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