James_IcedriveJames_Icedrive
James_Icedrive
Apr 8, 2020

Q: Hey Sumo-lings!

Thanks for a great experience here on AppSumo!

The feedback you have all provided has been excellent - It has been pretty intense but we collected as much information as possible and during the campaign we have managed to:

- Optimize our backend API server, everything is now lightning fast
- Recoded our Android app, many reports were explaining how the backup and auto upload features were not working on some devices. We redid the whole thing and released a few days ago!

-And... the Windows Drive app:

This was a big critique with you guys, a lot of the feedback we got was out of the blue, things we have never had reported before, so we dove in and took a look and today we released a new version with the following fixes:

- File copy speeds increased dramatically - up to 1000% in some cases
- API greatly improved, listing dirs now extremely fast
- Cache lifetime of directory listing reduced and more regularly pulled from API to show more up-to-date cloud listing
- CPU load dramatically decreased during copies, now remains basically untouched.
- Copying files from local to icedrive using shortcuts
- Copying files out of icedrive to local using shortcuts
- Fixed file saving errors (aka Atomic writes) with certain applications when editing files in the drive
- Deleted files sometimes would show in listing until refresh, now displays correct results
- High DPI display support
- Ability to cancel current upload queue
- Using "Move" operations now results no errors
- Mount now incredibly stable due to performance optimizations
- Much larger queues supported due also to performance and stability upgrades
- More precise cache management

It was clear to go forward, we must first take a step back and get everything perfected first, so now the focus is on the new!
Currently we are doing the following updates to the webapp, which should be live next week:

- Grant users read or read and write access to folders, manage and revoke access.
- Upload to other users folders, and vice versa
- New download methods using new browser streaming technology. Allowing for recursive encrypted file downloads in ZIP

Further down the line, ahead of schedule in the next 6-8 weeks we expect to have selective folder sync support, and team-based/Business level account ready to go.
We've had a lot of requests about "sweetening the AppSumo deal" and we have listened to some great feedback. In hopes of continuing to help out sumo-ling businesses, we plan on offering all of our AppSumo customers a special invite to our Business Plan (our highest tier) which will have many popular features requested that we could not offer during our AppSumo campaign due to high overhead costs. These features include branding, white-labelling, domain A record forwarding, direct hosting (hotlinking) and more.

Though the AppSumo campaign may be coming to an end - it feels like a new beginning & we can't wait to show you what we can do in the future!

Kind regards,
James

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Will the new user function allow me to share my ice drive with teammates? Is this feature included in this deal?