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Why the hell is it so hard to just send a file to someone? Why must I go through a central service to host my content before I let someone else view it? Why do
by alexb_ 4y ago
Why the hell is it so hard to just send a file to someone? Why must I go through a central service to host my content before I let someone else view it? Why do I have to tell someone else that they must download third party software in order to just... send files? Without having some corporation store it on their servers.
- Ptchd 4y agohttps://file.pizza/ https://file.pizza/
- andybak 4y agoI assume WebRTC or similar could handle this. I just googled it and this showed up: https://www.sharedrop.io/ https://www.sharedrop.io/ But - in many cases people need to transfer files asynchonously - either because they can't guarantee both machines will be online for the duration of the transfer, or the other person wants to receive the file at some other time other than "now".
- alexb_ 4y agoEmail works fine for that case - that's already been solved. It's "transfer the file now" that's annoying. I would love for third party software like Croc to just be included in Windows (like Curl is now) so this isn't made hard. If you can convince someone to download extra software to get your file, you can just use BitTorrent.
- andybak 4y agoI'd really rather people weren't emailing me large files and if I'm the one sending the file I've got no idea what limits the recipient's mail provider imposes. So - email really isn't a solution to my mind.
- v37p 4y agoThere's also https://sendfiles.dev/ https://sendfiles.dev/ for browser to browser transfers. You could also self-host an FTP server (or something more modern like NextCloud) and open a port on your router to let users download (and take it a step further with a dynamic DNS provider in case your IP changes). I agree that it shouldn't be this hard just to transfer a file.