MRmr_spothawk·Jun 16, 2020Submission
Fine Uploader is shutting down #2073
1 points · Open discussionFineUploader
fine-uploader
JavaScript2018–2020
FineUploader / fine-uploader · Archived
fine-uploader
Multiple file upload plugin with image previews, drag and drop, progress bars. S3 and Azure support, image scaling, form support, chunking, resume, pause, and tons of other features.
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What it is
Multiple file upload plugin with image previews, drag and drop, progress bars. S3 and Azure support, image scaling, form support, chunking, resume, pause, and tons of other features.
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Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 3:56:07 PM UTC.
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HN mentions by month7 dated mentions
Observed mentions: 2018-01-20 17:29:28 UTC to 2020-06-16 03:25:47 UTC.
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| Period | Start (UTC) | End (exclusive, UTC) | Mentions | Submissions | Comments |
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| Jan 2018 | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-02-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Feb 2018 | 2018-02-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-03-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mar 2018 | 2018-03-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-04-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Apr 2018 | 2018-04-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-05-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| May 2018 | 2018-05-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-06-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jun 2018 | 2018-06-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-07-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jul 2018 | 2018-07-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-08-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Aug 2018 | 2018-08-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-09-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Sep 2018 | 2018-09-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-10-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Oct 2018 | 2018-10-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-11-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Nov 2018 | 2018-11-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-12-01 00:00:00 UTC | 4 | 1 | 3 |
| Dec 2018 | 2018-12-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jan 2019 | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2019-02-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Feb 2019 | 2019-02-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2019-03-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mar 2019 | 2019-03-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2019-04-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Apr 2019 | 2019-04-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2019-05-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| May 2019 | 2019-05-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2019-06-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jun 2019 | 2019-06-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2019-07-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jul 2019 | 2019-07-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2019-08-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Aug 2019 | 2019-08-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2019-09-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Sep 2019 | 2019-09-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2019-10-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Oct 2019 | 2019-10-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2019-11-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Nov 2019 | 2019-11-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2019-12-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Dec 2019 | 2019-12-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jan 2020 | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-02-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Feb 2020 | 2020-02-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-03-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mar 2020 | 2020-03-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-04-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Apr 2020 | 2020-04-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-05-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| May 2020 | 2020-05-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-06-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jun 2020 | 2020-06-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-07-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
What Hacker News says
7 sourcesIsn't that changing the goalpost a little bit? I don't think anyone ever called Safari the new IE because of market dominance.
Personally, I compare it to IE because of how weird it can be. Does anyone else remember the time they broke file upload[1], even though those issues were found in beta[2]? Or about the time they changed meta viewport[3]?
Edit: Oh, the last link also remind me of the window.location change that utterly broke Angular/Ionic[4].
[1] https://blog.fineuploader.com/ios8-presents-serious-issues-t...
[2] https://github.com/FineUploader/fine-uploader/issues/1269 (I can't remember the Apple radar bug number(s))
[3] https://www.reddit.com/r/web_design/comments/3la04p/psa_safa...
[4] https://blog.ionicframework.com/ios-9-potential-breaking-cha...
In Chromium-based Edge preview buildsI feel bad for the guy, he's not wrong, that's for sure, but a recent example of "doing this right" is here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18525025 / https://github.com/FineUploader/fine-uploader/issues/2073 (FineUploader is shutting down)
At least, it seems that way to me. If I were ever in a burdensome positioning of maintaining a package I didn't want to maintain, I'd go for the explicit archive/sunset route. At that point if someone wants to fork and re-package, they can do it, but it won't mess with anything directly downstream immediately.
In If it's not fun anymore, you get nothing from maintaining a popular packageIt seems like the owner was trying to find someone for over a year and nothing panned out:
https://github.com/FineUploader/fine-uploader/issues/1881
In Fine Uploader is shutting downhttps://github.com/FineUploader/fine-uploader/issues/1881 was open for more than a year. There were some proposals, but I assume that all of them imposed conditions that the author considered unacceptable.
For such a large project, there is no such thing as dormant, only rotting. Archiving makes this status clear to potential users.
In Fine Uploader is shutting downFine Uploader is shutting down
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