Posts by derek

Twitter Feed Coming Soon!

We have been working with the social media folks at Bob’s Blitz to retrieve a twitter account. They anticipate this being done soon and we appreciate all the help. Show the guys at Bob’s Blitz some love! Derek

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MediaFire Uploads up to 60% Faster

MediaFire uploads are now up to 60% faster then previously. Our new upload server, Big Upload, was released Friday and has shown up to a 60% increase over our previous implementation. This change is currently only for the Advanced uploader, not the basic uploader. There were a couple of bugs that have been fixed as…

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MediaFire comes to Facebook

Now, for what will likely be the most important news you read all day:  MediaFire has a Facebook page!  Have a seat, takes some deep breaths, relax and click the like button below! Derek

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Quick Start to Downloads

We have released a new version of our web server for file downloads, Big Download, which has some performance enhancements.  Starting downloads should now be 60% to 95% faster.  Downloads could previously take .3 to 3 seconds to start.  They should now start almost instantly after clicking ‘Click here to start download’ link. In the…

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Some minor tweaks

For users with a large amount of files in your account, we have a new MyFiles loading status bar that will  indicate the progress loading files including the amount of second elapsed and the number of files thus far loaded. Uploader controls have been retooled to make them more intuitive, the minimize feature of the uploader is…

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Partial outage yesterday due to DDoS attack

We had sporadic website outages throughout yesterday due to a large and extremely distributed denial of service attack largely originating from China Telecom. Starting at 9:51 AM CT we started receiving spoofed TCP connection requests.  During the attack we were receiving 99.87% invalid connections requests.  The attack was aimed at our web server firewall and load…

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Improved Navigation

Improved Navigation for Images When viewing an image, you can now click on the image and a popup menu will allow you to quickly move forward and backwards in the gallery, you can go to a larger or smaller size and you can access share options. Improved navigation on the MyFiles Page On the MyFiles…

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Update an existing URL with a new file!

Sharing URL’s have been shortened further, you can continue to use the http://www.mediafire.com/?sharekey=<key> or shorten those URL’s to http://www.mediafire.com/?<key>. File Updates arrives!  You can now update an existing file/url with a new file without having to change the original URL.  This is great if you need to update a file but don’t want to repost…

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Image Rotation, Private Notes and Multi-Custom URL’s!

Several new features added to the site today. MediaPro users now has the ability for multiple custom URL’s, ex. http://www.mediafire.com/custom_url.  Free members still have access to 1 custom URL. Shared folder URL’s are now much shorter. Images can now be rotated 90, 180 and 270 degrees. Password protected files can be downloaded through the Premium…

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