mixtape.moe Shutting Down on March 31st -- archive your links - yet another decent website going to the graveyard

"We launched Mixtape, back in July, 2015, in order to make sure users could easily quickly share any file they wanted (within US laws) with other users, fast and simple. But with the current environment, we're not sure this is currently possible. Mixtape is a completely free (and AD free) service, with no accounts. We have over 3000 file uploads per day. We are unable to moderate the amount of uploads we have and we do not have sufficient moderation and reporting functions for abusive content. "
They don't make any money. It's as simple as that.
Revenue (at the very least) has to be established day one. Even if it's a band-aid solution like running Google ads (until they inevitably revoke you).
 
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Drybones (if he's the one still in charge) is way more...rooted? than Josh. Last time I took a look at him he was in ROTC, it wouldn't surprise me if he's more sensitive to social pressure.
 
Marco Fucko said:
Drybones (if he's the one still in charge) is way more...rooted? than Josh. Last time I took a look at him he was in ROTC, it wouldn't surprise me if he's more sensitive to social pressure.
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Not many people aren't sensitive to "every penny they have going to give shit away for free to people who turn out to be a bunch of child molesters and malware distributors."
 
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Annie said:
Could it have been NZ doing this?
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They were probably pressured in the same way that they attempted to pressure Josh; they thought it wasn't worth the trouble, and they're throwing in the towel.
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I'm late cause I died for a week, but mixtape owner said no on this (from a reddit thread):

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But, seems mum on the topic of archiving it all somewhere.

Also just throwing this out there, while I finally seemed to stop fumbling around with the site's internal search, I can't figure out how to search profile posts properly (I posted a mixtape link on someone's profile once and I can't seem to get that as a result when I test for it), if that's important at all :/ just wanna find things before they go down
 
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Kazami Yuuka said:
They don't make any money. It's as simple as that.
Revenue (at the very least) has to be established day one. Even if it's a band-aid solution like running Google ads (until they inevitably revoke you).
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In the case of Mixtape, that never would have been viable. The only way I can see that you could realistically break even in the long run with such a service that allows hotlinking of files is to require uploaders to pay to upload, at least for any file sizes larger than a pastebin type service usually allows.

Maybe you do something along the lines of letting the uploader pay for a certain amount of tokens that could be redeemed for future file uploads. These would be stored with no link to the payment data. When the uploader wants to upload a file, they take one (or two or more, if you let things scale by file size) of the hashed tokens they were previously provided and use that to allow them to upload. Seems like the only practical way to avoid copyright violations being traced back to financial data.

Of course.. even if people would actually pay for that, it would still be dependant on being able to process payments and find hosting. I guarantee that the Traditional Enemies of the Truth have been attacking both for a long time in the case of Mixtape, and it will certainly have escalated following the Christchurch shooting.

They got both kicked off of Cloudflare and fucked over by their hosting provider year before last. I'm sure their blog post about this is only the surface view of the problems they've faced. Unfortunately, not everyone is a god among men such as Null who will do it just for the love and the lulz. I'm guessing these guys are getting to the point of needing to make a crust. When there's no hope of making a living from this most controversial and expensive of their projects, and they are potentially at risk of being featured in a slanderous article from some media shitbag over it that permanently injures their ability to get hired anywhere with a HR department, this outcome is probably the absolute best that can be expected.
 
Who could have foreseen that a file upload service ran by a bunch of random 4chan "developers" will die quickly? I would have trusted them with my life savings if I could.
 
Thinking about how many websites have fallen recently, Null is either going to be the next Jeff Bezos (by having a monopoly on websites with free-speech and potentially file-hosting now) or be remembered as a matyr for all the shit he put up with.
 
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