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It's so beautiful I can't figure our how to use it. I read the about section, which seems to suggest that you should drag a file onto the browser, and then something will happen. I dragged a text file onto the red circle, and it just opened the file in the browser. No upload happened as far as I could tell. I'm using Opera 11.52 and Win XP. Am I just missing the point?

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You need to drag the file onto the Castle which is the large gray area on the bottom half of the screen.

I get the same result. It just opens the text file on my local machine for me to read.

I'll look into this.

Same, text file on Windows/Firefox. Other formats (PNG, SVG) were displayed in the browser without difficulty.

You mean you didn't test it for compatibility with major browsers.

The site was tested on Firefox, Chrome, Safari, and IE9.

I think he means he'll look into.

Same problem, windows XP/firefox 3.6. (dropping a .png file)

Incidentally, I found some text that says "Drag & drop your file onto the Castle below.", but it's white on white, so I was only able to notice it by selecting the text. If I had seen that text originally, it would have made the page slightly less mysterious.

The color is coming from line 1244 of https://castle.so/assets/application-85b2387ecd44d11edb66f04...

The text is supposed to be white; it's on a blue sky background.

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