For saving my ass again. So what was the story today. One user wrote to me that Iris is not compatible with Windows 7.
I immediately installed Windows 7 and tested and everything was OK.
Then I tried to download the new Iris version from this site.
And the .exe was broken. Why?
Couple of weeks ago the Iris server was crashing every 5 minutes. Not cool. This was, because I was hosting all versions on my server. Yes, but there was many downloads one day and you know. The people just killed https://iristech.co :D
I quickly ckecked available solutions and decided to move all files to Dropbox.
Yes, but today Dropbox decided to fuck me :D
I didn’t have the time to check WTF was this and quickly uploaded the latest version to my server. Iris was now available again at least.
Now I needed to find a way to host my files somewhere. I searched the web some time for CDN servers for large files.
As you know I work on Iris full-time and I am broke as fuck basically :D All CDN servers was paid. Then idea pop-uped in my mind to use GitHub for hosting. I tested this and it worked, at least for now. :D It’s super slow to upload all versions, but at least it’s free and will never crash.
So yes every version of Iris will be available from here: https://github.com/danielng01/Iris-Builds
Why I do this? As you know Iris is free only for 4 hours per day right now, but old versions are free.
I want everyone to have a chance to use Iris and that’s why I said to myself to protect and save the old versions of Iris, which are free.
Other than that I am not super awesome programmer and I am adding new features every day in Iris. Sometimes I break things. Sometimes I break many things. Having all versions will let you use at least some version that will be working you know :D
Why Dropbox gives this error? Dropbox is not bad. What this error means is mentioned here: https://www.dropbox.com/en/help/4204 Basically free accounts have limits of 20 GB per day and 100,000 downloads per day. Iris is not generated so much traffic, but whatever :D
Something special I added some really old versions on this repo. You can see Iris version 0.0.0 hahah :D Yes I know my versioning sucks, but whatever.
And once again I’m really sorry for that that Iris was not available for download several hours. :)
Sincerely yours, Dani