melloyellow
Member
i noticed that i have to be logged in for the hot linking to start working.
why did you guys decide to do this? :(
and whats the durations of login time before it logs out automatically?
will this forum send me an e-mail if someone/or an admin replies. ~_~
i'd like to know the answer.
thanks.
od.admin
Key Master
Recently we’ve changed our plans and direct linking is available only for Home, Office or Pro plan.
You can find more information about our plans here:
http://www.opendrive.com/services/plans.php
trump
Member
Well I think that is quite deceitful.
Can I ask why we were not given any notification of your over night change of rules?
The sudden (and secret) way you changed this free service shows a lack of respect and disregard for your users.
Other free file host sites provide hot linking at no cost to their users - if we are not given the same service with Opendrive then I guess we will be changing sites.
@Trump
The Reason other sites can so easily "Give out" their free hot-linking is usually due to their File size restrictions and Their Crushing bandwidth restrictions that make it virtually impossible for users to fully utilize their service.
@PowerPatrick
I've been on many forums before and I see this one as no different. Can you be kind to the Open drive Community and Not Advertise. Tested. Only 2gb of Space. FAIL >.<
And at Half their Price for the First level of Upgrade We get DOUBLE the Space.
Half The Cost Double the Features.
@OD.Admin
Please Listen. Due to the Recent "lockout" of unverified hot-linking even my website was pretty much K.O.ed. I hope there can be a better solution for Legit members. I do understand that people have abused the free hot-linking but that shouldn't ruing it for everyone. Many of us came to Open-Drive because of the Great Features and the Low costs.
It's just me but I personally wouldn't like to see users going to "weaker" services due to issues that weren't their fault.
PowerPatrick
Member
It was only for those who wish hotlinking, and a fast service, that also officially supports cross-platform software. But yet another alternative for cloud storage is Live Mesh, which have 5 GB like OpenDrive, but shamely requires an invitation to be used and doesn't have hotlinking either.
You can expand your Drop box space by sending an invitation link as I did. You get 250 MB extra space for each invitation. So you can actually get up to 5 GB space, as long as you send enough invitations. :)
But GmailFS gives you the possibility to use Gmail as an virtual file system with files and folders. Gmail offers about 7.5 GB space. But of course, these are nasty hacks, and should be avoided.
od.admin
Key Master
Thank you for your posts. Here is our decision for file hotlinking of Basic accounts.
Direct linking (hotlinking) was enabled for exchange of spreading out of OpenDrive.
Here are initial rules:
OpenDrive will enable direct linking of your files if you help us spread out OpenDrive.
Please find or create any webpage, which contains visible link to OpenDrive website.
URL of such a webpage can be entered in My Account after log in.
Hotlinking will be instantly enabled, however, URL will be checked and in case
- we can't find any logo, link or OpenDrive name visible on provided webpage or
- URL leads to our webpage or file hosted on OpenDrive
URL will be removed.
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