In-depth guides on sharing files safely — ephemeral links, privacy, photo dumps and password protection.
A plain-English explainer of links that delete themselves — how they work under the hood, when they're the right tool, and when they're not.
Some are. Some absolutely are not. Here is the checklist we'd run on any service — including ours — before uploading anything you care about.
A photo dump is a batch of casual, mostly unedited photos from a trip, a party or a month, shared all at once instead of one polished post. It started on Instagram, but it's also the fastest way to hand a pile of photos to the people who were actually there.
The dump format works because it's uncurated — but 'uncurated' still benefits from a theme. These are the dumps people actually scroll to the end of.
Passwords on share links are widely misunderstood — overused when they add nothing, missing exactly where they'd help. Here's the honest version.
Discord's upload limit is 20 MB per file on a free account, 50 MB with Nitro Basic and 500 MB with Nitro. Here's what that means for videos, why the number keeps changing, and how to send anything bigger without paying for Nitro.
"Can you send me the files?" is where most handoffs stall: attachments bounce, photos get compressed, and nobody wants a new account. A file request link fixes the receiving side. Here's how to use one well.
Every upload dialog lets you pick more than one file; the trick is knowing the shortcut for your device. Here's how to select many files at once on a computer or a phone, and how to send them all behind a single link.
Email gives up at about 25 MB, and chat apps shrink photos and videos. The reliable way to send a big file is a download link. Here's how to pick the right one, how long a 1 GB upload takes, and what to do when a file is bigger still.