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Plebd.com file sharing service is starting to accept new users

1 pointsby normalocityabout 13 years ago
plebd.com is a new, _experimental_ file sharing service I've setup that attaches to your facebook account (more login methods to be supported soon) to encourage a community of openness and transparency between users. By attaching to a 3rd party login, the idea is to explicitly run a no-anonymity file sharing community with community moderation.<p>It's very easy to use: you upload files into "collections", and you get back a "share" link that is a url back to that collection, which you then can send around your social networks, email, etc. It's pretty basic and straight forward at this point.<p>There's also really basic support for image galleries (if the files you happen to upload include images). Supported image types include .jpg, .gif, and .png. I've received a request or two to support .tiff as well - that's in the hopper.<p>You can check out a sample photo gallery I uploaded earlier today (granted, you're probably using some other photo sharing service to share/host your photos, so this is primarily for demonstration):<p>http://plebd.com/collections/15<p>The site is moderated for illegal/improper files, but don't worry too much about that. Basically if you're uploading your own content (things that you own), you're pretty much going to be in the clear, so long as it's not otherwise illegal or unwanted (for example: nuclear launch codes would be in the illegal category, and I'm not looking to run another porn hosting service, so while protected by free speech, porn would be in the unwanted category). Other than that, it's pretty much open for uploads of any file type, not just images. So, upload your 3D desktop fabrication CAD files, some audio you're working on for a project; you know, whatever you want to share with people.<p>For the next 24 hours (or the first 100 users, whichever comes first), new users will get 5 GB of free storage, which includes unlimited downloads/shares (i.e. people can download the files you upload an unlimited number of times).<p>Finally, there's also a number of enhancements that need to happen, and I'm taking feedback on what the priority of those enhancements should be in the following poll:<p>https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dDBRRERIMGFPWDFlVzNqNVh2ZmVMdkE6MQ#gid=0<p>You can reach out to me directly, if you wish, at jeff@karmanebula.com

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