petermc The discussion is not about downloads cutting out mid-transfer. Maybe so people understand what is being talked about: Previously you could generate download links with valid 24h timestamps (by e.g. starting downloads and then immediately interrupting them) and then add these to a download manager or similar script so that they would be downloaded one after the other. Basically that was a nice way to queue up downloads before leaving for work, going to sleep, etc. and generally preferable to downloading everything in parallel. Since the new website these authorization tokens only last 1 hour or so, meaning that (at least when download bigger files like master quality encodes), queueing up downloads has basically become impossible because all downloads links after the first will expire before the first file even finishes downloading. It also means that if for some reason the download does get interrupted after the first hour, it cannot even be resumed automatically because the link might already be expired.
@AlexSLR What exactly was the reason for this change? We have a download limit anyways, so this only creates annoyances for people. I at least don't see how changing the expiration time helps SLR in any way.
