mediafire fucked?

[osjclatchford]

Hi there I think there might be something amiss with mediafire. just tried to upload a 6meg zip with a custom quake2 pak file in it (custom weapon skins) and for some obscure reason mediafire's uploader keeps spazzing whenever it reaches 45% and goes back to 0% again... ad-infinatum

anyone else had something like this? and no I'm not over my limit on mediafire...hell not even at 10% of capacity LOL

[zrrion the insect]

I haven't had that issue before. I'll certainly look out for it in the future though.
The only issue I've had is that it will sometimes not like PNGs that have been run through PNGout, but that doesn't happen all the time and isn't all that major.

[osjclatchford]

its an error 501 or something now...

really annoying and I don't know what that means or what I can do... sad...

[Accensus]

The only error I've ever had with Mediafire is when it told me I could not upload files for some reason (unsupported folder uploads or something; I was uploading a .pk3), but retrying the upload again usually did the trick. That's been fixed for a long time now.

[Nevander]

Me personally I'm getting this page swap pop up that goes to some "digitalprivacyalert.org" with a highly suspect big blue button in the center of the page. It's apparently legit because a URL scan of the site comes up clean on VirusTotal. Still very bad practice to make your file sharing service download links page swap with a random website about tracking.

Is a popup and ad-free file hosting service too damn much to ask for in 2016?

[amv2k9]

Is a popup and ad-free file hosting service too damn much to ask for in 2016?

Essentially, yes. Content uploaded to sites like Mediafire is not always legally on the up-and-up, which means lots of advertisers want nothing to do with them, which means sites like Mediafire sometimes have to take ad revenue from ethically questionable/incompetent/downright scummy advertisers.