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I'm a little disappointed to see min.us making headlines—it started off as a fairly obvious clone of http://www.dropmocks.com/ http://www.dropmocks.com/. I gue

by BSeward 16y ago

I'm a little disappointed to see min.us making headlines—it started off as a fairly obvious clone of http://www.dropmocks.com/ http://www.dropmocks.com/. I guess min.us has built out their feature set a little more, and DropMocks was just a side project of Glen Murphey's (open source! https://github.com/glenmurphy/dropmocks https://github.com/glenmurphy/dropmocks ), but all the same it'd be more heartening for original ideas if it was DropMocks that was getting this press. [edit: In fact min.us is built on DropMock's source, in accordance with its very permissive license but without acknowledgement and a little tactlessly in my opinion. http://www.reddit.com/r/reddit.com/comments/eailg/minus_code_was_taken_from_an_open_source_version http://www.reddit.com/r/reddit.com/comments/eailg/minus_code... ]

svlla 16y ago
cool story. maybe there'll be a movie about it someday.
martinshen 16y ago
Although it is based in part on the DropMocks code.. I know that the backend is entirely different. Everyone cites min.us as an image sharing service but I use it everyday to share HTML, CSS, PHP, MP3, AI, PSD and more files. IMHO, leaning on someone else's UI is fine... taking someone's backend (the harder part) is robbery.
- BSeward 16y ago
  I haven't dug into this code at great length, but it looks like the images-only limitation is totally artificial, gated by the isImage method on line 23 of https://github.com/glenmurphy/dropmocks/blob/master/files/mocklist.js https://github.com/glenmurphy/dropmocks/blob/master/files/mo... Anyways, Dropmock's server-side code is ~500 lines of Python, the bulk of app code is in JavaScript and comparing files like https://github.com/glenmurphy/dropmocks/raw/master/files/mock.js https://github.com/glenmurphy/dropmocks/raw/master/files/moc... and http://min.us/smedia/minus/scripts/mock.js http://min.us/smedia/minus/scripts/mock.js suggests that the heart of the "harder part" is still Dropmocks.

by BSeward 16y ago

svlla 16y ago

cool story. maybe there'll be a movie about it someday.

martinshen 16y ago

Although it is based in part on the DropMocks code.. I know that the backend is entirely different. Everyone cites min.us as an image sharing service but I use it everyday to share HTML, CSS, PHP, MP3, AI, PSD and more files. IMHO, leaning on someone else's UI is fine... taking someone's backend (the harder part) is robbery.

BSeward 16y ago
I haven't dug into this code at great length, but it looks like the images-only limitation is totally artificial, gated by the isImage method on line 23 of https://github.com/glenmurphy/dropmocks/blob/master/files/mocklist.js https://github.com/glenmurphy/dropmocks/blob/master/files/mo... Anyways, Dropmock's server-side code is ~500 lines of Python, the bulk of app code is in JavaScript and comparing files like https://github.com/glenmurphy/dropmocks/raw/master/files/mock.js https://github.com/glenmurphy/dropmocks/raw/master/files/moc... and http://min.us/smedia/minus/scripts/mock.js http://min.us/smedia/minus/scripts/mock.js suggests that the heart of the "harder part" is still Dropmocks.