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Did Mozilla bring this back? Last I heard, Firefox Send was shut down due to malware/etc moderation issues. https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/what-happened

Did Mozilla bring this back? Last I heard, Firefox Send was shut down due to malware/etc moderation issues. https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/what-happened-firefox-send https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/what-happened-firefox-s... > Firefox Send has been discontinued as of September 17th, 2020. You will no longer be able to upload or receive files. We’d like to thank all of you who tried Firefox Send. > We started Firefox Send as a way for you to share files safely and easily from any browser. Unfortunately, some abusive users were beginning to use Firefox Send to ship malware and conduct phishing attacks. When this problem was reported, we stopped the service. Please see the Mozilla Blog for more details on why this service was discontinued.

saghul 4y ago
Looks like there is a maintained fork here: https://github.com/timvisee/send https://github.com/timvisee/send
cbkeller 4y ago
They ended the service, but you can host your own server -- which is what the developer of this package has done
- Dylan16807 4y ago
  That's valid enough, but if I'm hosting my own server and I'm happy with the command line then the use case for a tool like this gets very niche. If I'm using the dev's server than that's pretty nice I guess.
  - cbkeller 4y ago
    I actually donate a nominal amount via github sponsors just to help support hosting costs since I find the utility useful -- specifically in my case for allowing people using my Binder notebooks to get their data out of the container without having to have a server of their own.
ask_b123 4y ago
This is not the actual Firefox Send but rather just Send: https://send.vis.ee/ https://send.vis.ee/ > This application is not affiliated with Firefox or Mozilla in any way. So the title is somewhat wrong.
- yccs27 4y ago
  It seems like ffsend came before send.vis.ee, but the fork explicitly kept compatibility (see the readme at https://github.com/timvisee/send https://github.com/timvisee/send)
  - VWWHFSfQ 4y ago
    That's my understanding as well. ffsend was created as a client to the Mozilla-hosted filesharing service at send.firefox.com (now defunct). The server component was then forked and made self-hostable.
  - ask_b123 4y ago
    So that's how it is! Thanks for the clarification. :)

saghul 4y ago

Looks like there is a maintained fork here: https://github.com/timvisee/send https://github.com/timvisee/send

cbkeller 4y ago

They ended the service, but you can host your own server -- which is what the developer of this package has done

Dylan16807 4y ago
That's valid enough, but if I'm hosting my own server and I'm happy with the command line then the use case for a tool like this gets very niche. If I'm using the dev's server than that's pretty nice I guess.
- cbkeller 4y ago
  I actually donate a nominal amount via github sponsors just to help support hosting costs since I find the utility useful -- specifically in my case for allowing people using my Binder notebooks to get their data out of the container without having to have a server of their own.

ask_b123 4y ago

This is not the actual Firefox Send but rather just Send: https://send.vis.ee/ https://send.vis.ee/ > This application is not affiliated with Firefox or Mozilla in any way. So the title is somewhat wrong.

yccs27 4y ago
It seems like ffsend came before send.vis.ee, but the fork explicitly kept compatibility (see the readme at https://github.com/timvisee/send https://github.com/timvisee/send)
- VWWHFSfQ 4y ago
  That's my understanding as well. ffsend was created as a client to the Mozilla-hosted filesharing service at send.firefox.com (now defunct). The server component was then forked and made self-hostable.
- ask_b123 4y ago
  So that's how it is! Thanks for the clarification. :)