For many years now Pixeldrain has been partnered with the Anonymous Advertising network. A-Ads is a network providing complete privacy and transparency for all its users, publishers and advertisers. You can for example view a complete list of advertisers, and ad units right on their website without logging in or…

I’m currently working on merging the old Java-based website pixeldra.in (which has the majority of the users) and the new Go-based website sia.pixeldrain.com. Here is how it will work: User accounts will be moved to the new database. If you have an account with the same name on sia.pixeldrain.com your…

Last Monday (4th of december) pixeldrain.com was patched with a security fix. The vulnerability was only in the front-end, your files were not at risk. Here's what changed: XSS vulnerability fixed on file viewer page. File names and descriptions containing javascript would be executed. XSS vulnerability fixed on the list viewer page. List names and descriptions containing javascript would be executed.

I’ve been procrastinating this update for so long that I may not remember everything I added :). What eventually pushed me over the edge was that the Vultr server ran out of bandwidth and I had to take the website offline. …

I keep seeing NullPointer errors in the server logs, and I found out the reason. When someone creates a list of files, it gets an URL starting with /l/. In the background this ID refers to an array of file IDs, but when one of those files expires the server…

This makes it easier to find the website on search engines. Uploaded files will still automatically get the shorter pixeldra.in domain name though. I’m currently working on the file size limit. I think it might be better to set a daily limit per IP address, and no limit for single…

It was quite nerve wrecking because not everything went as planned, but I managed to fix it all and all previously uploaded files should still be available. I have actually been procrastinating this for a while as I knew it was going to be hard and stressful, but I’m glad…

So the past weeks I’ve rewritten the entire website from PHP to Spring Boot. There are a few reasons behind this decision: I’m way better at Java than PHP, this means I can speed up development quite a lot by working in my favorite language. …

This is where I’ll keep you up-to-date with the latest changes on http://pixeldrain.com/ I’m going to start with adding all the update posts that I put on other sites like reddit and voat