Sompi: wow first time I hear of that. You mean literally the CDF format or just the MS office formats du jour?

tomman: some people *are* confused because of the name of the current (well, unless they changed again) MS office formats, and may send you the MS one thinking they're targetting OpenOffice... less of a problem now that OpenOffice became less common (there's a thing here that's perhaps only those on non-linux OSes were actually using what is now still OpenOffice, linux distros were often using the go-oo

set of patches that became LibreOffice)

These days is mostly moot as long as you're using bleeding edge versions of everything :D

I mean, everybody is using Office 356.25, amirite?

Or Gaggle Docs

google docs at least have handy direct download URLs, I'm surprised that still works

01:54 <+tomman> Sompi: normal people don't even know what's a "file format"

I think they used to...

well I could have used THIS like 8 years ago accreditly.io/articles/create-a-chu…in-js-and-php-to-handle-large-files

of course I see how as-is it is insecure

so yeah.. git hosting is simple as fuck for the public clone part

just have the bare repo and run a command to prep it for dumb http and point a webserver at it

which is awesome