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Collected alternatives from the comments here:

https://wetransfer.com/

https://swisstransfer.com/

https://transfer.midrive.io/

https://send.firefox.com/

https://transfer.sh/

ps: I really wish HN supported basic markdown so we can make bullet lists and other simple formatting controls, nothing wild like citation/footnote support just the top 5-10 markups. Trying to make a list of URLs to share looks like ass here.

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There's also the magic wormhole:

https://github.com/warner/magic-wormhole

It depends on a central relay server but the planned Tor hidden service feature could change everything.

Looks fine to me. What's wrong with using asterisks as bullet points?

Markdown is pretty much a standard for non WYSIWYG enabled comment forms out there today.

Except it isn't. For my work I have about 5 different editors to work with, each with their own markup syntax.

The best markup is no markup, or at least as minimal as possible

Might also consider https://file.pizza for p2p transfers. And my own service https://patchbay.pub. Or fibridge [0] if you want to self host. The main advantage of patchbay and fibridge over other solutions I've seen is they support range requests, so you can do things like streaming and resumable transfers.

[0] https://github.com/anderspitman/fibridge-proxy-rs

I remember when file.pizza was first released. Glad to see it’s still being actively hosted.

I always had the question in my mind, who is paying for the bill, how are they funding these? How do they make profits?

WeTransfer.com offers a Pro subscription, and also serves ads on their wallpapers. They've been profitable for a long time now.

https://wetransfer.com/about

OnionShare [1] is also great - you can transfer files with no size limits, anonymously over Tor.

[1]: https://onionshare.org/

I've been building a list[1] of file transfer tools with their perks, there's a few new ones from this thread that I will add.

I used to run a transfer service myself but it wasn't up to scratch with the competition and it was costing me money so I decided to aggregate them instead.

-- [1] https://fastest.fish/

> transfer.sh - Technical knowledge of command line tools required

https://transfer.sh website also support Drag'n'Drop for upload, so technical knowledge of command line tools NOT "required", BUT "recommended".

> I've been building a list

I just curios when found that MediaFire[0] service not added in this list yet ;)

[0] https://www.mediafire.com

Added, thanks!

I definitely don't have them all!

If you are interested in self-hosting, there are a lot of options available too:

https://github.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted#sin...

There's something to be said about using the Dropbox or Firefox options when sending a file. I'm not familiar with the other companies and so for all I know they are saving the file looking for valuable info. Middrive.io doesn't even resolve for example.

I like the idea of summaries (like you did) and wish HN would figure a way to do this also for points that people make in comments. Even if not same day or later.

+1 to supporting markdown although I feel like comments would get kinda crazy looking if there was more than just emphasis and

  code

formatting.

My top 5 wishlist: bold, italic, lists, inline code `` and link formatting [](). (edit: and change 2 spaces indent to 4 spaces indent for code blocks to align with real markdown)

Italic already supported:

  *Italic*

You can manually inserts bullets (U+2022) to approximate lists:

• foo

• bar

• spam

What I most want is a way to force a newline without starting a new paragraph.

- https://wetransfer.com/ - website UI & upload non-usable without JavaScript

- https://swisstransfer.com/ - website UI & upload non-usable without JavaScript

- https://transfer.midrive.io/ - website UI & upload non-usable without JavaScript

- https://send.firefox.com/ - website UI & upload non-usable without JavaScript

- https://transfer.sh/ - website UI & upload non-usable without JavaScript, BUT there are instructions on uploading using cURL or alias.

So they all work absolutely great for their intended audiences?

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