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Minus.com sharing site isn't fine. Rumors were true. They removed many features.
Some time ago I submitted http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4386799 to let others know about Minus sharing site allegedly trimming down their ability to upload any kind of files. It was denied by John Xie, but apparently Blake Barker (back then pretending to be Minus moderator and now maybe even having such position, I don't know) was right. It took only 2 months to come true.
The original info can be found in:
http://feedback.minus.com/topic/121115-why-are-files-converting-automatically/
Snapshot as of today: http://i.imgur.com/AYLsg.jpg
I created a proper bug report too:
http://feedback.minus.com/topic/122270-disallowing-files-other-than-videos-audio-and-images-shouldnt-be-even-considered/
Snapshot as of today: http://i.imgur.com/mBONs.jpg
Today noticing lack of "Download Folder" button I visited feedback.minus.com again and found out that Blake Barker has his so-called Minus: User Guide.
http://digitechguide.webs.com/project-minus#nabble-td18
http://digitechguide.webs.com/project-minus#nabble-td20
I haven't reverified file size limit recently, but checked other things and they are true.
FEATURES REMOVED
1. Linear/Grid Views
2. ZIP, EXE, etc. Anything that is not audio, video or images aren't allowed.
3. Download All feature. This feature originally limited download all feature to 500MB... the feature was simply removed and might be returning if Minus offers premium services in the future.
- przemoc 14y agoI don't know whether I need Prozac as someone suggested on the feedback site, but I do know that Minus is slowly and constantly losing its reputation of a great service it used to be. What's really bad is that all these changes aren't officially announced. When Minus was growing and still adding features, most of them were mentioned on their blog: http://blog.minus.com/ http://blog.minus.com/. Now you have to track obscure http://feedback.minus.com/ http://feedback.minus.com/ to learn about any new thing (i.e. mostly removals). What's the worst is that I was even assured that users would be notified upon removal of uploading non-multimedia files ability. http://www.reddit.com/r/MINUS/comments/y9c8b/soon_only_videos_audio_and_images_will_be_allowed/ http://www.reddit.com/r/MINUS/comments/y9c8b/soon_only_video... Snapshot as of today: http://i.imgur.com/3a8eT.png http://i.imgur.com/3a8eT.png But there was no such thing. Of course my post on /r/minus was invisible for a long time, so not many people could learn about upcoming changes, possibly until they were silently introduced... Why am I posting it? Who cares about some Minus? I believe some do care. It's also an example of how having a pretty good site you can start ruining it. I feel bad about it also because I was recommending the site to others back then and even quite recently (after John's reply), apparently just before Minus started to rip off its features. Is it how you prepare for introducing Premium Service, really?