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Anonfiles is shutting down (anonfiles.com)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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After trying endlessly for two years to run a file sharing site with user anonymity we have been tired of handling the extreme volumes of people abusing it and the headaches it has created for us. Maybe it is hard to understand but after tens of million uploads and many petabytes later all work of handling abuse was automated through all available channels to be fast as possible. We have auto banned contents of hundreds of thousands files. Banned file names and also banned specific usage patterns connected to abusive material to the point where we did not care if we accidental delete thousands of false positive in this process. Even after all this the high volume of abuse will not stop. This is not the kind of work we imagine when acquiring it and recently our proxy provider shut us down.

This can not continue.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Honestly, there are thousands of mods on sites like reddit that don’t get a dime. I ran a business before and burning out with the constant attacks by competitors or straight trolls is a real problem. But it’s also a selfmade problem in a way. Running a business takes its toll and if you don’t start to trust people at some point, you get nowhere. The best idea would have been some kind of leveling system which allows regular users to become mods and so on. (A little more automation than reddit has but you get the gist).