cgcgcg Just came across the banner on Zippyshare and wanted to share with the community We’ve decided that we’re shutting down the project at the end of the month. Please make backups of your important files, you have about two weeks to do so. Until then, the site will run without any changes [Login to see the link]
silversurfer trungpt It is affecting our community as some user ask for stuff to be uploaded to Zippyshare as it's easy and fast to download from them as a non premium user.
myaddibqizac Too bad. Why are they closing? Well, it's good that they gave time, unlike uploaded.net which only gave some days before it closed.
Bensonmum myaddibqizac Why are they closing? [Login to see the link] I still remember well how they started in 2006. And what stupid rumors came up, e.g. at AvaxHome. Something like "this is a trap; the FBI is behind it; it's all about catching the identity of you uploaders" etc. What a load of crap. At that time RapidShare, Share-Online.biz and Megaupload were the top dogs among the on-click- hosters. Ah yes, the good old days with the sound of steam-powered 56k modems. 🙂 Login to see the link
rigan Rest in Piece, Childhood friend, when there are list of filehosts in mirror service, I always check the zippyshare first
EbeneZ Bensonmum Something like "this is a trap; the FBI is behind it; it's all about catching the identity of you uploaders" etc. What a load of crap. they did it with a binnews service though 😉
gregalus Uthred Yes. And no alternative if I'm not mistaken. Perhaps someone knows of any? I've always wondered where they get the money for it. I think they have started to wonder too. 🙁
Angulio gregalus there are few alternatives : 👋 [Login to see the link] [Login to see the link] [Login to see the link] [Login to see the link] [Login to see the link] [Login to see the link]
patl Oh no... why is it closing. It was very easy to use. Some of us will definitely miss it. Is there another good one to use.?
dred05m Sad news for us all as community. Zippyshare is a great non-advertise file sharing service, wish they can re-think this abort mission.
karolus Some relevant alternatives to zippyshare: [Login to see the link] [Login to see the link] [Login to see the link] [Login to see the link] [Login to see the link] [Login to see the link] [Login to see the link] ---20GB Free ⬅️ [Login to see the link] ---Upload up to 3GB of files, free of charge, without registration. Files are available for download for 7 days. ⬅️ [Login to see the link] [Login to see the link] ⬅️ You limit the time, from 7 to 14 days, to download the available file. However, after a test upload/download, I couldn't do it (download), from the site page, despite trying to drag out of the page the file to be downloaded, the download didn't happen. Only by copying and pasting the download link into jdownloader did it work. Research sources: Some sites are paid for and some no longer exist. [Login to see the link] [Login to see the link] [Login to see the link]
gregalus [Login to see the link] Maybe it would be worth pinning a list of free file sharing services to the community homepage ? Or move to free resources?