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Re: Cloudflare Drop

#11

Post by sgt » Wed, Jul 08, 2026, 8:21 PM UTC

Tried uploading a ZIP and got:

"Something went wrong An unexpected error occurred. Please try again or contact support."

Re: Cloudflare Drop

#12

Post by throwaway81523 » Wed, Jul 08, 2026, 8:23 PM UTC

Wait, my first impression was that it points a local browser to your local browser. Now it looks like it uploads your folder to Cloudflare and temporarily serves it over the web. But is that different from what we used to do with FTP? Are there any databases or anything like basic PHP hosts supply? It's just static sites?

Is this a product or what? What's the purpose? Is there an API?

Re: Cloudflare Drop

#13

Post by simonw » Wed, Jul 08, 2026, 8:23 PM UTC

ChrisArchitect wrote: post #2

> No account needed. Deployment is active for 60 minutes, then expires unless you claim it. ( https://x.com/BraydenWilmoth/status/2074894829616509358 )

Same deal as their Cloudflare Workers previews from a few weeks ago: https://blog.cloudflare.com/temporary-accounts/

Re: Cloudflare Drop

#14

Post by tengbretson » Wed, Jul 08, 2026, 8:25 PM UTC

smalltorch wrote: post #5

Hmm, that's fun and useful. Here is snake game for 60 minutes. https://drop-e7e6d363-601.important-seat.workers.dev

Your code appears to have a bug where if the arrow keys trigger a change of direction twice in a single frame interval, it can mistakenly send the snake back on itself.

Re: Cloudflare Drop

#15

Post by andrethegiant » Wed, Jul 08, 2026, 8:26 PM UTC

Netlify made this 10 years ago... they even copied the name! https://app.netlify.com/drop

Re: Cloudflare Drop

#16

Post by Cider9986 » Wed, Jul 08, 2026, 8:26 PM UTC

>Something went wrong An unexpected error occurred. Please try again or contact support.

I have a few qualms with this app.

Re: Cloudflare Drop

#17

Post by brightball » Wed, Jul 08, 2026, 8:28 PM UTC

andrethegiant wrote: post #15

Netlify made this 10 years ago... they even copied the name! https://app.netlify.com/drop

There are numerous products like this out there. Isn’t that where Dropbox got its name in the first place?

Re: Cloudflare Drop

#18

Post by mattlondon » Wed, Jul 08, 2026, 8:28 PM UTC

Bender wrote: post #3

There must be some really good protection on this. If I enabled such a thing on any of my servers it would be full of warez, porn, malware, CSAM and who knows what else within minutes. Curious how they manage to keep it clean.

Only live for an hour.

But that won't stop people doing bad stuff for an hour I guess. Vibe code up some on-demand thing that you ping...

Re: Cloudflare Drop

#19

Post by collabs » Wed, Jul 08, 2026, 8:28 PM UTC

Congratulations on launching!

I tried uploading a git repository that I have previously successfully published on Github pages. This is a "no build" website I have built with the help of Claude. It should just work but I keep getting an error. Who can I reach out to give them steps to reproduce? The website repository is public and I feel like anyone at Cloudflare who wants to reproduce my problem can quite literally clone my repo and upload it to cloudflare drop.

Please drop your cloudflare email address and I will reach out to you with my repository information.

Re: Cloudflare Drop

#20

Post by altairprime » Wed, Jul 08, 2026, 8:30 PM UTC

Hah! This is exactly how I’m serving the vestigial remnant of my blogging in the early 2000s from a ZIP-backed Cloudflare Worker today. Should I rebuild my site with Drop+Claim or is it fine as-is? I kind of feel like ‘if what I have works, don’t change it’ is the best path.