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Re: Cloudflare Drop

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Post by amaldavid »

joenot443 wrote: post #22
throwaway81523 wrote: post #12

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?

A minute ago I had an HTML doc I wanted to share with a PM. It was a Claude prepared demo of a hypothetical feature. Lots of screenshots. I ended up just embedding them directly in the HTML as base64 and sending him a 15mb file, but hypothetically this would have been a nice solution instead.

Been through the exact same issues and built a publishing workflow over cloudflare a few weeks back and did decent reception from HN as well

you can check it out here: https://github.com/Amal-David/pagecast

Re: Cloudflare Drop

#192

Post by vinothkumarnaga »

karlkloss wrote: post #186

Does nobody read the fineprint? By submitting, posting, or publishing your content, suggestions, enhancement requests, recommendations, feedback, information, data, or comments (“Content”) to any Website or Online Service, you are granting Cloudflare a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free right and license (with the right to sublicense) to use, incorporate, exploit, display, perform, reprodu…

Thank you for highlighting this :)

Re: Cloudflare Drop

#193

Post by thelibrarian »

karlkloss wrote: post #186

Does nobody read the fineprint? By submitting, posting, or publishing your content, suggestions, enhancement requests, recommendations, feedback, information, data, or comments (“Content”) to any Website or Online Service, you are granting Cloudflare a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free right and license (with the right to sublicense) to use, incorporate, exploit, display, perform, reprodu…

If you don’t give them a license to display the works you give them to display, how can they legally display it?

Re: Cloudflare Drop

#194

Post by hliyan »

andrethegiant wrote: post #15

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

Isn't this what we used to do with Geocities a quarter century ago? And with most other websites that offered FTP upload? You didn't have to be very technical -- there were windows FTP clients where you could just type in the IP, username, password and see an explorer-like view, onto which you could just drag and drop your HTML and image files.

Re: Cloudflare Drop

#195

Post by harrouet »

karlkloss wrote: post #186

Does nobody read the fineprint? By submitting, posting, or publishing your content, suggestions, enhancement requests, recommendations, feedback, information, data, or comments (“Content”) to any Website or Online Service, you are granting Cloudflare a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free right and license (with the right to sublicense) to use, incorporate, exploit, display, perform, reprodu…

You beat me to it, I was going to post the same.

Clear red flag, only useful for whistleblowers.

Re: Cloudflare Drop

#196

Post by bartvk »

jnaina wrote: post #93
swingandamiss wrote: post #57

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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wait till anyone remotely mentions apple or apple products. the neckbeards on their thinkpads will come in droves to shit on cupertino's best.

It's not Apple in general. If they release a new Mac Mini, it's fine. The thread when the Neo was released, was outright jubilant. It's whenever macOS is mentioned, it devolves in extreme negativity. I always, always avoid those.

Re: Cloudflare Drop

#197

Post by dminik »

thelibrarian wrote: post #193
karlkloss wrote: post #186

Does nobody read the fineprint? By submitting, posting, or publishing your content, suggestions, enhancement requests, recommendations, feedback, information, data, or comments (“Content”) to any Website or Online Service, you are granting Cloudflare a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free right and license (with the right to sublicense) to use, incorporate, exploit, display, perform, reprodu…

If you don’t give them a license to display the works you give them to display, how can they legally display it?

Perpetual and irrevocable? And with the right to modify, not just display?

You do not need all that.

Re: Cloudflare Drop

#198

Post by gpt5 »

thelibrarian wrote: post #193
karlkloss wrote: post #186

Does nobody read the fineprint? By submitting, posting, or publishing your content, suggestions, enhancement requests, recommendations, feedback, information, data, or comments (“Content”) to any Website or Online Service, you are granting Cloudflare a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free right and license (with the right to sublicense) to use, incorporate, exploit, display, perform, reprodu…

If you don’t give them a license to display the works you give them to display, how can they legally display it?

Perhaps the same way that Github works when you host your web page there. I.e. A revocable, limited license, where you retain full ownership, and only grant them permission to host and serve your content + a limited set of other uses, and you dictate external licensing?

Re: Cloudflare Drop

#199

Post by tritiy »

thelibrarian wrote: post #193
karlkloss wrote: post #186

Does nobody read the fineprint? By submitting, posting, or publishing your content, suggestions, enhancement requests, recommendations, feedback, information, data, or comments (“Content”) to any Website or Online Service, you are granting Cloudflare a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free right and license (with the right to sublicense) to use, incorporate, exploit, display, perform, reprodu…

If you don’t give them a license to display the works you give them to display, how can they legally display it?

It states more than just display: 'to use, incorporate, exploit, display, perform, reproduce, distribute, and prepare derivative works'

Re: Cloudflare Drop

#200

Post by gmac »

sevenzero wrote: post #187
karlkloss wrote: post #186

Does nobody read the fineprint? By submitting, posting, or publishing your content, suggestions, enhancement requests, recommendations, feedback, information, data, or comments (“Content”) to any Website or Online Service, you are granting Cloudflare a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free right and license (with the right to sublicense) to use, incorporate, exploit, display, perform, reprodu…

People are losing the ability to read. Lots of high schoolers are incapable of reading properly already. Attention spans shrink. We got some fun times ahead of us. We need these legal texts as short form TikTok content I am afraid.

I have plenty of ability to read, but I never read these T&Cs because they’re usually dozens of pages long and life’s too short (or, if you prefer, the cost/benefit doesn’t support it). For consumers in Europe, at least, it’s usually safe to assume that anything too shitty is unenforceable, which helps.
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