Cool website, man. Appreciate the stripped-back design - gotta ask though, is there a possibility of getting an IRC channel set up in addition to the Discord? Maybe on Rizon?
Comment in Feedback 09/04/2023 01:35 * — Anonymous: "audrado60"
Big kudos to admin for creating this great website which is quite helpful and useful and offers a lot of information on each episode from media info to screenshots to subtitles. Your work is definitely appreciated here, admin 👌 🤟 😉 😎
You'll probably see a bunch of people helping out in the comments, so AT isn't a one-man job. I do take care of the programming/servers though; I suppose you could say there's multiple skillsets in there, but many websites out there are managed by one person, so it's not particularly unique.
admin is the one with all the skillsets and the creativity to make this site happen. Such a combo of talent, creativity and knowledge is rare. There are some staff who help out a bit in the background but not much moderation has generally been required here.
Hey, @admin, I have a delicate question but really curious. Is it just you that runs this site or are there multiple people? Judging by the FAQ tonality seems like you are a one man army, but the site requires a lot of different skillsets, not to mention frequent moderation. Fully understand if you don't want to disclose this.
In any case, long time user here that just keeps coming back so I also want to say thank you for the hard work that lead to one of the last good places on the internet.
I'm glad that AT was just part of the load. It has always been notable that admin only ever used what hosts freely offered. There have been times when people wanted him to try and evade a host's intent but that wasn't admin's way.
I don't think we've quite reached the end of free ddl-services, but if we ever do it will have been a great and clever ride.
We all know ZippyShare 2008-2023 is gone forever, It became a filehost legend the moment it shutdown to any new services. Because it began and ended services on its own terms. It wasnt forced to shutdown by the movie industry's long arm of the law. The F.B.I..
But is it really gone for forever, yet?
--------> NO!!!! (every ZippyShare file link tried is still valid and working)
This just an observation, in no way does this indicate a change in their status
"Hello weary wanderer, Here lies Zippyshare [2006 - 2023], once upon a time a fairly big file hosting site blessed with a loyal and loving community. Before you leave, consider whether any of the following services will make your onward journey somehow easier and safer. Farewell."
Comment in Feedback 03/04/2023 01:28 * — Anonymous: "casino"
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Comment in Feedback 02/04/2023 20:24 * — Anonymous: "DrozFauth"
Comment in Feedback 31/03/2023 22:11 — Anonymous: "concerned_citizen"
Welp, it's official, Zippyshare is no more :(. F!
Comment in Feedback 31/03/2023 20:08 — Anonymous: "concerned_citizen"
Seconded, thanks admin! A small tidbit, Krakenfiles also has a good script for downloading: https://github.com/tha23rd/py-kraken. Works well from what I've tried.
Comment in Feedback 31/03/2023 15:19 * — Anonymous: "AndrewrukHunterwaa3"
Thanks for the review. Kraken seems very usable and seems to also have decent retention here on AT, speed not as good as zippy, but fine (2-20MB/s, zippy can easily reach 1Gbps on most of their servers). No captcha or other annoyances at least and download can be scripted. As for the usenet suggestion: free usenet can be had, but it's either slow(500KB/s-1MB/s on free providers) or it's as even more hassle to get both fast and free as the paid DDL providers - I mostly bother with it when every other option failed. At that point just using torrents with a proxy setup that doesn't leak your IP (harder than you think to get right without just outright buying a seedbox, but very doable if you know what you're doing) is less hassle than high speed usenet without actually paying for it yourself, but torrenting through a proxy, even if can be very fast (I've maxed out 1Gbps before) hurts the torrent as seeding doesn't work nearly as well (can't open a listen port for wide majority of proxies and even some VPN providers that are supposed to do this right get it wrong often).
3/24 Great suggestion and even better its already been implemented!! Thanx for adding it and being the kind of Admin that welcomes suggestions and ideas for improvement.
Just learned about ZippyShare going offline soon from what's posted on their site. They must be depressed to make such a simple mistake in their message written. "We plan to shut down the site at the end of the month. Backup all you important files. More information is available on our blog" "Backup all you.....??" LoL
Zippy outlasted so many filehosts. It's sad were losing it but the fact they are shutting down on their own terms it has nothing to do with fricken DMCA bullshit is great.
Glad to help, I've seen it in use elsewhere (when I wished that content used Zippyshare), figured the least I could do is suggest it. I know AT uses a lot of space/bandwidth, glad to know it's a good fit. :)
Its not so much about profits but about costs. File hosting is quite expensive. I know many do think about web hosting with *unlimited storage and bandwith* but that's a lie, many do warn and then stop or charge access if you exceed that. And just think about storage - on zippy level we are not talking about a few gigs webhost, not even tb but petabyte. And what - the biggest HDDs do have 16-22TB (be aware of cost/TB) and cost ~ 250 up each, but you do need many to fill s.t. like this https://www.broadberry.de/petarack.php (which needs also to be bought + server). You're probably going to have multiple servers and some redundancy and backup too. Lastly after a certain time you need to exchange these drives. And that's only hardware, which even rented is just more like a form of leasing you need to buy for that extensive traffic too. So don't in the slightest think this comes any cheap. Manageable with paying customers or extensive advertising, but yeah, was even wondering how zippy did it.
What if instead of profits, this is an attempt to prove you can't stop cyber-lockers. Does it succeed? I don't know if it proves anything. Would users follow a name to the next domain, how would they find the next domains.
Yeah, there is none, you can check it loads a rather small script, bits of css, images and server statistics by provider. Btw. you may check the dns entries ^^ https://sarek.fi/whois/ and proxy.is - else its rel secure HSTS might be added and few more definitions. But yeah as it is now it is quite ok. But dunno how they will pay it out.
Comment in Feedback 28/03/2023 11:20 — Anonymous: "concerned_citizen"
One of the things that baffles and the reason I was most suspicious of these is how the f do they turn a profit. Not even Ublock finds anything. Kinda like AT ;).
At least AT specifies it's run out of pocket by admin.
10/04/2023 22:19 * — Anonymous: "RobertTew"