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AnyHub - the simple, friendly, no bullshit file host

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30 pointscharliesome24 comments

Simple, yes. Friendly, I'm not so sure.

It would be a bit more friendly if there were any information about how the site works (are there size limits? for individual files? for total number of files? for total size of uploaded items? can I delete an item once I upload it? how?)

Many sites now offer you an ultra-minimal start page, but in a way this isn't really friendly. The only way to find out about the service is to start using it. That's fine, but at least most of these sites have a link somewhere to a page with information about the service. I can't find anything like that here, but maybe I'm missing something obvious.

I agree. Would be helpful to know what you can/can't do, and what the advantages of becoming a registered user are.

I registered since I was curious. There doesn't seem to be a way to delete items, but as a registered user I can get a list of things I've uploaded. That could come in handy later.

I would really love to know more about this service since it seems very useful.

Also: how does privacy work? Can I share a file and require a password to view it? Are the URLs guessable?

Nice. However - the upload box gets rendered behind the green hills. (Firefix 3.5.3 on Ubuntu)

Edit: it's not completely hidden, but largely obscured, such that I have to scroll down before I can see the form fields.

Edit 2: it seems to be a function of window size.

Not here (OS X, tested on Chrome & Safari). What browser/OS are you using?

Sorry yes forgot to include browser details, have amended question

Same here. (Chrome 5.0.3 on OS X). It's dependent on the site of the window though. I keep my relatively small, so that automatically came to mind.

yes, i see the same, depends on my window size (am on a 1200 x 800 laptop)

Same on my 1024x600 netbook.

Not that I have files on the iPhone to upload, but the background covers most of everything on mobile safari too.

Same on FF 3.6.3 on Windows.

A simple solution would be to jack up the z-index on the form so it's always in front of the hills.

I thought that was a deliberate design decision (also notice that the sky becomes darker as you scroll up). Sure, some kind of min-height would fix the issue, but it's not like there aren't other sites that assume a minimum 500px webpage height.

It doesn't look useful. There's no link to an About or FAQ page. Google finds: http://www.anyhub.net/faq.php?&l=en but that results in:

  [ 233.779] Stack: ce270443 dd963608 f12ad2c6 29ee6a02
  [ 233.779]        c2f9951b 94c81263 70513845 736511f1 
  [ 233.780]        7eda4114 e66b1fc1 024e1e70 76bd87de 
  [ 233.781] Call Trace:
  [ 233.781]  [<76bd87de>] get_page+0x7475
  [ 233.781]  [<e66b1fc1>] dispatch_request+0x7262
  [ 233.781]  [<94c81263>] http_listener+0x6973
  [ 233.782]  [<29ee6a02>] mono_runtime+0x6c65
  [ 233.782]  [<ce270443>] init+0x6574
  [ 233.783] ===================
  [ 233.785] Kernel panic - 404 not found
  [ 233.786] Halting system

Not too resilient, either.

That's just a clever 404 page, it didn't really break.

Yup. I figured that out after appropriate caffeine consumption. <sigh>

Definitely needs a progress indicator and some help with large files. Check out SWFUpload; while finicky, I've had great success with it (as has Wordpress, YouTube, etc.).

http://www.swfupload.org/

i love the simplicity, but i'm afraid it'll get popular and disappear

here's the dev's twitter: http://twitter.com/charliesome

and here's a forum post where he explains he hates rapidshare and set out to build an alternative: http://www.loungegn.net/forum/index.php?showtopic=54&st=...

and here's the (funny) non-existent faq page: http://www.anyhub.net/faq.php

On the subject of "write anything you like on my server," here is a fun little "Tragedy of the Commons" area for people to play with:

https://loom.cc/?function=edit&loc=ba35327dc62909d8383ca...

That location is stocked up with a limited number of usage tokens to limit the amount of data people can store there.

That's a great idea. You might want to improve your wording so I know what I'll get extra when I register.

Realistically, how far can you get with no ads?

Ads will not do any good, to survive he must charge from some space threshold.

I tried to upload a 12 meg file, but "The connection to the server was reset while the page was loading" after about 60 seconds.

Why do I get a runtime error and files downloading any time I visit this site? Doesn't seem simple and certainly not friendly.

I applaud the effort, though dropbox's public folder has pretty much removed my need for services like this.

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