I could just recall it again.
- SubiculumCode 9y agoI miss that functionality too. It is stupid that direct transfer is more of a pain that it should be.
- amelius 9y agoI recently tried to send a file to a small group of friends on Facebook. After uploading, it rejected the file because it was a video with a copyrighted song playing in the background.
- amelius 9y agoNext time I'll zip it :)
- wolf550e 9y agoyou probably need to add a password to the zip file or it will be scanned too.
- doingmyting 9y agoand rename the ".zip" extension to ".renameToZip"
- fredley 9y ago"This file cannot be sent, since its content cannot be confirmed to be safe and virus-free". Maybe not today, but it's not an inconceivable next step...
- devrandomguy 9y agoOh no, I've encountered this many times already. Sometimes, double-wrapping the archive satisfies a system that isn't recursively extracting archives. :/ Shall we try stenography next?
- jacobolus 9y ago*steganography
- devrandomguy 9y ago
- akabanov 9y agoOur tool lets you use the same P2P method for Remote Desktop access and link sharing (mblok.io). I saw a lot of these tools come up when WebRTC started out, however, they are limited by file size and are really unstable.
- digi_owl 9y agoBest i can tell, this happened because shiny buzzwords and "ux" before feature retention.
- chocolatebunny 9y agoI remember all the disconnects with ICQ file transfers. I think they added a recovery mechanism eventually. Some friends even ran their own ftp (I think most people used War ftp) before ISPs started blocking ports. Now it's all about uploading to "the cloud" or use sneakernet. My friend uses mega.nz, which seems decent for file sharing. I, personally, never underestimate the bandwidth of a sedan, driving down the highway with a single USB key.
- flash42 9y agoJokes aside you should double check if it is the correct usb key before a cross-country ride.
- tomkarlo 9y agoUnfortunately, we've deprecated that interview question.
- Piskvorrr 9y agoYou may have deprecated it; Amazon implemented it. Moving petabytes around is still a challenge. https://aws.amazon.com/snowmobile/ https://aws.amazon.com/snowmobile/
- api 9y agoIM type apps seem to all go to shit after a while. Every one starts out good and then becomes feature encrusted bloated junk that barely works.
- MiddleEndian 9y agoMost of them used to reliably support xmpp though, I miss being able to just run Pidgin (or Adium if on a Mac).
- wodenokoto 9y agoI posted this link in the other Mozilla thread a few days ago: www.file.pizza Let the p2p transfer commence
- O1111OOO 9y agohttps://www.file.pizza https://www.file.pizza does not connect https://file.pizza/ https://file.pizza/ does connect
- grovegames 9y agoWasn't microsofts version Groove become SkyDrive (now OneDrive)?
- puranjay 9y agoI dread using Skype on my Windows 10 laptop. The application crashes half the time, logs me out for no reason, and takes a ridiculous amount of time to load up. I haven't seen a app more ignored than Skype. This should have been what Whatsapp is today. But MS just killed it
- dagurp 9y agoThey're probably putting all their energy into Skype for business (which is also a terrible product)
- la_oveja 9y agoTry Telegram, I use it like it was MSN Messenger back then <3
- O1111OOO 9y agoI think I'm going to have to settle for this or similar for non-phones (tablets, desktops). I kept looking for a simple messenging app (username, password... maybe email account) to avoid having to share my number, etc. The first thing Telegram did (like many others) was pull my contacts and display other users in my contacts (based on their number) that were also using telegram. There just doesn't seem to be anything out there that's friendly, old-school messenging (except for complicated stuff that would be difficult for other users to get setup).