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Yttr – A file sharing service for temporary and non-important files

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19 pointsdanielsarsi15 comments

What does "Download Only: When this setting is active, your file will only be available for download" mean? Isn't that the whole point of the service? What else would you do?

It has a default viewer, this disables it and the link turns to be a direct link to the download.

Yttr, try thinking as a first time user and adjust your UI accordingly. Even better, ask a few friends to try it out and see what is confusing in the workflow.

I tried it on my iPad and I get an error after attempting to upload the file.

I wonder about their pick of TTL - 1 day, 4 days, 12 days. Why not an hour, 12 hours, a day, a week, two weeks?!

Anyway, seems like an awesome service with an invite-only API, which I can definitely incorporate in my https://github.com/nikolay/wshare project!

My project is only tangentially related but a little similar. https://github.com/abemassry/wsend deletes after 1 month.

We should team up, I'll contact you offline.

Yeah, it would be nice to combine effort and implement support for different backends.

I just visited this page on an iPad, but it gives some bare text about how I should upgrade my web browser. That seems disingenuous as even if I can't USE the site I might at least have been interested in finding out more about the service, what it is, and what it does.

But now my interest has been lost and, chances are, I won't get a chance to see this page again. Which is a shame - but attention can never be taken for granted. Every interaction counts - don't throw chances away with huffy messages about browser technologies.

I like the built-in viewer. You can probably also serve PDFs in an iframe since FF/Chrome/IE have built-in PDF viewers these days.

In addition, if you'd like to support picking files from cloud storage, I'd recommend checking out the Kloudless file explorer http://jsfiddle.net/pseudonumos/PB565/embedded/result/ (disclaimer: I work at Kloudless)

For me it gets to 100% and then nothing happens. (Firefox nightly though so I guess I am probably asking for it)

No matter what I upload, I get to 100% and then I get "Wow, an error occurred."

Firefox 32, linux

This shouldn't happen. Can you help us fix it by sending what shows up in the console?

fwiw files without extensions cause an error

    "[Yttr] One or more values from file object missing." File { size: 0, type: "", name: "thefile", path: "", lastModifiedDate: Date 2014-09-20T23:26:04.000Z, mozFullPath: "/tmp/thefile" }

It relies on browser information to upload. If the browser doesn't identifies size, type or name, it returns an error.

"[Yttr] Server responded with 500." Object { error: true, type: 0, message: "Wow, an error ocurred." }

Seems like an useful service. Any plans for native apps (OSX/Windows)?

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