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Hi everyone,

Last night we rolled out a new update to our image hosting system and it may be causing some of your images to display a “file not found” or “image servers offline” error message. I just wanted to post a quick note to reassure everyone that all your files are still there and secure. Essentially the system is still updating all image content and re-rendering the thumbnails for every image currently hosted on MediaFire causing any image that has not yet been updated to display a temporary error. With over 40 million users now hosting with us that’s a lot of images to update! Fortunately, it shouldn’t take too much longer.

By popular request this update to the image hosting system also includes additional support for .png, .tiff, .ico, and .psd formats as well as most other commonly used image file formats and file extensions.

Just to clarify, your image files are still downloadable however thumbnails and embedded versions will appear offline or display an error until the system has completed updating them.

Thanks again for your patience. We’re excited to now finally be supporting even more image types for your galleries and for embedding in your favorite websites.

- Tom

Hey all,

The same updates that fired up (pun intended) your download links have also been applied to the image servers. All images hosted on MediaFire should now display nearly instantaneously making your galleries, embedded images, and direct image-links all much more snappy.

Here’s a few sample images hosted in my account:

Admittedly, I’m not the best photographer out there, but hopefully this gives you a small taste of the speed with which we are now able to serve images as well as files.

Hi everyone,

We just rolled out a big update today and your downloads should launch faster than ever. The update involves the systems behind the scenes that handle your download requests.  It’s transparent to the user except for the extra short time between clicking the link and your file downloading.

So what does this mean for you? Well for one it just makes downloading files that much faster and easier, but it also applies to files you stream or direct link with your MediaPro account – allowing them to start streaming even more quickly than before.

So that you can give it a try, I uploaded a few of the latest and greatest web browsers, just choose the one for your operating system to get a taste of the download speeds. If you haven’t tried these or you happen to still be running an older one, you can even install one of these highly recommended browsers to see if you like it.

Google Chrome (Windows Only)
MediaPro Direct LInk:
http://www.mediafire.com/file/jjm4jmt5y4l/ChromeSetup.exe

or from Google:
http://www.google.com/chrome

FireFox (Mac OSX)
MediaPro Direct Link:
http://www.mediafire.com/file/juzwyrgj2zw/Firefox 3.0.11.dmg

FireFox (Windows)
MediaPro Direct link:
http://www.mediafire.com/file/zizylwizyje/Firefox Setup 3.0.11.exe

FireFox (Linux)
MediaPro Direct Link:
http://www.mediafire.com/file/ezeq2umd1yn/firefox-3.0.11.tar.bz2.tar

Or download FireFox from Mozilla:
http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/firefox.html

Hi everyone,

Quick update to the site. By popular demand you can now upload the same file into multiple folders. This feature allows you to create duplicate files across your folders just in case you want to send a different set of files to different people.

To upload a file into more than one folder, simply repeat the upload process with the same file and select a different folder from the one you previously uploaded that file into. That’s it! Easy right?

Hopefully those of you who’ve requested this option will find it useful.
Let us know how you like it!

Cheers,

- Tom

Hi everyone,

Quick update to let you all know that a recent update to Adobe’s Flash player rendered many of the copy and paste links across the site unusable.  We’ve fixed the problem and all copy links should now be working again for you.  We’ve been busy adding capacity to the network to accomidate MediaFire’s continued growth and expansion but I’ll be brining you more updates soon. I hope all of your 2009’s are off to a great start!

- Tom

In the past few months the popularity of MediaFire has increased significantly and with it we’ve encountered many performance challenges along the way.  Recently we’ve focused our efforts on significantly optimizing the general performance of all components of the site in order to serve this increased demand as efficiently as possible.  Over the past few days we’ve rolled out several updates that are designed to increase page load speeds, rendering speeds, and generally make the experience of navigating your MediaFire accounts as quick and seamless as possible.  You should notice that pages load faster, most notably on the front page, download pages and on your My Files pages.  On a fast connection pages may already have been loading quickly enough that you might not notice too much of a difference, however in tests we’ve seen page load time cut by more than half on an average internet connection.  Let us know what you think!  There’s more to come too, so stay tuned for further developments in the coming weeks.

-Tom

Just a quick update for today. The file name character limit of 100 characters has been raised by popular demand. MediaFire now supports file names up to 255 characters. Fortunately the new My Files page will also better accommodate those longer file names. As always, please let us know if there are any other changes or additions that you’d like to see on the site and we’ll continue to do our best to fit in the most popular ones.

- Tom

Hi Everyone,

We rolled out a visual update to the My Files page today.  It’s been a while since we made any significant updates to the My Files page simply because it’s been working so well for everyone. As the site develops and grows however we’re making room for new features and improve on the foundation we’ve set.  You’ll notice that the refreshed version is significantly cleaner as we’ve reorganized the placement of basic file information from columns to the right of each file to a less obtrusive list below the name.  In addition to simplifying the appearance of the page, this update will set the foundation for additional functionality and features. It’s the first in a series of updates to the file management system that we’ll be releasing in the coming weeks.  If you haven’t seen the new design, just head over to your My Files page or check out the screenshot below.

Let us know what you think! We’d love to hear your feedback so that we can further improve the file management system as we continue to add additional features.

- Tom

Hey all, just one more quick update for tonight.

From your feedback we’ve been able to find and fix a few issues that were affecting some users tonight including the following:

• MediaPro statistics on the statistics overview page now work correctly
• Image gallery preview window scroll-lock was fixed
• Added support for deleting web uploads that are completed
• Minor bug fixes to web uploads
• Added more documentation for how bandwidth works

As always, let us know if you run into any other bugs and we’ll squash them as quickly as possible. On a side note, now that the lines at the Apple stores around San Francisco have died down slightly, I was finally able to get my hands on a new iPhone 3G today and I’m absolutely loving it. Hope I’m not sounding like too much of a fanboy here but we’ll be seeing a lot of great innovation in the mobile industry now that the paradigm is shifting to the phone as a truly capable computing platform. No doubt cloud services will become an increasing crucial part of all our digital lives which is why we’re dedicated here to make sure we’re providing one of the most efficient and simple to use methods of storing and transporting all that data.

Thanks again everyone,
-Tom