No problem, Hopper might not be for you. However, I've gotten a lot of requests re: emailing updates, so I will consider it!
Let me say, though, that I absolutely respect your privacy and have no intention of looking at your data. It's as private as you want it to be. I'm also happy to put this in the TOS.
Exporting is another story as its easier said than done. Emailing you the pastes periodically (optionally), however, may alleviate that problem.
> Let me say, though, that I absolutely respect your privacy and have no intention of looking at your data. It's as private as you want it to be. I'm also happy to put this in the TOS.
OP's issue wasn't so much privacy as it was permanency, as I read it. So using Gmail, I can rest assured that in five year's time my documents will still be around, just as they are today. Whereas with a new service, who's to say what lies in store for it? What if you pivot? What if you're acquired? Unfortunately a service like Gmail wins in this context.
I used to think that about email services, too. Then one after another they changed their terms when I wasn't looking, and deleted data I thought was safely stored.
What ever happened to 'your own hard drive'? Is there some reason people can't use that for storage? I have a VPS that I use as a file intermediary. I'm highly confident that, and my backups, will be there in 5 years.
For most users, "your own hard drive" is a terrrible solution. They do not have a VPS that they use as a file intermediary (they don't even know what a VPS is), and they don't know how to keep backups, and if they did the backups would probably be corrupted or out of date.
This is the miracle of web hosted software for most users. It's also what makes Dropbox so special.
I know plenty of people who use portable hard drives, flash drives and writable optic media as a backup... I don't see many downsides in that, barring catastrophic loss (which can happen to second party storage as well, though they do tend to be more professional about being careful).
Of course, a burned DVD isn't going to let me access my file from the office and at home unless I take it with me, so there are drawbacks.
Exactly, and this IMO is the problem with /any/ new service that aims to do this. It's a known problem. Solutions have been tried before. I wish this company the best of luck, but I don't have high hopes for this getting popular.
IMO, Dropbox and similar services are the first real viable replacement for e-mailing files to yourself.
To be frank, I also expected to mainly get downvotes from my spur of the moment response.
But the gist of what I was trying to convey is:
It's 2011. The web is inherently tied with javascript.
(The "progressive enhancement" thing in respect to lack of javascript doesn't hold after Ajax and the so-called "Web 2.0", ie since 2005).
Turning js off AND using a left-field browser, is probably pushing it too far, and you don't really get to complain about broken functionality after that.
Look, I'm not counting on web developers providing me with a site that's fully functional without JavaScript. That would be stupid. I have no trouble enabling JavaScript for specific sites that need it.
Opera is a great browser and has good support for HTML5 and CSS3. In fact, since I refuse to live without snappy Mouse Gestures, I don't even really have a choice in my primary browser.
Also, redirecting a browser somewhere without using JavaScript (since it was disabled) should be a reasonably simple operation.
And finally.. Tinfoil? All in all, there was absolutely no reason for that personal attack of yours. So yeah, try to behave.
Let me say, though, that I absolutely respect your privacy and have no intention of looking at your data. It's as private as you want it to be. I'm also happy to put this in the TOS.
Exporting is another story as its easier said than done. Emailing you the pastes periodically (optionally), however, may alleviate that problem.