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by mbreese 5146 days ago
Sharing files between people who do it infrequently is still an unsolved problem. How do I send pictures of my kids to their grandparents for example? It is still easier for me to just email photos to them.

Hell, I just got my lab group to start using Dropbox for group sharing...
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Splines 5146 days ago
> Sharing files between people who do it infrequently is still an unsolved problem. How do I send pictures of my kids to their grandparents for example? It is still easier for me to just email photos to them.

That sounds pretty solved to me.

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mbreese 5146 days ago
Except when they try to send me every single picture that they took over the holidays en masse. I end up with 10 emails, each with 10 pictures, in such low resolution that they are barely useful for anything other than viewing on screen. I want the full resolution photos online so that I could download the 1 or 2 that I really want to have.
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notJim 5146 days ago
Are there really people who are sophisticated enough to resize images but not sophisticated enough to use a zip file?

And free flickr accounts work well enough for people who don't need to print the photos out (which is really the only case you need full res, right?)

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mbreese 5146 days ago
They use the default crapware that came with the camera to send pictures. It auto resizes the photos in the worst possible way. Plus, even zipped, a moderate number of original sizes photos is still larger than a lot of email programs can handle.

I think you're drastically overestimating the sophistication levels of a lot of people when it comes to sharing photos and files. Plus, I doubt my dad has heard of Flickr, let alone know how to spell it.

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notJim 5146 days ago
Your point regarding crapware makes sense, I hadn't thought about that possibility.

And regarding Flickr... You're advocating that you would have your dad use Kicksend, which presumably he won't have heard of either.

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notJim 5146 days ago
What's especially weird to me is that a number of sites like this have existed before, and only were able to sustain themselves by turning a blind eye to piracy and putting wildly intrusive ads and things like countdown timers for downloads all over the place.

This one now seems ready to face the exact same problems.

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