Rapidshare mystery solved!

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Ah… now I get it :)

It seems like people are having rapidshare errors because they’re clicking on links before the countdown completes, when skipscreen assumes that you’ll wait and let it do it’s thing. Note: if SkipScreen doesn’t download automatically after the countdown when you let it do its thing, please post a detailed error report with screenshots and error logs (Ctrll/Cmd-Shift-J) to the Getsatisfaction thread.

Unlike with the other sites, we can’t simply skip rapidshare’s countdown. As I understand it, this used to be possible, but now they don’t make the linked file available until after the countdown.

BUT if you leave the countdown running, the file will download automatically when the countdown completes.

So the user flow is identical to the other sites: click the link (ideally opening in a background tab) and don’t worry about it. Then the download starts.

I should add that yes, this is confusing. So… we’re going to be changing the UI soon to make it clear that, while we can’t skip Rapidshare’s wait time, we can automate the whole process so that it happens in the background and you never have to think about it. Does that work?

  1. Yeah, its working.Thanks…

  2. but, then not work!

  3. it is not solved and i need it urgently/PLEASE

  4. Did you read the post? Can you explain what you’re doing, and what happens?

  5. i did not have any problem with rapidshare.it as as smooth as smoothie :) but lots of others dont work starting with let it be. i should wait and see advert pager for 60 second and even after that it is not clicking itself, i should do it.
    uploading com has same problem also. i hope new improvements would come quicly

  6. Yeah, we don’t cover every site yet.

    See the homepage for the list of sites SkipScreen works on: http://skipscreen.com/

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