Pixeldrain

Why Pixeldrain supports Brave

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…

Merging pixeldra.in and sia.pixeldrain.com

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…

Cross site scripting vulnerability fixed on pixeldrain.com

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.

2016–04–01 Here goes the changelog!

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. And because it was offline already I didn’t…

There’s a little bug in the current version of the website…

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…

Update 2015–08–24: http://pixeldrain.com

2015–08–24: http://pixeldrain.com is now also an official PixelDrain domain name! Also, support for bigger files is coming

This makes it easier to find the website on search engines. Uploaded files will still automatically get the…

Migration to new server software complete! The site is now powered completely by Java

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.

2015–08–11: The new version is coming along nicely, file lists are almost complete

So the past weeks I’ve rewritten the entire website from PHP to Spring Boot. There are a few reasons behind this decision:

1. I’m way better at Java than PHP, this…