Very nice news!
I hope we'll soon be able to reach the sweetness of the
archive.org
uploader, which allowed me to upload files up to 7-8 GB smoothly and
without errors (on Chromium).
Erik Moeller, 04/05/2012 05:16:
Please help test this feature and report issues
(performance, file
corruption, errors, etc.). The carrot is that with this preference
enabled, you can upload files<500 MB today (as opposed to<100 MB)
:-)
This is indeed a sweet carrot; I've tried to upload the new WMIT
WikiGuide video (190 MB) but it failed with
internal_api_error_UploadStashFileNotFoundException (took too long?).
Now I'll try again, but I had also the following (non blocking) problems
which make it unusable (or very user-unfriendly) at least on my platform:
* upload is terribly slow, averaged at 25-50 KB/s and never went above
100 (but I didn't stare at it for hours);
* especially when you add the file and start upload, it's very
resource-intensive and made my browser stall for a short while: 400 MB
of RAM used for several minutes, CPU usage hopping, a whole core waiting
for disk (?).
I suppose you're already working on these problems, but if they're
platform-specific (I used Firefox on Ubuntu) and you need more details I
can file some bugs.
Nemo