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Mozilla's Send is Basically the Snapchat of File Sharing (theverge.com)
Mozilla has launched a new website that makes it really easy to send a file from one person to another. From a report: The site is called Send, and it's basically the Snapchat of file sharing: after a file has been downloaded once, it disappears for good. That might sound like a gimmick, but it underscores what the site is meant for. It's designed for quick and private sharing between two people -- not for long-term hosting or distributing files to a large group. It supports files up to 1GB, and after uploading something, it'll give you a link to send to someone else. That link will expire once they've downloaded it or once 24 hours have passed.
https://xkcd.com/949/
I know my parents want something like this.
FTP is set up to provide a remote file system access, with directories, subdirectories and different access rights to different areas.
And it has the ability to traverse restrictive firewalls through the secondary socket used for data being set up as active (PORT) or passive (PASV). And the ability to have data servers that serve the content, while the control channel server only handles the authentication and command parsing.
What it is not intended for is security. There are add-on extensions, but it's still not a good choice.
Nor is it suited for easy configuration. The great majority of FTP servers are incorrectly set up, especially regarding firewall rules, where the admins (and I use this term loosely) do not understand the difference between incoming and outgoing ports and directions, and now FTP is somewhat special here, in that it uses two sockets, not just one, and one of them might be in the other direction and needs a reverse firewall rule.
These days, sftp has all but taken over for ftp for automated / command line use, and web based upload/download for the masses.