The Ghost of RS
 

I agree that the RS section needs to be changed, regardless of the fact that there are spam problems with some of the pay-for-upload/download hosts. RS is dead, Rapidfind.org which was hands down the largest supporter of RS is now Bolt and supports different hosts which required an internal forum civil war in regards to the state of, and future of RS, and RS lost horribly. Due to a combination of getting to large (therefore being targeted by all the legal big guns from the media corps) and service restructuring from top to bottom RS lost all their uploaders and the paying downloaders that came with them to such a degree that I would say that 95% of all I download is no longer uploaded to RS in the first place. The simple fact is no one really uses RS at all anymore so it is, in effect, dead; I don't even visit the RS section here anymore and I was one of the strongest supporters of it.

My vote goes to either:
Oron
Fileserve
or
Hotfile

All three of which are not allowed here, along with Megaupload. My personal recommendation is Multiupload.

Fango

Speak for yourself. I use RS a lot for downloading and personally have had no problems. By all means use other hosts but keep RS aswell.

RS was good in that we only had to pay for one service. Oron is OK but still slow I don't mind which as long as it is not TOO expensive, fast and many use it

Well, since only RS is allowed in the RS forum, that much was assumed. I like multiupload as an option, I just don't see how using multi is any different than allowing Mega, Fileserve, or Hotfile considering multi supports those hosts. Correct me if I am wrong, but multi is simply the gate keeper for 3rd party servers like Mega and Hotfile, so why would Multi be allowed but not the 3rd party file hosts that Multi allows? :confused:

Either way, I like OCC not trolled by monkey spammers so if that would open the flood gates then I say keep them closed and upload to HC/SC board. :rolleyes:

You can make money by uploading directly to Megaupload/Fileserve/Hotfile by using their affiliate programs, which is against the rules: Multiupload has no such program.

Fango

As it stands, we still can only use rapidshare and hardly anyone (including me) is bothering to post there nowadays:(

I used rapidshare for 2 or 3 years and it was great, I had many Premium accounts by using the free points I made after I uploaded stuff on different sites but now I prefer to skip rs boards, I tried to use it again yesterday and to my surprise I downloaded like 2gb from someones account in free mode and it was without wait and with 1mb+ (maybe it was Happy Hour or something like that) Now it's not a great site but def not a bad one but I do agree we need more file sharing options...

Here's a few suggestions:

mediafire: not the best but acceptable speed in free mode and if I remember right there's no waiting limit
megaupload: best for free users
hotfile: there's a 15min wait limit between downloads but has a good d/l speed


Site's i hate:

Depositfiles; uploaded(to), uploading(com)...

Good thing for us we have very diligent mods looking out for us and keeping this site spam free, and making our visits here enjoyable. Keep up the good good work. OCC rocks:D

I use multiupload for my uploads, i think its better then rapidshare or any other site. I used Megaupload a lot too.