16Feb 2012
Sit back and relax with Resumable File Upload
Never worry about losing your internet connection during large file uploads again!
Enjoy a new upload experience with Resumable File Upload, available for Chrome and Firefox users. No plugins or installation of anything required!
Resumable Upload means that if your internet connection breaks, Minus will wait until your connection returns and recover the upload where it left off . Whether you need to upload two megabytes or two gigabytes to Minus: just drag, drop, and relax.
Let us know what you think and please continue to share Minus.
Here are some details regarding the implementation of this feature: We were inspired by the js implementation from Dmitry. It turned out, however, that the flow control he implemented was not adaptive enough to simultaneously accommodate both low-latency/low bandwidth and high-latency/high-bandwidth connection. For resumeable uploads to work efficiently for both cases, we implemented TCP/IP-style congestion control, but over http POST requests instead of UDP packet sends.
Upload now to Minus
Posted on Thursday February 16 2012 in General, Updates by Carl Hu 34 Comments
it’s a good news
John Xie
February 16th, 2012 at 4:36 pm
Thanks!
Great, but does it mean, that only chrome and firefox users will enjoy this feature?
John Xie
February 16th, 2012 at 4:36 pm
Unfortunately it is only able to be supported on Google Chrome and Firefox browsers at the moment.
Thanks for these great news.
John Xie
February 16th, 2012 at 6:29 pm
Pleasure
yep. good idea
John Xie
February 17th, 2012 at 4:37 pm
Glad you like it, give it a try and let us know if any issues! Remember currently only working on Firefox and Chrome browsers.
Hey, This is not working for me I am using it on firefox 10.0.2
John Xie
February 21st, 2012 at 11:44 am
We will look into this asap, thanks for reporting!
Hello people, John, Carl… I never expected so much from Minus, in fact I though it would disappear in no time… WRONG!!!
Thanks a lot for all you both give us for none… Congratulations in your success, and keep going!!! Regards!!!
John Xie
February 21st, 2012 at 4:28 pm
Thanks for the kind comment! We’ll keep doing our best
Please help spread the word and invite more users to Minus as well !
Minus is the beeeest!
John Xie
February 21st, 2012 at 4:28 pm
Great idea.I always use Chrome-based browsers,so I’m gonna try.
John Xie
February 21st, 2012 at 4:28 pm
Glad to hear, let us know how it goes !
anto33
February 21st, 2012 at 4:39 pm
I have a problem:I log to Minus with my Facebook account,so when the extension asks me my username and password,I can’t log in.
John Xie
February 21st, 2012 at 4:40 pm
Go into Settings page and setup username/password, is best way to go.
Or you can update your email address in Settings page first and then do “Forgot password” to reset it. Username should be your profile name.
anto33
February 21st, 2012 at 5:03 pm
Problem solved.Thank you for your help.
John Xie
February 21st, 2012 at 5:24 pm
Glad to hear
Hi,
Does the feature of resumable file upload also work when the Chrome browser is closed by any reason?
Thanks.
John Xie
February 24th, 2012 at 6:04 pm
Unfortunately no, you have to leave browser open
John, thank you.
Ok, the ability to resume internet reconnection it´s already a plus.
Regards,
John Xie
February 27th, 2012 at 1:21 am
Hi,
Thanks for the awesome site and features. Do you plan to open source any of these (as small reuasble projects) too?
Manish
John Xie
March 2nd, 2012 at 12:29 pm
Thanks Manish. Yes we may do so in the near future
Something we’ve talked about amongst the team for sure.
Cheers!
just few months ago, I decided not to use Minus for uploading and sharing my trip videos simply because there is no resumable function. And today, I will come back to Minus and again this is what I’ve been waiting for!!!!
PS: PC client can be much better man! so
keep rocking Minus team!
John Xie
March 12th, 2012 at 2:24 pm
=) Glad to hear and welcome Back!
Hope you like the recent changes and please try out the profiles and explore pages as well.
If you have any questions feel free to contact us back any time.
Cheers
What is the minimum version for firefox and chrome ?
John Xie
March 30th, 2012 at 2:38 pm
I don’t know the exact version number but to be safe please use the latest version for the best experience.
Resumable File Upload is suported by the desktop application (v1.8) ?
John Xie
March 30th, 2012 at 2:38 pm
Desktop application does not support this at the moment unfortunately.
Excellent feature.
I too expected min.us to vanish quickly (or start shoving intrusive ads everywhere) but all I can say is I’ve been pleasantly surprised by what this site has had and continues to offer. The fact that you are constantly improving it with features like this is even more impressive.
How do you stay afloat? I don’t see any ads, nor premium accounts, which are both things I’m amazingly grateful for… but it makes me wonder.
John Xie
May 6th, 2012 at 11:21 pm
Thanks for the kind comments
We’ll keep on improving and be sure to invite your friends to join as well and take advantage of profiles/explore.
Our goal is to create a world-class product and experience for our users and the business model will follow. We can see many ways Minus can monetize itself.