JHoagland opened this issue on Apr 22, 2002 ยท 4 posts
JHoagland posted Mon, 22 April 2002 at 6:44 PM
My complaint is with people who host their free stuff on AngelFire.com. Please don't host your Poser files with them- there are so many other (free) hosts out there that give people far less trouble. (And if you can't find one, please post a message in the forum and we will happily guide you to a "good" hosting service). First, too many times, the thumbnail of the item displays as a distorted "This image hosted on AngelFire". This does me no good- why should I download the file if I can't see what it is? Second, when I do click to download a file, such as "Wendy" by Gringo3d (sorry, I don't mean to "pick" on him), I get 2, yes 2 annoying pop-up windows- one in front of my browser (so I can't see what the website) and 1 behind the browser (so I won't know it's there!)!! And when I try to block these pop-ups, using software such as AdSubtract, I get a "To better serve our customers, AngelFire does not allow the linking to files on our server."... in other words, deal with the pop-ups and annoyances or you aren't getting the file! So, I propose that we, as a community, stop using AngelFire to host our files. What does anyone else think? P.S. Click the included link to download the trial version of AdSubtract- an excellent program to stop the pop-ups, Java, etc. that annoy people. (Just be sure to turn it off when visiting sites, such as Renderosity, that require cookies.) --John
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