Posts by Tom

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…

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…

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…

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,…

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…

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…

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…

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…