Why is it that more and more I find that posters are using single link downloads only? These require
premium membership to download because of file size.

Please have a heart and upload in file sizes that are small enough to be downloaded by non-premium
users. You can also provide single link files for premium members if you wish.

I have premium membership in one of the more popular sites, but I can't pay for them all.

I agree with uncaff about this, several other boards I visit have the policy of removing people who put up files that can only be downloaded by premium users. Can someone from XW give some reasons why this is allowed here please ???????

Remove users who upload premium links only? What? Most of the popular file hosts support the large file sizes commonly used. If you can't buy premium for those hosts, use a different free host. You can't expect people to be punished just because you're unhappy with not being able to download a specific link because a file host has specific limitations.