Both stashbox.org and shup.com will be down this weekend as I drive our server to live in SF (thanks Justin)!  I hope to have everything back up by Monday, so try to live without Stashbox until then

After ignoring the site for a while, I decided to dive in and update a bunch of things tonight.

For example, since the launch of this version of the site, I found it brutishly irksome that files downloaded from Stashbox didn’t cache. This means that if you’re viewing a thread on a forum full of images hosted on Stashbox, every time you load that page, the images would re-download; I knew there had to be a better way. So from now on, things will be much more responsive and less bandwidth will be wasted. Woot!

Problem number two was pointed out by Sensei Tim. In a semi recent conversation, he put forth that once one had left the Stashbox homepage, there was no clear way to upload another file. Thus the addition of the upload form to every page (right under the header) is justified and people will be able to upload with more efficiency.

Updating the search engine began as a simple menu change: I wanted to change/add menu items and this required me to jump into the search engine code. Once there, I decided to enhance it a bit. Move your mouse over the “Search Uploads” link on the right side of the page for more information!

A few CSS and other layout changes later, and I am ready to take a break. Oh, and I updated the stats page a few days ago; it’s niftier now.

Adios!

After a month or two or three (who can keep track?), we are finally back with a new release.  Josh and I (mostly Josh) have been slaving day and night to get it out to you.  What has taken so long, you might ask?  How about the Ignite collaboration network!  Think of it like multiplayer Shup =)

We’ve also added support for uploading to your own web server, so check out Shup v0.14 now!

And if you’ve got time, we also have a new Shup website.  I think it’s pretty sweet.

Tonight I launched a few architecture changes to the site, designed to improve responsiveness and reduce page generation time. Our server went from 60 req/sec to 750 req/sec, so not bad for a night’s work =) If you find a problem with the site, please don’t hesitate to create a thread in our support forums.

Shup v0.14 is nearly out the door, so keep an eye open for it!

Just a quick note to say that I fixed some bugs on the site, one of which being the screwy URLs in the file upload results page. Hopefully things run more smoothly now! And I wrote a little stats page too, so check that out here.  Oh, and if you click on the country stats on the right side, you can view the files from only the country you click on.  Kinda neat, anyway.

Tonight I launched all of my changes for Stashbox.org and its backend. It was basically a total rewrite, but worth it we hope =) And later on we’re gonna launch a new version of Shup too =) I will write a full update soon, good night!

We are having some minor issues while moving to the new server (ie upload failing during the thumbnailing process); while we hope to fix them soon, please check if your file was uploaded before re-submitting it.

Thanks! =)

Just wanted to let everyone (CHRIS TEAGUE, and Josh, and I) know that I fixed the loading problems with the site.  Apparently I am a bad programmer and longblobs are second-class citizens in MySQL-land (quip stolen from Josh, at least the second part; yes, I am really a bad programmer).  Anyway, things are moving smoothly again.

Meanwhile, Josh and I met today to discuss new ideas for shup; it went well.  We have some great ideas that are really going to clean up the interface, and we’re incorporating the shell extension functionality (including the Stashbox Secure feature) into shup.  This merging of applications will allow us to consolidate our efforts, as well as let everyone say “shup me!” for any occasion, be it screenshots or otherwise.

Finally, tonight is officially KMFDM-coding night!  We’ve run through Nihil, Symbols, and WWIII; next will be Attak I think.  So throw on a few of their records and get to work!

I have just uploaded the latest build of shup, the lovable Stashbox screenshot tool. This alpha release includes a brand-new preview window, featuring image editing tools and other options. In addition to this new shup release, I have also written a readme / manual and given shup its own page.

A few other minor site updates were rolled out as well. For example, the main site now has a “Popular Files” list, which contains a list of the most popular files uploaded in the past week. And the Stashbox shell extension has its own page as well.
Enjoy!

P.S. - Download shup 0.05a here.

tonight i updated the site with some bug fixes and new features!

the main part of the update is the new text viewer. Check out a sample here. Yes, it shows line numbers and syntax highlights numerous filetypes (C/C++/PHP/HTML/etc). And yes, it is awesome.

you can also now edit the filename when using the text pasting storage function of stashbox. oh, and i added a “Browse” link to the menu at the top of the site; it should now be more easy to browse the entire public file repository.

guess that’s it for now.