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Right now I get users to select a file to use as their profile picture. Then I save the file locally to my server,…",{"id":118,"by":115,"text":119},"4293229","Oh, yeah I know. I just didn't have it a few weeks ago when I was doing something manually and it sucks. This makes it a lot easier :).",{"value":121,"source":102,"evidence":122},"Useful image conversion and resizing",[123],{"id":124,"by":125,"text":126},"4292872","thinkzig","This is the first I've heard of your service. It looks really cool. I would find the image conversion particularly useful. Is it possible to upload a file and have it saved at…",[128,135,143],{"value":129,"source":102,"evidence":130},"Pick-file page is slow to load",[131],{"id":132,"by":133,"text":134},"4292934","mamcx","I test this several times and found that the page to select files take a while. Plus, I suspect will be good to have a very prominent 1-default choice. 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