Mega leaves beta and allows glimpse at the future
The last two years have been a roller coaster ride for the makers of Megaupload and Mega. The popular service was taken down in the beginning of 2012 and revived under the Mega.co.nz domain about a year later.
The new service quickly grew to become one of the most popular file hosting services on today's Internet. It is currently listed on position 847 of all websites out there according to Alexa, having broken the top 1000 ranking less than 3 months ago.
Mega announced yesterday that the site has left its beta status which could fuel growth even further. According to the announcement, improvements have been made to the service as part of that.
Below is a list of new features and improvements that have come along with the removal of the beta tag on Mega.
- Loading times have been reduced thanks to code optimizations and dynamic feature fetching.
- The Mega user interface has been refreshed. It should feel a lot snappier to users, especially those with many files and folders.
- Sessions are now cached locally, so that subsequent logins are faster. When you sign in, only changes that happened after your last log out are loaded from Mega's server while the remaining data is loaded locally.
- If you like social, you can now add a profile photo to your account that will appear in your friend's contacts lists.
- Contact management has been improved. You can now look up the number of files that contacts have shared with you, as well as the last modification date and time.
- The new sidebar navigation lets you switch between your cloud drive, the recycle bin, contacts and your inbox instantly. You can now also use drag and drop to transfer files to select clients using the sidebar.
- A Firefox extension to reduce loading times further, improve download performance and security. To download and install the Firefox app click on Menu on the Mega website and select Apps > Firefox App from the menu. Or, load this url directly: https://mega.co.nz/#firefox
The official Sync client for the desktop is also listed here, but not yet available.
Mega has however revealed screenshots of it and the iOS application on the blog.
It is interesting to note that the structure of the Sync client for Windows looks similar to the -- allegedly -- fake Megasync application we reviewed earlier this year.
The company announced plans to launch encrypted messaging and chat options in early 2014. While that will be limited to Mega users, it will feature interesting options such as attaching files or folders, communication with multiple recipients or secure audio and video call capabilities.
Now Read: Fix Firefox needs your consent to download large files message on Mega
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Doesn’t Windows 8 know that www. or http:// are passe ?
Well it is a bit difficulty to distinguish between name.com domains and files for instance.
I know a service made by google that is similar to Google bookmarks.
http://www.google.com/saved
@Ashwin–Thankful you delighted my comment; who knows how many “gamers” would have disagreed!
@Martin
The comments section under this very article (3 comments) is identical to the comments section found under the following article:
https://www.ghacks.net/2023/08/15/netflix-is-testing-game-streaming-on-tvs-and-computers/
Not sure what the issue is, but have seen this issue under some other articles recently but did not report it back then.
Omg a badge!!!
Some tangible reward lmao.
It sucks that redditors are going to love the fuck out of it too.
With the cloud, there is no such thing as unlimited storage or privacy. Stop relying on these tech scums. Purchase your own hardware and develop your own solutions.
This is a certified reddit cringe moment. Hilarious how the article’s author tries to dress it up like it’s anything more than a png for doing the reddit corporation’s moderation work for free (or for bribes from companies and political groups)
Almost al unlmited services have a real limit.
And this comment is written on the dropbox article from August 25, 2023.
First comment > @ilev said on August 4, 2012 at 7:53 pm
For the God’s sake, fix the comments soon please! :[
Yes. Please. Fix the comments.
With Google Chrome, it’s only been 1,500 for some time now.
Anyone who wants to force me in such a way into buying something that I can get elsewhere for free will certainly never see a single dime from my side. I don’t even know how stupid their marketing department is to impose these limits on users instead of offering a valuable product to the paying faction. But they don’t. Even if you pay, you get something that is also available for free elsewhere.
The algorithm has also become less and less savvy in terms of e.g. English/German translations. It used to be that the bot could sort of sense what you were trying to say and put it into different colloquialisms, which was even fun because it was like, “I know what you’re trying to say here, how about…” Now it’s in parts too stupid to translate the simplest sentences correctly, and the suggestions it makes are at times as moronic as those made by Google Translations.
If this is a deep-learning AI that learns from users’ translations and the phrases they choose most often – which, by the way, is a valuable, moneys worthwhile contribution of every free user to this project: They invest their time and texts, thereby providing the necessary data for the AI to do the thing as nicely as they brag about it in the first place – alas, the more unprofessional users discovered the translator, the worse the language of this deep-learning bot has become, the greater the aggregate of linguistically illiterate users has become, and the worse the language of this deep-learning bot has become, as it now learns the drivel of every Tom, Dick and Harry out there, which is why I now get their Mickey Mouse language as suggestions: the inane language of people who can barely spell the alphabet, it seems.
And as a thank you for our time and effort in helping them and their AI learn, they’ve lowered the limit from what was once 5,000 to now 1,500…? A big “fuck off” from here for that! Not a brass farthing from me for this attitude and behaviour, not in a hundred years.
When will you put an end to the mess in the comments?
Ghacks comments have been broken for too long. What article did you see this comment on? Reply below. If we get to 20 different articles we should all stop using the site in protest.
I posted this on [https://www.ghacks.net/2023/09/28/reddit-enforces-user-activity-tracking-on-site-to-push-advertising-revenue/] so please reply if you see it on a different article.
Comment redirected me to [https://www.ghacks.net/2012/08/04/add-search-the-internet-to-the-windows-start-menu/] which seems to be the ‘real’ article it is attached to
Comment redirected me to [https://www.ghacks.net/2012/08/04/add-search-the-internet-to-the-windows-start-menu/] which seems to be the ‘real’ article it is attached to
Article Title: Reddit enforces user activity tracking on site to push advertising revenue
Article URL: https://www.ghacks.net/2023/09/28/reddit-enforces-user-activity-tracking-on-site-to-push-advertising-revenue/
No surprises here. This is just the beginning really. I cannot see a valid reason as to why anyone would continue to use the platform anymore when there are enough alternatives fill that void.