Sharefest let's you send files, small or big, to other people.
You add files by clicking on the box or by dragging files into the box. Then you should see a link. This is a unique url for your files or "room". You can send this room URL through social networks, mail or just manually by copy&paste.
Sometimes. Gmail is limited for 25MB, and is not designed primarily for sending files. You also need the recipients email addresses.
Sharefest does not use cloud storage. These services work by uploading and storing the files in a remote storage, owned by these companies. Then recipients can download it from the servers. In Sharefest, the files are downloaded from other browsers, peer-2-peer.
BitTorrent is great, but requires a special software to be downloaded.
We wanted to build a web-based platform for filesharing that everyone with a modern browser
could use.
Our goal is that everyone could just enter a Sharefest URL and start downloading, even our parents :)
No - Only HTML+JS+CSS.
This was true up until recently.
Now there is a new HTML5 standard called WebRTC
and it has an API to transfer arbitrary data - Data Channels API (or RTCDataChannels API).
Currently Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox.
Usually no. Sharefest use standard WebRTC NAT traversal protocol - STUN.
A peer (user) that have the complete file and serve it to other peers.
The notification bar on the top of the box helps you to determine that. If you are the only seeder of the file, you want to make sure the file is available. Once more people seed, it is safe to close (you will see a green bar).
Right now, Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox cannot send data between each other. Sad but true
Because we are not designers. You are welcome to submit a new one. We do love our icon though
To support the delivery of large files Sharefest uses HTML5 FileSystem API for storing the file temporarily in your browser. This API is supported only by Chrome and it won't work in incognito mode. It only works if you have enough space on your disk for us to use. More precisely Chrome let us use up to 10% of your free disk space. This means that if you'd like to download or share a big file you'll have to have 10x free space than the file size. Would you like to know more?.
To support the delivery of large files Sharefest uses HTML5 FileSystem API for storing the file temporarily in your browser. This API is supported only by Chrome and it won't work in incognito mode. It only works if you have enough space on your disk for us to use. More precisely Chrome let us use up to 10% of your free disk space. This means that if you'd like to download or share a big file you'll have to have 10x free space than the file size. Would you like to know more?.
No one knows. Some think it's a happy, festing star.
Other claim it's actually a smashed rubber on the wall.