social.noyu.me

jesus christ the cloud future is complete shit. i've clicked the link to go to a google drive shared folder, and i want to find a single file in that folder. so i type in the search bar. but that doesn't search the folder. there's no option to. what the fuck???

we need to make personal websites a thing again because goddamn every time someone puts stuff in a google drive or a dropbox it's just torture trying to find things in it

‪really i'm just complaining about free file hosting here, which has always been terrible, i just find google and dropbox's offerings particularly intolerable‬

@hikari@social.noyu.me dropbox was great back when they allowed hotlinking

i used it as a FastDL host for Source game servers

@hikari yes, absolutely

@hikari only tangentally related, but reminds me also of things increasingly breaking browser Ctrl+F in favour of something that only halfway does the right thing if you're lucky

(most recently github's rendering of a single file, but many other cases too)

@firefly so many websites break ctrl-f so that they can dynamically render more content as you scroll up and down, but in many cases they wouldn't need to do this if the generated html weren't so bloated to begin with. a browser can easily handle a huge file listing in plain html and search it rapidly

@hikari oh awesome, they have replicated my experience of desktop search, in the cloud

@hikari i had this same issue this weekend! it turns out it doesn't search recursively in folders. i tried downloading the whole directory but it gets split into 2gb zip increments, and also the downloads fail if i try to do more than one at a time. then my hard drive ran out of space so i had to try again. then my flash drive died. then my isp had an outage