Comment by robonerd | Hacker News Reader

Comment by robonerd | Hacker News Reader

Did Mozilla bring this back? Last I heard, Firefox Send was shut down due to malware/etc moderation issues.

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/what-happened-firefox-s...

> Firefox Send has been discontinued as of September 17th, 2020. You will no longer be able to upload or receive files. We’d like to thank all of you who tried Firefox Send.

> We started Firefox Send as a way for you to share files safely and easily from any browser. Unfortunately, some abusive users were beginning to use Firefox Send to ship malware and conduct phishing attacks. When this problem was reported, we stopped the service. Please see the Mozilla Blog for more details on why this service was discontinued.

This is not the actual Firefox Send but rather just Send: https://send.vis.ee/

> This application is not affiliated with Firefox or Mozilla in any way.

So the title is somewhat wrong.

It seems like ffsend came before send.vis.ee, but the fork explicitly kept compatibility (see the readme at https://github.com/timvisee/send)

That's my understanding as well. ffsend was created as a client to the Mozilla-hosted filesharing service at send.firefox.com (now defunct). The server component was then forked and made self-hostable.

So that's how it is! Thanks for the clarification. :)

Looks like there is a maintained fork here: https://github.com/timvisee/send

They ended the service, but you can host your own server -- which is what the developer of this package has done

That's valid enough, but if I'm hosting my own server and I'm happy with the command line then the use case for a tool like this gets very niche.

If I'm using the dev's server than that's pretty nice I guess.

I actually donate a nominal amount via github sponsors just to help support hosting costs since I find the utility useful -- specifically in my case for allowing people using my Binder notebooks to get their data out of the container without having to have a server of their own.

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