Rapidshare Changing/New Model
 

Hello fellow DSFers and happy holidays,

I'm wondering if anyone else has been experiencing decreased user friendliness of rapidshare over the past few months. Specifically, every time I try to download something from a shared link in the forum it tells me that there are no more free slots and I should upgrade or try again later. Is this due to popularity of their site increasing or the number of times that I have already downloaded content from their servers?

Also, as someone who may be forced to pay for service, can someone "in the know" explain the benefits and drawbacks of the site compared to others like megaupload? I've always wondered why we didn't use it (megaupload) more since it didn't cap the amount of downloads that one could do in a given period of time. I assumed there must have been a reason others didn't use it more but never took the time to ask. Any expertise that you all have to share would be appreciated.

Thanks, Joe

gotta love a guy named toker Joe, but try doing a search. This is an old topic that has been exhausted in this forum. If you don't want to pay for the service you are just going to have to put up with the dl restrictions.

i'll be honest, i figured that there would be another thread but every thread that has a link shared in it returns when i searched for variances of "rapidshare." I'm fine with the DL restrictions but was more interested in the proggie comparisons.

I hear ya smoky Jose, Mega has turned out to be the better service IMO. Rapidshare sold out. I think as a free user Mega might be a better choice too. For me it is worth it to pay for both. The Megamanager is a great little program free from Mega that works great for interupted dl's.
When you search, go to advanced search and search in title only. Then you get all this.
http://www.drunkenstepfather.com/for...archid=1687060

the simplicity of that advice has me feeling like a total turd. i wouldn't consider myself a noob by any means but can not justify doing that a long time ago :(

Thanks snakedude

Agreed on all counts. I pay for both, and I've downloaded the manager for each. Megamanager is preferrable, but the rapid one does the job nicely. For as much free stuff there is here I think paying for the services is worth it.

nah, you're just a lazy motha fucka:)

That fuckin rapid manager does not work on my system. I get runtime errors. I thought after I formatted and reinstalled XP it would work but I still have the same problem. There is absolutely nothing on the rapidshare web site either. They totally suck as far as support.

well if your an uploader rapidshare is great........I paid for 2 months and then started to upload and never paid again for over a year, just keep using a few of my to get more months.

as much as i download, i'm happy to pay. still use RS cuz it's more popular, but i'm hoping something else will come along.