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Re: Show HN: YouTransfer – Self-hosted file sharing

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What about Gravatar?

Please just stop using it? It's the feature no one asked for.

I am not a very important person but I certainly ask for it, and I'd like you to stop discarding me and my "kind" as "no one".

Re: Show HN: YouTransfer – Self-hosted file sharing

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Probably http://www.youtransfer.io/ I'm having a little trouble, too. Even making the type a little bit darker would help.

I'm a bit hesitant to change this as I'm using the GitHub site generator for convenience. There is a limited set of templates available, most of which are either ugly or have readability issues. As the website basically only consists of the README file, you can also look at the GitHub project for more information ( https://github.com/remie/YouTransfer )

haha, fair enough. I just checked my github, and as you can probably guess, I've just used their template which is pretty low-contrast.

Re: Show HN: YouTransfer – Self-hosted file sharing

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Any chance for a more readable font?

BTW: if this concerns the youtranfer.io website (instead of the YouTransfer application), I'm actually a bit hesitant to change this. I'm currently using the GitHub site generator for convenience. There is a limited set of templates available, most of which are either ugly or have readability issues. As the website basically only consists of the README file, you can also look at the GitHub project for more information (https://github.com/remie/YouTransfer)

Re: Show HN: YouTransfer – Self-hosted file sharing

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Basically... yeah, if you do not take any additional security measures, anybody can just "dump" files on your server. You could opt for the S3 storage provider, which will dump the files to Amazon AWS instead. The YouTransfer project does not implement access control or SSL, so it is highly recommended that you look at the hosting options on the Wiki ( https://github.com/remie/YouTransfer/wiki/hosting ). I'm afraid t…

This is very nice! Personally I'd really like some kind of login for the uploader so I can offer this service to friends and family (and myself ;)) without the risk of someone discovering the url and using it as a way to distribute illegal things... Perhaps it is easy to do with Apache/Nginx (when the upload site is on another subdomain for example), I don't know actually. The speeds issue can be solved by running on…

Facebook integration might be nice here so that you could simply allow your FB friends, or perhaps those in a certain group, to share files.

Re: Show HN: YouTransfer – Self-hosted file sharing

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Please just stop using it? It's the feature no one asked for.

I am not a very important person but I certainly ask for it, and I'd like you to stop discarding me and my "kind" as "no one".

Do you ask for that with the awareness that gravatar then gets to track your presence around the internet for the cost of a tiny picture?

I would rather have less ad tracking pixels on someone elses websites if possible, but I am genuinely interested in the value that gravatar provides to people who like the service.

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I am not a very important person but I certainly ask for it, and I'd like you to stop discarding me and my "kind" as "no one".

Do you ask for that with the awareness that gravatar then gets to track your presence around the internet for the cost of a tiny picture? I would rather have less ad tracking pixels on someone elses websites if possible, but I am genuinely interested in the value that gravatar provides to people who like the service.

There's a lot of things that can track presence around the web and gravatar's not one of them. Iff you decide to implement gravatar without mirroring their images, avatars are indeed loaded on their first query (and not subsequent ones) and, god knows what they're doing with that information ohgod. They certainly can't "track my presence around the web", though - no js means no fingerprinting, no tracking cookie, nothing. Juuuust a blind IP address.

But the recommended way is to prefetch the avatars directly from your server and offer them on your own cdn.

As for the value it provides, well for one thing I pretty much never have to upload my avatar to websites anymore - it's an avatar attached to my email addresses instead and that's very nice. Of course I'd prefer a proper identity protocol but nobody's working on one. If you want to, be my guest...

Re: Show HN: YouTransfer – Self-hosted file sharing

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I made this once pomf.se went down: https://github.com/SirCmpwn/sr.ht pomf.se was my replacement after my own hosting service, MediaCrush, went down.

I've been searching for a pomf.se replacement for some time now, so this is great! Can I request an account?
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