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My thoughts: 1. I opened the web site and said ah, this looks pretty cool, I installed the software and thought, eah.. okay I'll install it even though I reall
by johnsocs 15y ago
My thoughts:
1. I opened the web site and said ah, this looks pretty cool, I installed the software and thought, eah.. okay I'll install it even though I really don't want to install anything.
2. Upload was simple after signup.. I understand you have to do the signup thing to validate people somehow.. so for my test I sent a small file to myself..
3. Got the email to download it saw the link and tough ah sweet, just click it.. and was presented with the exe download.. hmm another thing to install to download the file... I thought, nah, not worth it, I don't want this thing anymore, form there I deleted the client.
You need to make it simple to share with people who don't have the downloader, you can't expect people to install something to download files they were sent.
Keep it free yet cap files to say 1MB for free users or something simple.. Paid users ~$5/mo get 2GB uploads..
- sunsu 15y agoI think the transfers are supposed to be Peer-To-Peer (if possible), thus the required downloader.
- johnsocs 15y agoI fully understand the idea of using peer to peer keeping costs down etc.. my review was just from a users POV. When using the service to quickly send a file to a coworker or customer I would not expect them to download a 'downloader' to get my 'attachment'
- espinchi 15y agoAs tashmahalic explains in another comment, they use UDP hole punching (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UDP_hole_punching http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UDP_hole_punching) for the transfer, which the receiving side must understand. It is indeed a bummer to have to download an installer when you receive the file, but there's no way around it!