What's up with Filesonic these days?

Anyone else been having trouble with Filesonic lately? For the last few days, whenever I open a Filesonic link it starts to load the page and then freezes. I can kill the tab but the page that had the link is also frozen and has to be killed too. I'm getting this with every FS link and in all browsers. Anyone else experiencing this?

 

took me 3 hrs to download a 200mb file prem member

 

the last 2 days (48 hrs) is a real problem.

Not only in DL but mostly in site page (lot of errors etc.) Probably installing some server or updating something.DLs with jd seem to be ok page has sometimes access/load problems

 

Funnily enough it's been getting better for me recently. Fileserve has started becoming a problem though.

 

looks like it cleared up today r

 

Not for me. Still getting the same problem. At least I know it's not just me though. Thanks all.

EDIT: Turns out some pages are working but others are still as bad.

 

I've observed that Fileshare is now being used almost exclusively - even though it is a poor performer. What about Hotfile - it always works and works well, but is seldom used? Does Phun have anything against Hotfile? I'm both curious and frustrated.

 

I assume you mean Filesonic, dypsoman.

There are two main reasons why Hotfile is not being used much anymore:

1) Hotfile has recently been much more aggressive in deleting files and suspending accounts in the past month. Almost every poster here at Phun that was using Hotfile has had their account suspended. It's believed that Hotfile was under pressure due to several lawsuits for copyright infringement - the recent mass deleting of files and suspension of accounts was likely a "show of good faith" that Hotfile was not condoning piracy and such. Even though Hotfile is a pretty good standard of quality and speed, posters don't want to get burned by Hotfile again.

2) It's generally believed that Filesonic "pays" uploaders better than Hotfile. Filesonic's reward system is touted as fairly straight-forward (i.e. paid per download) while Hotfile has a whole tiered reward system claiming that users get rewarded more for uploading files that people want to download. I'm guessing the whole tier system can be confusing to most posters and some users claim that Hotfile has "fudged" the meaning of the tier system so they don't have to payout as much.

:2cent:

 

Probably a third reason is that, every couple of weeks (the last few days being a case in point) Hotfile melts down and free downloads don't work. When it does work, it's very fast but it's reliability is erratic.

 

Thanks mokkoriman - I did mean Filesonic. Too bad about hotfile. I lost on Rapidshare and now it looks like I'll lose on Hotfile - paid for premium use on both.

 

I've not had a problem with Filesonic,in fact I probably use that more than any other download sites.The worst has to be Oron,if I see download from Oron I just forget it.A shame really because it's less pictures for me to post on the Model forum.