Why DivShare is beginning to suck

Once upon a time not so long ago, DivShare used to be my best file sharing service, beating Box.net and all the others in terms of features, usability, interface, or space. DivShare doesn’t limit your file uploads to 10 MB like Box.net does on its free account. It provides you with a big 5GB space. Its features such as the AJAX search and fast multiple file upload tool are wonderful. The service was even nominated for Webware 100.

Not anymore. Why am I saying that? Read on.

Apparently the company is running sort of funds or whatever and are doing all it can to get ad revenues and get the free users to turn premium. I understand every business needs funds and DivShare is no different. But whatever they are doing now, they are becoming a little too much for my liking at least and not what I would like my (trustworthy and solid) file storage site to be like.

For instance, now when you log in to DivShare, their premium account rates and super discount charts greet you instead of your dashboard. When you do a ‘No Thanks’ and continue to your account, everything seems fine and looks the same as before. But wait until you send a file to your friends and this is what they will see when they open the file link.

This is a page full of ads and looks no better than a spam site. Just imagine you are sending that link to a client or a business partner and this is what they see, along with two pop-up ads. Not only that, when you click on the download link, you are taken to a new page , again full of ads, and asked to be waited for 15 seconds before getting redirected to the final download page.

What also made me lose complete faith in DivShare is that they have recently made their services unavailable in 12 Asian countries. Reason: “the online advertising market in China and Southeast Asia is much weaker than in other parts of the world”. This is bad news not only for the DivShare users there but also means that you cannot send files to people in those countries. Thankfully Indian companies still advertise in the site and the service is still active here. But I don’t know for how long.

I don’t mind paying for their premium account but when there are so many services providing the same services free of cost, it’d be a bit silly to find a service provider who asks you to pay up.

By the way, I don’t work for any other file sharing service providing company. This is genuine consumer dissatisfaction.

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