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2025: The cycle never ends

2024: Stressed out Phoenix

Hello lovely Patrons. Another year has passed, and it's time for another recap. Check out last year's recap...

New storage servers

Pixeldrain is moving to a new storage provider. We have a whole rack of storage servers. They're nearly ready. These servers will greatly improve pixeldrain's performance and stability. All togethe...

Rclone 1.68 just released with Pixeldrain Filesystem support

Hello Patrons,

Rclone just released a new version with Pixeldrain Filesystem support. It took a long time to get this change merged, but it's finally here. Now you can use Rclone with pixeldr...

New account dashboard

Hello lovely patrons,

Pixeldrain now has a handy-dandy account dashboard. This dashboard replaces the old user page (which ...

Tokyo expansion

If you are on the Discord or following me on Mastodon/Twitter you might have already read about it, but pixeldrain now has three servers in Tokyo!

This took longer than expected. I already or...

Subscription updates

Hi people,

I have doubled the transfer cap for all Patreon plans. So Pro now has 4 TB, Persistence 8 TB, etc.

The file expiry time for free users has been extended to 120 days (4 months...

Directories

That's right. The filesystem is here.. sort of. The tech is still experimental. It's a completely separ...

A Discord community, believe it or not

Hello lovely supporters. I have set up a little Discord community for you with a few friends. Feel free to join and vibe with us.

There are channels for talking about anything and channels fo...

Servers overloaded

The pixeldrain servers are overloaded currently. There is a huge traffic peak and my system was not equipped to handle it. I have ordered more capacity, but the datacenter where my servers are loca...

2023: The year that pixeldrain became a business

Hi people. The end of the year is nigh and I wanted to do another little recap like I did last year.

Why are my downloads suddenly so slow?

This week I started hearing from many customers that their download speed has suddenly dropped to around 30 KiB/s, well below what's acceptable. I spent some time investigating this and I have come...

New prepaid subscription type for customers in Europe

Hi everyone,

The prepaid plan, which used to be exclusive to business users, is now available to everyone in the EU.

Why only the EU? Well, there's two reasons:

• I need to re...
  2023-09-19 14:35:31 +0000 UTC View Post

New feature! Upload files directly to your albums

You can now directly upload files to your albums on pixeldrain. Either drag-and-drop, click the upload button or press 'u' to start uploading. Pasting screenshots with CTRL + V is also an option. T...

Thank you for your support throughout 2022

This was a great year for pixeldrain. Here are some statistics:

• The number of Patreon subscribers increased from 207 to 1341
• Monthly earnings through Patreon increased from €...
  2022-12-31 15:14:21 +0000 UTC View Post

Price raise

Tomorrow I will be disabling new subscriptions for the Pro (€2) tier. The €4 tier (currently called Resolve) will be renamed to Pro. It will stay this way at least until the end of November. 2022-10-31 09:04:34 +0000 UTC View Post

Would you pay for pixeldrain if it was more expensive?

This year my Patreon page has been growing incredibly fast. But expenses have been growing too. Now a few of my hosting providers have announced they are raising prices because of the electricity c...

New settings page design

I have overhauled the user settings page to make it easier to navigate. Pages with much content have been split up in separate sub-pages. This should make it easier to find the configuration option...

Increased file size limits

To  celebrate the deployment of pixeldrain's new storage system I have raised the file size limit from 10 GB to 20 GB for free users and from 20 GB to 50 GB for Pro subscribers. I have also ra...

Subscription billing on Patreon

Patreon just released subscription billing. Here's the announcement post: https://blog.patreon.c...

Erasure coding is live!

Here we go! The update I have been working on for the last two months is now running in production. Pixeldrain now uses 2022-09-26 14:10:13 +0000 UTC View Post

2022-08 Data loss postmortem

In the last week of July pixeldrain lost about 6% of all files it was storing due to a database crash. Here is what happened:

In the second week of July I went on a three week vacation. In th...

1000 Patrons!

Thank you all for your support. After 7 years of development my hobby project is finally turning into a profitable business. I'm still working hard on new updates, I have some big plans.

Righ...

Some data loss due to database crash

Hi, one of the database servers crashed while I'm on vacation. I didn't have the tools with me to fix the issue immediately. Some files were lost due to inconsistencies in the database. If you are ...

Fixed a problem with subscriptions

Hi,

There was a problem with pixeldrain's mail server which caused the Patreon integration to fail. You were not able to upgrade your account to Pro in the last few days because of this. It h...

More sharing settings

Here I am again :-P

I have added some more advanced sharing settings for patrons with the Persistence tier or higher.

You can now add links to your top and bottom banners to point at yo...

Improved subscription process

Hello,

I have made it easier to activate your subscription on pixeldrain. All you need to do now is click a button on your pixeldrain profile page and your account will be upgraded.

Patreon's billing cycle

Hi,

Patreon has a limitation that it can only charge subscriptions on the first day of the month. This means that if you just signed up yesterday you will be charged again today. Patreon is w...

Removed storage limit for Pro and Resolve plans

Hello Patrons,

I have removed the storage limits for Pro and Resolve plans.

Have a nice day :-)

File viewer branding

Hello,

I have added branding options to the file viewer. Patrons with a supporter level of Persistence (€8) or higher get access to file viewer branding. You can use this to customize the l...