Ricky I don't see anyone screaming about this issue. We only have reported it's causing us issues. Some can't upload or download with their favorite tool, because they rely on their developers to fix it. I found a way to fix it in my own tool, so I only came here to calmly report this issue. I can change my scripts to adapt whatever change you make on your site. Some are giving me headaches, some don't. Truth is, Fileserve has been one of the worse site to develop script for. Only issue I have currently is that I believe this change has decreased my earnings, because people with premium accounts can't download with Jdownloader.
Take a look at your competition, Filesonic. They introduced a new API (
http://api.filesonic.com/user), that all developers can make use of, bypassing all need to even work with HTML and emulating how browsers work. If you made something similar for Fileserve it would help immensely for both uploaders and downloaders alike.
Popular public uploading tools like rapidleech and sBorg would mak use of it, as would downloading tools like JDownloader.
Check out this thread, that has even been stickied -
http://board.jdownloader.org/showthread.php?t=22069&page=43 People are having issues with it since not a few days ago. Something must've changed. And like any other change some people may experience bugs/issues with it.
All I wanted to say is just take a look at it, I'm sure there can be something done regarding this issue. Fact is, most people who have issue with this are people that use some kind of tool. If you implemented your own API, all these problems would go away. Also API are mostly prone to changes you make to site itself, parsing HTML pages is pain in the ass for developers, when all little things that you may change on your website may break the script.