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Why not dropbox or whatever place you use to share files normally? a screenshot program does not need a cloud.

by akho 3y ago

shafyy 3y ago
It's completely optional. And it's very convenient to record a screencast and have it uploaded to the cloud with one click which also copies the share URL to your clipboard at the same time. I don't use Dropbox or a similar service, so this is a real value added for me.
- akho 3y ago
  You add yet another account you need to manage, and it's very easy for your private information to be visible in screenshots/casts, in a cloud managed by the makers of a screenshot app.
robertlagrant 3y ago
Dropbox would do well to make a decent screenshot tool and make it share dropbox links.
- NikkiA 3y ago
  Once-upon-a-time dropbox had a built in screenshot tool that could upload to your public directory. It was always a pain because I was forever having to determine which of onedrive or dropbox had taken print screen handling away from my preferred screenshot tool (at the time, greenshot, now ShareX)
  - TeMPOraL 3y ago
    The more important aspect of that story: your public directory. Once upon a time, you could actually link to content in your Dropbox directly. Like, not to some Dropbox interstitial, but to files themselves. dl.dropbox.com/u/[your user ID]/path/to/file.ext would let anyone access the file.ext under [Your Dropbox "Public" directory]/path/to/. Insanely useful, which is why it both helped Dropbox gain massive userbase, and why it became one of the earliest victims of enshittification.
1123581321 3y ago
I use Cleanshot’s competitor Dropshare for this reason. I’ve configured it to upload files I want to share to my own B2 bucket.
happymellon 3y ago
Since we are talking about local first, what about Gokapi?
- akho 3y ago
  Gokapi requires an externally-visible IP. It can be self-hosted, but is hardly local-first. Also, why not nginx and a `~/Public` folder if we have an IP.
  - happymellon 3y ago
    Because Dropbox links are completely different to just having a shared folder?
    - akho 3y ago
      Depends on purpose.

Why not dropbox or whatever place you use to share files normally? a screenshot program does not need a cloud.

by akho 3y ago

Why not dropbox or whatever place you use to share files normally? a screenshot program does not need a cloud.

It's completely optional. And it's very convenient to record a screencast and have it uploaded to the cloud with one click which also copies the share URL to your clipboard at the same time. I don't use Dropbox or a similar service, so this is a real value added for me.

akho 3y ago
You add yet another account you need to manage, and it's very easy for your private information to be visible in screenshots/casts, in a cloud managed by the makers of a screenshot app.

robertlagrant 3y ago

Dropbox would do well to make a decent screenshot tool and make it share dropbox links.

NikkiA 3y ago
Once-upon-a-time dropbox had a built in screenshot tool that could upload to your public directory. It was always a pain because I was forever having to determine which of onedrive or dropbox had taken print screen handling away from my preferred screenshot tool (at the time, greenshot, now ShareX)
- TeMPOraL 3y ago
  The more important aspect of that story: your public directory. Once upon a time, you could actually link to content in your Dropbox directly. Like, not to some Dropbox interstitial, but to files themselves. dl.dropbox.com/u/[your user ID]/path/to/file.ext would let anyone access the file.ext under [Your Dropbox "Public" directory]/path/to/. Insanely useful, which is why it both helped Dropbox gain massive userbase, and why it became one of the earliest victims of enshittification.

1123581321 3y ago

I use Cleanshot’s competitor Dropshare for this reason. I’ve configured it to upload files I want to share to my own B2 bucket.

happymellon 3y ago

Since we are talking about local first, what about Gokapi?

akho 3y ago
Gokapi requires an externally-visible IP. It can be self-hosted, but is hardly local-first. Also, why not nginx and a `~/Public` folder if we have an IP.
- happymellon 3y ago
  Because Dropbox links are completely different to just having a shared folder?
  - akho 3y ago
    Depends on purpose.