Storj Labs will discontinue support for the transfer.sh service

transfer.sh

4 points·bscphil··3 comments

Really sad to see transfer.sh go. It was an extremely useful service for sending files to people, like Firefox Send but with fewer limitations, and didn't require signing up for an account.

Obviously it's extremely difficult to keep a service like this running indefinitely, but it's obviously of great value to many people. Maybe one day we'll be able to work out a successful method for community funding of services like this.

Firefox send died, too. Any replacements?

Only one I can think of is https://0x0.st, but it is more limited than either of these, including file size (512 MB vs 10 GB for transfer.sh), file types (executable types banned), blocks TOR exit nodes, etc etc. The person running it seems to want to take an active moderation approach to prevent it from being abused, which could be good or bad depending on your point of view.

Another option (if Bittorrent or Wormhole aren't usable) is to host the file yourself with IPFS, and take advantage of Cloudflare's free gateway with caching to limit the bandwidth needed to send the file to multiple people. There are also pinning services for IPFS that you can pay for with Bitcoin (or usually, non-anonymous methods as well).

For casual stuff, I imagine most people on HN have a personal server that they can just sftp files to. I certainly do that, but there are some contexts in which that's not workable.

Edit: someone in the Firefox Send thread shared https://femto.pw

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