A calmer tmp0
We took out the gradients, the glow and the icon tiles. What is left is one mark, one sentence and the buttons you need.
tmp0 does three things: it shares files, it shares text, and it sends a file straight from one browser to another. Over time the site had started to explain all three at once, with a subtitle, a keyboard hint, outlined links, glowing cards and a dot grid in the background. Today we are switching to a quieter version, and this blog is part of it.
One sentence and three buttons
The start page now says what tmp0 is in one line: share a file, it disappears. Below it are three buttons. Upload files is the light one, because that is what most people come for. Paste text and Direct transfer sit next to it.
Everything you could do before works the same way. Drop a file anywhere on the page, or press Ctrl+V to paste text. Once you pick a file, the password, expiry, download limit and burn-after-reading options are right there.
A new mark
Every page now starts with the same mark: an arrow pointing up, with a stem that fades into dashes. A file goes up, and then it is gone. It replaces the cloud, code and transfer icons that each page used to have.
Less of everything else
- The background is one flat colour. The gradient and the dot grid are gone.
- Buttons are flat pills. The light one is always the action we expect next.
- Pages for deleted, expired or missing files are a headline, a sentence and a button.
- The footer is one row of small links in the corner, with your dashboard or the Discord login at the end.
Colour only where it means something
We used to give boxes and icons a colour each, which made it hard to tell what mattered. Now colour is kept for the things you should notice: red when something gets deleted or goes wrong, and green or red for the result of a virus scan.
The privacy policy, the terms and the other legal texts are easier to read as a result. The type is larger, the coloured boxes are now neutral, and lists use simple marks for what we store and what we don't. The wording has not changed.
A blog, finally
This is the first post here. We will use the blog to explain how tmp0 works and why we build it the way we do: encryption in your browser, the transparency log, and changes like this one. The newest post shows up under the buttons on the start page, and there is an RSS feed if you want to follow along.