What's Up With Rapidshare? + New File Hosts

Flexible we need to be. Personally I am experimenting with MU instead of RS.

Two suggestions:
1. mandatory tag of the title with the file host
2. mandatory file details (size, type) either on the screen caps or in writing

EDIT: also the rate this thread option should be activated (at least for me it doesn't work) and encourage users to vote

then let the downloaders choose

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yes please, browsing phun right now isn't fun anymore if you don't have every account..

 

Yes, it's a shame that RS are changing but we went from napster to kazaa to limewire to bittorrent so we all know change happens and we happily move on.

In it's place, I've opted for MU as it offers good upload and download speeds, nice interface and the rewards program seems no better or worse than any other. The key for me, however, having used MU without a premium account, it is by a long way the best offering for the free user: A 45 second delay before you can download a file and practically no waiting between downloads for multiple part files - And at an excellent download speed.

Hotfile seems to be the next best option with its 60 second waiting time but, having to wait a further 30 minutes between downloads is not so good.

Sharingmatrix (or whatever it's called) is just bollocks. I've had the 10 minute loop in IE, Firefox and Opera so don't go telling me my browser's to blame when it's blindingly obvious the site's coding is so poor.

I'm going to run my RS account for as long as possible but, as files get nuked (as they inevitably will) I will transfer them to MU. All my new posts will be on MU and I may offer a mirror on RS but I haven't quite made up my mind about that yet.

I have already called for post titles to be tagged with the initials of the filehost here: http://forum.phun.org/showthread.php?t=505512&page=2 and would echo the call for this to become absolutely mandatory for all new posts. I have nothing against anybody that wants to post on HF or SM but I would rather not download from either and would prefer to see at a glance whether I want to bother with a particular post or not. My thanks to the small percentage of members that have already adopted this practice.

Finally, I would also call for a 5 post daily topic limit. Since the new filehosts were allowed, there have been an average of 10 new pages worth of posts every 24 hours which is double what it was before. This is just ridiculous.

As I've said before, quality please people, not quantity!

 

Same here. It's just a shitty filehost.

 

Well i got me an HF account it's okay DL some clips i never could get on RS..
Tho aone think i hope the mods here do is have a rule where you gotta say what host is being used in the thread title.

 

This thing with RapidShare and the way the rest of the "sub-standard" file hosting sites are operating could lead people back to the safer P2P programs such as WinMX, etc.....

However, Not having previews with P2P's is a draw back.

It will be interesting to see if another file hosting site out there can provide what's needed.

 

Another Detail about Rapidshare...
I had a look at the premium account details. While not too long ago, the daily download amount was 2.5GB, and a bit longer ago was 5GByte, I believe, they now changed the daily download amount to 1GByte. Not really that much, resulting in a 150% price increase.
Further, they before had an optional pack : for 100GByte 10Euros or 10dollars. This now changed. They claim a GByte was 5 points, and when you exceed the 1GByte, they kick in the 5GB option for one day, costing 20 points, aeh, the 4 additional GB times 5 points. Too bad, if you just exceed the 1GByte by 10 bytes. An extremely customer unfriendly behaviour. I complained about this rip-off. Lets see what they answer.

 

P2P's were never safe and they will never come back.

 

You could look at it this way. With the old RS system you had 30 days for a one month account. Period.

If you didn't download for one week, too bad. You still lost those days.

Now with the "rapids" you get 600 rapids to spend as you wish. The bare minimum is spending 4 rapids/day which would make the account last for 150 days! That means if you don't download for a week you barely lose out... I often go out of town for a week or two and my RS account is wasted.

The flip side is also better. Let's say that you download over 1GB a day, they auto bump you up to the next level. Then if you exceed the next level they bump you up to the next level.. YOU WONT run into the 5GB per day limit anymore! Then when you are done for the day just set your account back to the 4rapids per day level. It will take effect the next day.

 

SM has been effectively unavailable to me for 72 hours. To put it down to "browser problems" is nonsense. I think it's a deliberate move by SM. They want to force as many users as possible to take up subscriptions while the momentum is pushing in their direction. Look how quickly they pulled off their coup across virtually all the clip forums. Check the posts from 6 or more months ago and you see a good mix of file-sharing hosts, mostly RS. Then almost over night it all SM.

Read this and it will help you see why:

http://filesonicblog.blogspot.com/2010/07/how-to-make-10-day-for-1-hour-working.html

SM is spawning a race of cynical money-grubbing dickwads.

 

I've earned free premium accounts on RS, HF, & SM now very easily within the last week. So I'm curious for those who download as free users and don't upload much, isn't it better now with multiple hosts being used? RS was never great for free downloaders, just the uploaders who loved it and made it popular. With mirror options added to many topics don't you get more faster now?

 

The ONLY thing Phun has gotten out of this is an influx of shitty, low-quality posts that litter up the board like a pile of rotting fish in the middle of the living room. In case I haven't made my feelings on the situation clear up to now.

The cause: CASHWHORES

 

For those of you who know me, while I did have a few problems with RS, I have never bad mouthed them (except for the a-holes who report links), but alias, the good days as a Premium member at RS do seem to be gone for good.

I extended my account for a year off of points and I still have over 250,000 points. But as someone else said, I have no idea of how good this will be.

Under the new Premium Zone, I have yet to be able to upload anything. So, I have switched over to MegaUpLoad as my primary host.

With regards to HotFile and SharingMatrix, as a free user, these two hosts suck IMHO. S-l-o-w d/l speeds (SM is worse the HF) and l-o-n-g wait times between d/l's (this can add 2 - 3 hours to d/l'ing a large split file).

I beg to differ. At least in the early days of RS, free users didn't have to wait too long (as long as you did not exceed your d/l limits) and the d/l speed was only slightly better than as a Premium user.

However, unless you use a mirror sharing site for which you have no control over and don't get any points, uploading to more hosts takes more time.

 

That might be a reasonable arguement if RS wasn't whored for points & used to be whored for cash too, and MU wasn't also whored for cash. MU's rewards program is limited to files under 100MB, that's why this forum is full of files split on MU for now reason other than to qualify for that.

And I've noticed you bashing others purely on their post counts here, where are your uploads in all your posts here? I see 44 threads started and 1 video topic with a youtube link. Files hosted on the newer hosts are better than none.

 

You can use your RS Premium account to only upload the file yourself to them, then remote upload for free to HF and SM. Just put your username & password from your RS Premium account into your RS links. Like this

Code:

http://username:[email protected]/file...

Just export your download link list from the RS premium zone, copy & paste to Notepad, then use the Edit>Replace function to insert it into all your links.

Then submit them to the remote upload fields of the other hosts, except MU which requires you be a Premium member before you can remote upload to them. All you have to do is wait a little while to post your uploads, and you can offer interchangeable links where people can download parts of a large file from 3 different hosts.

 

nothIng more to ad to what has already been said!

but, Rapidshare are fuckheads, they've fucked themselves up the ass over this, no-ones gonna stick wIth em now

Rapidshare are fuckheads​

 

Thanks for the info. Sad to see whats happening with RS, but times change.
Lets see what happens...who fills the gap RS will leave.

Thanks guys.

 

Well then, allow me to retort.

I don't think X-Spectre is necessarily arguing against the use of multiple hosts for downloading. For free users, I think it would be hard to find a hard argument from them that gives them faster downloading and easier access to files shared here.

What the main discontent that X-Spectre and many longtime Phun members (myself included) is the humongous amount of thread posts - a large percentage of them low quality scenes, reposts or just general spamming - in the past week that, not coincidentally, happened around the same time Hotfile and Sharingmatrix was allowed. Easy to see why - there's better and easier profit incentives to post using Hotfile and especially with Sharingmatrix (as SM has all sorts of promotions this month for uploaders to cash in) rather than Megaupload and Rapidshare. Like X-Spectre stated: CASHWHORES.

If you want to believe that the crazy increase of Hotfile and Sharingmatrix post links cannot be contributed to newly joined members and inactive members posting to make a quick buck with little regard to quality of content or to the rules of Phun, well that would be rather naive.

That being said, with Rapidshare not being a real viable filehost for uploaders, there will be a need for at least one additional filehost and the admins at Phun wanted to see how Hotfile and Sharingmatrix could work out for free users. So far from what I've read from feedback of other users, Hotfile has been working out better than Sharingmatrix for free users.

In the end, it's really up to Cayne and the admins at Phun what direction this forum will take - and ultimately, we as uploaders will adjust as we can. My hope is we can keep Phun as a place that is fun.

I agree to this to a certain extent.

Rapidshare will definitely lose a lot of brand market share as it transitions from a filesharing service to file storage service. And of course, all of us who have been using their service for years now are quite discontent that we have to find other ways to share our porn.

However, as Megaupload, Hotfile, Sharingmatrix and other filesharing services get the traffic from Rapidshare exilers, are all those hosts going to be (1) able to handle the new amount of users, filesharing traffic and uploads and (2) able to turn a profit with the increased traffic? It may very well be that Rapidshare - while taking this risk to their business model - is trying to ensure their future and we all, as uploaders, may need to pay to host our files in the very near future from all filehosting services.​

 

Before you start stuffing your foot in your mouth or up your arse, as the case may be, maybe you should check your facts. I download VERY little from the Sexy Vids section and admittedly upload less, my main use of Phun is within the General Forum (social interaction), Celeb section and Amateur Models, and as Mokkoriman said above, how coincidental IS it that all this lousy cashwhore spamming started AFTER SM and HF were approved when the forum operated just fine with very little of that crap before they were approved? My complaint with all the spamming is that it pushes down the quality of EVERYTHING posted on Phun by making it harder to get anything but that shit noticed and for the most part shit it is. Now crawl back under your rock and continue to post or not, I'm sure you wouldn't be missed one way or the other, Oh and for the record I have nearly 5k posts.

 

well said.

X-Spectre speaks the truth.