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I made https://dro.pm https://dro.pm for this. You get a link like dro.pm/h which is short enough to even share over the phone or tell someone at a conference t

I made https://dro.pm https://dro.pm for this. You get a link like dro.pm/h which is short enough to even share over the phone or tell someone at a conference to open. Not like chat apps where you have to be connected to the other person first (even if that is yourself, need to navigate to that chat) and no need to install any software. It's made to be fast on any connection (e.g. by allocating the link before you even entered any data), and due to being ephemeral it's also less prone to being used for phishing like other link shorteners are. It auto-detects when you enter a link, otherwise treats text inputs as a pastebin, you can ctrl+v an image, and it has file uploads up to a few gigabytes. Code is on github (https://github.com/lgommans/dro.pm/ https://github.com/lgommans/dro.pm/) though I still have to change the license to be more permissive (I've decided that I won't pursue this as a commercial thing, just open a ticket if you want me to change the license sooner than whenever I work on this next). Viewing uploaded files instead of downloading is also possible for image/audio/video mime-types by adding /preview to any link. You can also use it from the command line if you're on a keyboard+terminal-only machine, e.g. just `wget -L dro.pm/h.txt` to download the uploaded file (the links accept an arbitrary .extension) or for uploading from the command line there is a bash one-liner contained in the page source itself, see: `curl https://dro.pm https://dro.pm | head` Made a mistake and uploaded something private or want to edit the link? Just click delete on the website, or on the command line you can use the token that you get when creating a new link.

shkkmo 5y ago
That isn't self hosted and it appears that all the data you send will be exposed to dro.pm
- lucgommans 5y ago
  Should I package it as a .deb, or what makes something self-hosted? The code is already on github: https://github.com/lgommans/dro.pm/ https://github.com/lgommans/dro.pm/ (link was buried in the text - I had a hard time prioritizing what people would want to read first, since that depends on your use-case). I guess magic wormhole is the wrong context to be making this argument in since everyone's primed for peer to peer now, but in general, yeah when using dro.pm it will put your data on dro.pm, similar to how pastebin stores your data when you use pastebin. It otherwise (and that's why I made this design decision) couldn't work after you close the tab, making it much less suitable for most of the intended use-cases. If you want peer to peer file transfer, you could have a look at https://file.pizza https://file.pizza (not made by me)
  - shkkmo 5y ago
    You license is non-standard and does not appear to permit self hosting. This appears to me much more like blantant self promotion rather than attempt to participate in the discussion. Your tool has none of the requested features (self hosted file transfer using the native share dialog.)
    - lucgommans 5y ago
      Again, I already wrote: > though I still have to change the license to be more permissive (I've decided that I won't pursue this as a commercial thing, just open a ticket if you want me to change the license sooner than whenever I work on this next). Guess that'll have to be now then. Getting this sort of crap is what makes me wonder why I bother putting this work out there in the first place. > Your tool has none of the requested features The main premise was a way to have file sharing between tablets, phones, and computers. This does that. It is open source (as of now) and has an Android share app to boot[1]. Anything else you're very welcome to make yourself, it's not a commercial plug, I'm obviously disclosing my affiliation, I host this on my personal machine at home, you're just welcome to make use of this or not if you don't like it. [1] https://github.com/lgommans/dro.pm/tree/master/android/dropm.luc https://github.com/lgommans/dro.pm/tree/master/android/dropm...
      - shkkmo 5y ago
        If it has a closed license, you haven't really "put it out there" yet have you? If you are already feeling drained by it, you probably don't actually want to run an open source project...
        lucgommans 5y ago
        This discussion isn't constructive. To reflect on how I interpret what you write: first the complaint is that one can't self-host it when the post already contained a github link, then that it doesn't have a share app when in fact it does (at the same link that I now posted a second time), and now that I shouldn't be running an open source project altogether. Perhaps judge whether I am suited for running this by how I treat your contributions when you make them. Otherwise, there's always that fork button!
Fiahil 5y ago
This starts to become a little bit repetitive, so I'll keep it short: no share modal, no Android/iOS, not self-hosted
- lucgommans 5y ago
  It starts to become a little repetitive, so I'll cite from what I replied to the sibling comment: > Should I package it as a .deb, or what makes something self-hosted? The code is already on github: https://github.com/lgommans/dro.pm/ https://github.com/lgommans/dro.pm/ (link was buried in the text - I had a hard time prioritizing what people would want to read first, since that depends on your use-case). As for no mobile app: how much faster is it going to get than opening the browser that's already on everyone's homescreen and typing a 7-8 character link? Or if you self-host it, you can host it on your own TLD like https://me/ https://me/. It being an app was also never mentioned as a requirement and I don't see how it helps, but I guess I don't need to understand. As a bonus tip, though: you can add browser bookmarks to your homescreen. Since you'll need internet to share things in the first place, it should behave roughly the same (aside from a share menu, but...). And there is a share modal for Android, actually. See the github link.
  - krageon 5y ago
    Most of this post is telling a user that what they want is wrong. Perhaps you are correct, but this absolutely doesn't work. It both most likely deters the user you respond to and most people reading your reply from using it.

shkkmo 5y ago

That isn't self hosted and it appears that all the data you send will be exposed to dro.pm

lucgommans 5y ago
Should I package it as a .deb, or what makes something self-hosted? The code is already on github: https://github.com/lgommans/dro.pm/ https://github.com/lgommans/dro.pm/ (link was buried in the text - I had a hard time prioritizing what people would want to read first, since that depends on your use-case). I guess magic wormhole is the wrong context to be making this argument in since everyone's primed for peer to peer now, but in general, yeah when using dro.pm it will put your data on dro.pm, similar to how pastebin stores your data when you use pastebin. It otherwise (and that's why I made this design decision) couldn't work after you close the tab, making it much less suitable for most of the intended use-cases. If you want peer to peer file transfer, you could have a look at https://file.pizza https://file.pizza (not made by me)
- shkkmo 5y ago
  You license is non-standard and does not appear to permit self hosting. This appears to me much more like blantant self promotion rather than attempt to participate in the discussion. Your tool has none of the requested features (self hosted file transfer using the native share dialog.)
  - lucgommans 5y ago
    Again, I already wrote: > though I still have to change the license to be more permissive (I've decided that I won't pursue this as a commercial thing, just open a ticket if you want me to change the license sooner than whenever I work on this next). Guess that'll have to be now then. Getting this sort of crap is what makes me wonder why I bother putting this work out there in the first place. > Your tool has none of the requested features The main premise was a way to have file sharing between tablets, phones, and computers. This does that. It is open source (as of now) and has an Android share app to boot[1]. Anything else you're very welcome to make yourself, it's not a commercial plug, I'm obviously disclosing my affiliation, I host this on my personal machine at home, you're just welcome to make use of this or not if you don't like it. [1] https://github.com/lgommans/dro.pm/tree/master/android/dropm.luc https://github.com/lgommans/dro.pm/tree/master/android/dropm...
    - shkkmo 5y ago
      If it has a closed license, you haven't really "put it out there" yet have you? If you are already feeling drained by it, you probably don't actually want to run an open source project...
      - lucgommans 5y ago
        This discussion isn't constructive. To reflect on how I interpret what you write: first the complaint is that one can't self-host it when the post already contained a github link, then that it doesn't have a share app when in fact it does (at the same link that I now posted a second time), and now that I shouldn't be running an open source project altogether. Perhaps judge whether I am suited for running this by how I treat your contributions when you make them. Otherwise, there's always that fork button!

Fiahil 5y ago

This starts to become a little bit repetitive, so I'll keep it short: no share modal, no Android/iOS, not self-hosted

lucgommans 5y ago
It starts to become a little repetitive, so I'll cite from what I replied to the sibling comment: > Should I package it as a .deb, or what makes something self-hosted? The code is already on github: https://github.com/lgommans/dro.pm/ https://github.com/lgommans/dro.pm/ (link was buried in the text - I had a hard time prioritizing what people would want to read first, since that depends on your use-case). As for no mobile app: how much faster is it going to get than opening the browser that's already on everyone's homescreen and typing a 7-8 character link? Or if you self-host it, you can host it on your own TLD like https://me/ https://me/. It being an app was also never mentioned as a requirement and I don't see how it helps, but I guess I don't need to understand. As a bonus tip, though: you can add browser bookmarks to your homescreen. Since you'll need internet to share things in the first place, it should behave roughly the same (aside from a share menu, but...). And there is a share modal for Android, actually. See the github link.
- krageon 5y ago
  Most of this post is telling a user that what they want is wrong. Perhaps you are correct, but this absolutely doesn't work. It both most likely deters the user you respond to and most people reading your reply from using it.