Changing addon downloads

[The Corporation]

I don't really know how to fix the title, or whether this is the right section, but I've gotten kinda sick of opening mediafire pages to download add-ons.

I think it would make more sense for it to be a direct download, such as opening the mediafire page or whatever page, and copying the address/URL and pasting it in your post, so we can still download from the site, but we don't have to go to it.

It's just really gotten on my nerves, and I figured I had to say something.

[Ad Bot]

[Nasoa]

Direct downloading takes you directly to the mediafire home page. Some use dropbox for that, i just link to RTB.

[The Corporation]

Direct downloading takes you directly to the mediafire home page. Some use dropbox for that, i just link to RTB.

Wait.
Last time I checked.
Hold up a sec-

http://download1344.mediafire.com/n2a9r6qdihzg/7429afq7k2i2fhy/Item_Glowstick.zip


No, it doesn't.
It just opens a new tab called untitled, then I download, then the tab closes.

[Nasoa]

That just took me to the regular download page.

[The Corporation]

That just took me to the regular download page.

What browser do you use?

[Nasoa]

What browser do you use?

Chrome.

[The Corporation]

Chrome.

Well it's not doing that for me.
Post a different link than mine.

[KoopaScooper]

From what I'm seeing, it gives each unique IP address a specific code (I just realized it's a cookie with vm tests, sorry) that allows it to go to the direct download through that link.
Unfortunately, this means you can't directly download an Add-On or anything else from MediaFire. Sorry.

[Chrono]

You can directly download it because your browser has the cookie for the session which allows that computer to directly download the file. This cookie is granted once you access the page once, but the session key will be different for everyone, thus they need their own direct link.

This can be prevented by either using a different host (RTB), or by getting a premium account (the uploader, not the downloader)

[Dr.Block]

Solution: Get everyone to use something better than Mediafire.

[The Corporation]

Solution: Get everyone to use something better than Mediafire.

As if everyone would go along with that plan.
Honestly, I don't like mediafire 1 bit.
At all

[Extrude]

Mediafire is the best. You get like 100 megabytes of space in the free account.

[otto-san]

Mediafire is the best. You get like 100 megabytes of space in the free account.

Dropbox gives you 2GB on a newly-made account and also does direct links and has a client for your computer.

I love Dropbox.

[Demian]

My 10gb at 20e/month works fine for me.

[Chrono]

I'm pretty sure even with a free account you have infinite storage space with mediafire. Just each individual file is limited to 200 MB.
I still prefer dropbox when uploading and downloading. Instead of having to open a browser, log in, upload stuff through some flash thing, kick ads in the nuts, and make sure my files aren't over 200 MB...
I can just double click the dropbox icon and drag a file into the public folder. No size restrictions per file, I just have to stay within my 2.75GB storage. Which isn't a very hard task.