DuShare - a Dead simple file sharing - Would love to know your feedback?

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by duleaf • 16 years ago

5 7 16 years ago

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Guys, We launched dushare.com 3 months ago, we are trying to come up with a dead simple and fast file-sharing service. We appreciate your feedback and input regarding new features needed or any feedback?

Check out Dushare.com

Dylan16807• 16 years ago

It's a nice concept, sharing the file directly. Sadly it's not working here past a basic stateful firewall. Is it capable of hole punching at all? I also wonder why it loads the entire file into memory. And a final nit, fixed whitespace on the left and bottom screw up the site in a small window, and it doesn't get working scrollbars either.

mosaab_ramadan• 16 years ago

Hi,

Thank you for the feedback. There is a limitation in the technology used in dushare, it completely relies on UDP streaming which makes it really fast, but not firewall friendly. We are working on a potential solution (fall back to TCP transfer), to be released in the next cycle. Loading the entire file in memory before sending it is a flash-player constraint out of security concerns, it doesn't allow flash-player to manipulate files on the computer directly, no solution found to this problem yet.

and your UI problems are noted, thank you.

Jabbles• 16 years ago

UDP? So you do your own checksums to guarantee the file isn't corrupted?

Strunk• 16 years ago

UDP seems like a really bad idea for a filesharing solution.

schumihan• 16 years ago

UDP is more easier to penetrate a firewall, IMHO...

mtogo• 16 years ago

clickable http://dushare.com/

DuShare - a Dead simple file sharing - Would love to know your feedback?

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