Rosefile is dead, and its viable alternatives

Sep 2, 2024
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What I mean by "dead", is its viability as filesharing host. It's an absolutely garbage host to begin with, but it has a sliver of worth for providing links with passable longevity. Mostly due to it being so bad that nobody really use them (unless they had no better option), thus allowing it to stay under the radar. Hell, even this guy already had gripes with it, from all the way back.

Quite sometime ago, I noticed that even after solving the Goddamn captcha and pressing the download button, it refuse to download and keep you on eternal loading. Until eventually the download attempt failed on its own. Since I don't use it much to begin with, I just ignored it and use other (and better) hosts.

However, I just recently confirmed its de facto functional demise by the testimony from other users. They confirmed that they indeed had the same problem. Therefore, the problem's not on our part, but from Rosefile to begin with.

Hence, I highly recommend that all users on this site (contributors, reuploaders, downloaders, etc.) to no longer use that shitty host anymore. Nobody uses them unless they're desperate anyway, so they just waste everyone's time.

I made this post just in case nobody noticed this issue, and is still using them for whatever reason. Thanks for the attention.
 
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Up-and-coming viable alternatives that I've seen recently on this site are:
Other than that, it's the usual suspects:
Premium rapidgator links are usually for archival purposes. Katfile generally has great longevity. DDownload and Fikper are somewhat acceptable alternatives. Mexashare is currently the fastest and most favored for free users (albeit it comes with that pesky anti-adblock measures).

Btw, I kinda like the recent dailyuploads.net mentioned earlier. Does anyone had any issues with using it?
 
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Alternatives are nice and all but the strong part of rosefile was that they, being a Chinese company, did not respond to dmca and hosted files were available for better part of a year i downloaded a lot of neatly organized raw manga and VNs made by Lebedev the previous year, he often told me that somebody always reports and takes down his uploads from sites like katfile and fikper, while rosefile don't care, well them and rapidgator, but f*ck rapidgator.
All those hosts you named are kind of hit and miss in terms of that, but not like we had much of a choice in the first place, best strategy for uploaders is still "upload to many sites and hope that files last".

Btw, regarding katfile I stumbled upon the same problem there too, the one you described as
"I noticed that even after solving the Goddamn captcha and pressing the download button, it refuse to download and keep you on eternal loading"
At least older files (5+ months old) have this or maybe I'm just unlucky.
 
are there any filehosts in Russia? since the sanctions thing they've supposedly stopped responding to all western and allies DMCA requests
 

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