Zippyshare is shutting down

[Terje_P]

I don't think many of our uploads are on the site, but if so please take a backup now

https://www.zippyshare.com/

[myloch]

Not particularly traumatized by that. I used it for temporary or not so important uploads only.

[Scaryfun]

Yeah, just checked database and there's none. People would up temp uploads on zippyshare and then they would be reupped on a host that kept files longer.

[annoyment]

Apart from whatever other hosters reaching top usage positions (like anonfiles, and gofile and pixeldrain and other semi-privacy-violating ones worryingly teetering around, along with expected heavy-hitters like MEGA and Mediafire and some well-known cloud-based solutions) due to getting recommended on Reddit and/or "hacker" 4chan every once in a while (alas, meaning having to prep for old-timers like 4shared going the dodo ); methinks decentralization could've also played a role - literally hundreds of open-source coded self-hosted instances of whatever flavours to choose from (semi-temporary hostings, privacy strengthening, advanced functions; anything goes), like these examples for a start