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Everyone hates broken links

And it seems like every time simmers find a good hosting service to put their files on, something goes wrong. Mediafire has dodgy ads. Megaupload went offline. Dropbox only offers 3GB. 4Shared started requiring a login to download (whyyy). And now Box.com isn’t refreshing bandwidth. Not to mention, simmers’ files are constantly deleted due to spurious copyright claims or purged for being old.

How many times have you found an awesome bit of CC, only to find the link is broken? Or had to go through your entire blog replacing all your links – or instead just given up and stuffed them all higgeldy piggeldy in a folder?

When simmers are offering mirror links on different hosting services by default, what we need is a better hosting service.

So we made a better hosting service!

SimFileShare is designed and maintained by nyshabrokeit and Delphy, and we’ve done everything with simmers in mind. SimFileShare can only be used for hosting sim content. This means we can tailor our features to simmers, instead of trying to cater to everyone like other services. We will be offering…

Free, unlimited file hosting – No limits on individual or total filesize, bandwidth, or number of files

Handy extra features – Currently you can view download stats and graphs for your files, organise your files into folders and share individual files or whole folders, and heart other people’s files to let them know they’re appreciated. If anyone comes up with any other awesome features we should have, we will seriously consider adding them.

But more importantly…

We guarantee that your links will never stop working

Simmers are an odd group, in that we really want our files to stay available forever – they don’t get out of date or irrelevant after a while. And this is the thing that other file hosts have failed miserably at. So SimFileShare has three ways of guaranteeing that your files won’t vanish:

We won’t change your URLs – Even if you move your files into a different folder, or if we change the way we make new URLs, we won’t change existing URLs at all. That means your links will never be invalid.

We won’t delete your files – We won’t delete files for being old, not having been downloaded in a while, or for belonging to someone who hasn‘t logged in recently. The only time we’ll delete files is if we receive a confirmed, legitimate copyright complaint – and because SimFileShare will only host sim-related files, we’ll know to be sceptical of anyone claiming that they contain copyrighted material.

Even if the site closes, your files won’t be lost – We’re not planning to ever close SimFileShare. But if that does happen, we’ll share all the public files with sites like Simscave and Graveyard before we go, so that all that lovely content won’t be gone forever.

Sounds good?

In order to keep SimFileShare within the sims community, we’re running an invitation system for new users. All registered users will be able to invite an unlimited number of people – please only invite simmers!

That means that we need some people to sign up to begin with, who can then start inviting their friends. If you would like to be one of those people, you can send me an Ask or fill out our Google Form to request an invite. Bear in mind that there’s only one of me doing these forms, so I might get backlogged – I’ll get to you as quickly as I can!

If you’d like to know more, check it out at SimFileShare.net!