Hello Jonnie!
First of all I would like to thank you for putting up such a nice service. Now, I would like to give you an opinion and a request.
MY OPINION
You should be carefull with your decisions. You're in a positive and advantaged position right now. Your service is "kinda new" and other users search on it what they don't find in other products. Hence, you can take this into your advantage by inovating your service instead of following the trend. Don't follow, inovate.
First, I think "the click in the link" for it not be inactive (instead of only downloading) it's a REAL deal. And in the first place I registered in your website and start using your service just for it. Don't change this because right now this is your strongest point!
Second, you really should consider NOT removing any of Sales/Rebills for those users who copied files (from NF url) from other users. Most of the time it's not a question of CRC but a question of knowledge, and most beguiners don't know even what a CRC/MD5 code is, they are just kinds sharing and caring for each others... So if you remove a percentage of their affiliation and give it to the user they copied the file from they will stop using the remote copy option, and start uploading the files themselfs. I guess by now you already know were this is goind to: server usage, bandiwdth usad, overload, less time to post (users have to download to upload), users stopped using your service, bad calculation from the user that copied the file from a user, that copied the file from a user, that copied the file from a user, that copied the file from a user, etc... How would you calculate a nested 15 users that copied from the 15º user? My advise is to forget this idea or you will lose users or ending with extreme amounts of server usage. I think the way you deal with the copy function making a "shortcut" for the original file it's extremelly clever and when I saw this for the frst time I imediatly tought in giving a price for entrepreneurship. Congratulations for that, you save space, user's time and servers...
MY REQUEST
I was using Uploaded until they changed their affiliation stats this month, and started to remove % from users lowering them to 60% of the sale, after years using them as a unique option to my webiste (open platform were other users can share ONLY with Uploaded) I felt this as a blackstab and next day stopped using them. But now I have a bunch of Uploaded links I want to convert to NitroFlare and make NitroFlare my unique option for links in the forum were I have a user's status ("cleaner") with the job to exchange them all. So, do you have in mind when we can import files from Uploaded? I plan to exchange ALL my Uploaded links to NitroFlare whenever I can (as fast as possible if I may).
CONCLUSION
I will only finishing saying that in your position I would take a deep consideration about your actions. You're in a sensible position were the wrong decision can coust you a lot of users (like the wrong decision Uploaded took) or your entire service.
I hope (apart from removing the Affiliate Plans) you KEEP what you promissed users in the first plan. A service of honor simply promise, deliver and cannot change the rules afterwards. If you decide to change them then you always must give something in exchange to compensate the user's lost.
Don't forget your service are us. And without us you don't have service, however we have a lot of option out there. If we choose your service you must be grateful enough and not p*ss on us like Uploaded did.
I really hope to have a long relationship with nitroFlare in the next years.
Sincerely,
Anonymous