MyMS Cache Payouts have been processed. Make sure to email support at megashares dot com with your Paypal email if you have over 25,000 cache points and would like to participate in the My Megashares Cache program.

We have received some emails, from our overseas customers, about timeouts and sudden dropped downloads. These emails started around December 20th, 2008. We have found the reason as to why, there were major cables that were cut that provided internet and phone to Middle East and Asia. Please read more about the situation here: http://www.reuters.com/article/rbssIntegratedTelecommunicationsServices/idUSLK37775420081220

We apologize to all. We had a bad crash that lasted approximately 8 hours. Anyone downloading with a counted linkcard would be charged a download, however, you still can complete it without another deduction - our system works like this by default.

As for new customers, we will have to re-create your linkcards and email them out. Support is already processing them and will have your linkcards emailed out ASAP. If you do not receive yours, please contact support.

MyMS Cache Payouts have been processed. Make sure to email support at megashares dot com with your Paypal email if you have over 25,000 cache points and would like to participate in the My Megashares Cache program.

We are still performing upgrades and increasing capacity. We hope to have this completed before the thanksgiving holidays to give our hard working engineers well deserved time off.

Had a small crash this morning. Engineering has resolved the issue. Nobody is hurt, everyone is fine. Sorry for the interruption.

Also, we will have a couple planned maintenance outages for upgrades in the next 48 hours. They should be under 30minutes and not noticed by most.

We are running behind on our MyMS Payouts due to minor technical issues with Paypal. You should receive yours by Nov 8 (within the next 48 hours).

--UPDATE-- Some payments were sent out and we experienced another technical issue. You will get your Payout for your cache points as soon as we can resolve the issue. We apologize for the delay to those yet to receive theirs.

Current ETA is Monday, November 10th.

--UPDATE-- All payouts have been issued.

We apologize on behalf of a very naughty switch. Many of you might be seeing lower download speeds than usual due to a switch that is awaiting replacement. We just recently upgraded a different switch and our guess is this switch got upset.

If experiencing slow speeds, we will extend your linkcard equal time until this switch is replaced which looks to be early to mid next week of Oct 6th.

We've opened up a Cafepress store! Enjoy your favorite articles of clothing, gifts and more with our famous Megashares logo and various captions (emphasis on humor).

Look for new product releases as we have encouraged the entire company to submit their witty captions and enjoyable artwork.

We had some downtime from a minor update to a switch. All is well now.

We've setup hotlinking for images under 1MB. We are rolling it out as a beta and it is free for all (requires registering a free My Megashares account).
If your image is hotlink-able, you will see a new list item and text box labeled "Hotlink:". We look to expand the hotlink features with more template text boxes for ease of pasting into your web pages and communities.
Hotlinked images currently fall under the same file retention policy (meaning impressions do not count as user downloads from megashares.com).

You asked: How long will Megashares keep my files without a download? Can it be increased?
We have received your feedback and complied to your requests!
We have increased our file retention policy to 45 days. 1 unique download in 15 days and 10 unique downloads in 45 days, then the 45 day counter will restart. This is a big jump from our previous FRP and is a nice middle ground until we role out subscriptions that include perpetual diskspace.

UPDATE:
many are asking what happened to older files as they have been removed. We issued the new policy today, that means anything uploaded previous to today was still bound to the old file retention policy. Feel free, as it is free, to re-upload any content that was removed and it will be placed under our new FRP.

We had a brief outage today during some network upgrades. They failed on the first attempt, and succeeded on a second go. We still have a couple more switches to schedule in. Any interruption during the next upgrade will be virtually transparent.

One of our large storage units needs to come offline for repair. The ETA for repair is 1-2 weeks. The data itself is fine and will be returned online after repairs are completed.

[update]
we have activated a snapshot on a backup server that has most of data available up to last week (~5 days).

One of our datacenters will be upgrading their backup systems between 2AM-6AM PDT. We do not plan to have any downtime or outages, however, it is best to be prepared in the event that an upgrade runs long or Murphy's law kicks in where if something can go wrong it will - meaning we will be monitoring their process and if we see the need we may turn down some connections to prevent sudden disruption.

[edit] this has been delayed due to parts not shipping on time. We will update or create a new quickblog when the next update is scheduled.

[edit] updates appear to be complete, however, we did experience a brief period of downtime. All is well now.

Over the next few days we will be upgrading both our front and back end systems. This will basically improve performance. There will be some content unavailable during some upgrades and at times other services will probably show degraded performance while associated systems execute necessary updates.

Soon links will appear when you reach certain My Megashares Cache Levels. These levels are outlined in the FAQ, but here's some exciting excerpts:

Extend your current (or any friend, colleague, etc) linkcard and ability to give points to another user (some need help, some like to help).

[edit]
We forgot to add that you can create a NEW linkcard from your cache points. There have been many emails (thanks!) asking if it is possible to create linkcards for other users, the answer is yes and we will support them as regular linkcard users!

this qb is getting long but just to be clear: you can extend ANY linkcard and you can CREATE a new linkcard, you can also extend a linkcard that has been created. Whatever your cache points allow you to do, go for it!

We've changed much here. New tab'd layout giving you more with a single click without pageloads or dialog boxes.

Many more features you will soon see come from your content portal - we'll continue to tik them off as we push 'em.

The Video/Image tabs are in testing. You can create a clip of videos you upload and we'll have lots of features to manage, manipulate and share your visual content.

[edit] we're pushing this code momentarily.

First qkbg (quickblog, the acronym may change at any given time for the sake of humor/insanity/mocking web society)... New Megashares layout. What do you think? (don't really tell us, we are not changing it j/k we will if your suggestion is super cool). If you do think you see a bug or something that makes your eyes twitch lettuce know.

We added a blog! Ahh, not really, it is more like a blog without the clutter, but not tiny like a twit(ter). This is Megashares QuickBlog, short update pops for you to read about what you see (like the new layout). The answers to questions will remain in FAQ and the updates/changes/maintenance to the site will be qb'd here.