Jaiim

Also having this issue; I was going to upload a mod today and I can't, because a mod requires an image to be published. I was able to upload the actual mod file, but trying to upload images results in a 500 Internal Server Error. Thought it might be Firefox shenanigans, but when I tried again in Chrome, same thing happened. EDIT: Tried to post the actual error, but the server thought it was malicious code or something? It showed a "you have been blocked!" page. EDIT2: I tried again and image uploading seems to be working now.

I wouldn't care if the nag was a one-time thing or if you put an option in the user preferences to turn off the nag and select "Slow Download" by default. Putting a nag in front of every download is just plain obnoxious and it's obvious you are doing it to annoy users into paying you. Unfortunately for you, most of those users you are desperately trying to annoy into giving you money, aren't going to give you money. I've been using free download sites for years now that use this exact same strategy. No matter how annoying you make this for me, I am not going to give you any money. Trying to milk free users is like trying to squeeze blood from a rock. You want my advice? You gave too much to us free users and now you can't take it away without pissing us off. You're backed into a corner and think the only way to solve the problem is more premium users. Ha, well, good luck with that. Just bite the bullet and piss us off. We can take it. Give us a filesize quota. Oh, Mr. Free User, you've download more than 500MB today? See you tommorrow! Oh, Mr. Free User, you downloaded a 2GB file? See you in 4 days! If I were you, I'd start a Nexus bittorrent tracker; let the mod authors and free users seed the mods for you in exchange for "seed points" we can use to buy site perks; private trackers do this all the time. I'd be more than happy to seed some of my favorite mods. Hell, drop free tier back down to 1MB/s or even lower while you're at it. It doesn't matter for a small file, but if free users are downloading a huge texture pack and have a choice between a slow Nexus download or a torrent, they'll pick the torrent; all you need to do is make sure the meta file is in the torrent and remind users to select the mod manager's download folder as the destination, everything should work just fine. Maybe you should also reduce the allowed filesizes and number of screenshots for non-premium mod authors? That kind of thing really adds up. I resave stuff as .jpg to be more conscientious to the people browsing my mods, but not everybody is so nice.