> compete with older (& less crappy) services like mediafire?
Did you mean to infer that MediaFire was less crappy than this showcased one? Or crappier than this one? Your follow up sentence would indicate the latter.
I meant less crappy among the usual "file hosting sites". Mediafire for one is a pretty good service with 10GB for free but some times has too many annoying ads
These services (Mediafire, Zippyshare, Uppit) are among the best file hosting sites online, but unfortunately they have their issues too.
The problem being that you have to jump between different hosts depending on how large your files are and which features that you want to use (e.g Mediafire for larger files, Zippyshare from public PCs so you don't have to login, MEGA for sensitive files that you want to send securely, Dropbox when you don't want grandma's PC to get infected when you're sending her the videos from Christmas).
The goal is to create one single host that saves you from having to jump from each host and having to maintain dozens of accounts to bypass limits.
Also tonnes of decent ad supported options with no crap like wait time and million popups like Openload Zippyshare AFH
(oh and site looks & performs great! Best of luck for future)