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Thanks for the link. Here's 5 Gigabyte free ui/icons/psd interface. http://www.bypeople.com/

Warning, just visiting that link loads 30 Megabytes! That is insane. Luckily I did not visit with my quota-limited mobile account.

"Download" requires an e-mail address. Terms say "By downloading this bundle, you agree to receive an email from us, and to be eventually subscribed to our newsletter." Mailinator works. :)

> under this license you may not: (...) allow direct downloads of the materials from any other server that is not ByPeople's. You must redirect users to ByPeople's site.

Lawyer speak probably, but to me that makes using any files in websites hosted by myself impossible.

It's a lot of stuff, including psd's and Photoshop related items. They're only usefull if you re-save (and slice) for web. I think he just doesn't want anyone else hosting these files. The required email? TenminuteMail does the job just fine. 30 mb's? Could be but i don't know why anyone clicking on a link to 5 gig would care about 30 mb ;-)

That's one of the worst excuses for a bloated page I've ever heard. Luckily bit-torrent site operators don't share that view.

It's no excuse as I didn't build the page. I have no idea why it's 30 mb and it would have been very easy for me to share the file otherwise, but the only thing the creator asked for is a link to his (bloated) site which is only fair.

I...I don't even know how this can be offered for free. This is practically a whole marketplace worth of goods. Simply amazing.

Thanks for sharing.

It's even free for commercial use, too! Just... wow!

Nice icons indeed, but amazing? How is this more amazing than Linux, apache, node.js, PostgreSQL, Ruby on Rails, python, .... And mane more. All this software is also free... Just take a look at the Debian/red hat/Ubuntu repository, it is practically a whole marketplace worth of free goods...

http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m7ko53zcxv1qmsrb7.gif

This is not reddit, and this link is not constructive.

Yes HN is slowly becoming Reddit, and all we can do is flag posts. But they just keep coming!

"created 77 days ago"

See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4825390, your logic is broken.

I'm usually first in line to disagree with the way people bring in The Holy Guidelines (http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html), but this one is good:

> If your account is less than a year old, please don't submit comments saying that HN is turning into Reddit. (It's a common semi-noob illusion.)

I didn't know account = person. Also, I could have been just a reader.

What's next, I can't make an observation about programming, because my account is not "senior" enough?

I've been here for years, and your logic is broken.

My logic is fine. All I did was quote a guideline. If you think HN is becoming like Reddit in a bad way, then back it up with more than a worthless one-liner.

@ako: so best would be you go there, and leave your comments there, too ;-)

It does not necessarily have to be more amazing than all the free software you cited to be amazing by itself, but I get your point.

People seem to me more or less used to software given for free (& sometimes even open source) by now, especially on HN. On the other hand, quality graphic work is not yet something this community is used to see free and with such a permissive license.

Anyways, this is still a lot of hard work, given for free, and it is amazing.

This will probably make me seem ungrateful but to me that bundle seems to be quantity over quality. Don't get me wrong - there's some nice stuff in there but there's also a high proportion of cruft (geocities phoned and want their graphics back).

Both the OP and this...Christmas has indeed come early.

That's amazing marketing

I agree, I think potential customers are going to contact him for customized icons. Win win for him and some of us without the money or creative ability.

It's like a tornado learned how to use Photoshop and just starting slinging Layer Effects everywhere without a reason. The website itself is just as much a mess.

very cool, but to nitpick, the email validation is, like most, wrong. A "+" is perfectly valid in email addresses.

Legend! Thank you so much.

My brain just asploded. Thank you!

I love the Internet.

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