Demonoid To Be Resurrected Under New Admin
Written by enigmax on April 11, 2008Deimos, the administrator of Demonoid has announced that he is stepping down for good due to his preoccupation with ‘real-life’ issues. For those tearing their hair out with dismay, you can stop now. The site will be resurrected under a trusted new admin and Deimos is asking the community to give him support.
Ever since Demonoid had to leave Canada, there has been speculation about the future of the site. Although the tracker has been returning periodically from various places - the latest being Ukraine - no solid news has been coming out about a proper comeback. Deimos, the Demonoid admin, has been very quiet - until now, that is.
In a message on the SubDemon forums, Deimos breaks his silence:
Hello Everyone,
It is with great sadness (and not a little relief) that I announce that I will be stepping down as admin of Demonoid, with effect from today.
Demonoid is currently suffering from a number of things, prime amongst these being my distraction with real-world issues, and so I have handed the reins over to a new administrator - a close friend of mine, which I trust completely and has the knowledge and time to take care of the site.
He will, in due course, be making his own announcements about the future of Demonoid. Of course, speculation over the future of the site is fun, but it is ultimately fruitless - you will all, in the near future, become aware of what the future holds. I trust that you will all give your support to the new admin as he finds his feet while he resurrects Demonoid.
Thanks again for your support in making Demonoid what it was and is.
Goodbye and good wishes - it has been a blast!- Deimos
It’s great news for the BitTorrent community that the future of Demonoid is in trusted hands and for some, quite a surprise after such a long wait. But it just might be worth it if one of the world’s most popular trackers does indeed come back with a bang.
Update: The Demonoid RSS feeds started to work again.
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Demonoid was semi-private. So you didn’t have ABSOLUTE noobs usually. Sure, there were leechers, but it wasn’t nearly as bad as TPB, for example.
And the selection of content was just unbeatable.
Rising from the hashes!
[quote comment="340490"]Its hard to tell is its good or bad news.. But I hope demoniod will return no the less[/quote]
I liked Demonoid because of all the old rare stuff it had. Now all that’s out there is the latest issue of Golden Girls, which totally sucks ass.
damn i almost cried when i read this!
The only people who think it was the best, are those who don’t have access to topsites. Demonoid was popular, but was by no means very private or exclusive!
I’m doing my happy dance right now!
I can’t wait for the return of demonoid. I have barely seen any marvel or even dc comics since they left.
It may have been a “leecher’s paradise”, but you can’t deny that they had the best torrents around. Any obscure little thing you wanted you could get, with no BS. Besides, it wasn’t that hard to get an invite or get an account on one of their registration days.
What made Demonoid great was its unsurpassed search function. It’s ability to categorize torrents with the use of precise drop-down menus has yet to be equaled elsewhere. Also the comment/feedback function was topnotch. Not to mention the amount of high quality torrents. Hurry back soon Demonoid.
This is gonna be good.. I can’t wait.. If anybody needs help @ demonoid give me a shout..
hopefully they still have all the user info in the Database, Cuz my ratio was fucking tight!
this is awesome news. I can’t wait to start downloading from them again.
[quote comment="340663"]hopefully they still have all the user info in the Database, Cuz my ratio was fucking tight![/quote]
Same here buddy
Demonoid was (and hopefully will be again) the greatest. It had a huge selection that was always decently seeded. Ever since Demonoid went down, I’ve become a member of several elite torrent sites, and none of them, I repeat, none, could match Demonoid. In order to come even close, I have to join 8 or 9 specialized sites. On for chess stuff, one for comics, one for games, one for rare movies, one for graphics stuff, one for music and on and on. Managing my ratio among all these sites at once is impossible, especially since the atmosphere is so competitive and people are buying seed boxes to help their ratio out. Yeah, ok, I get great speeds, but what does that matter. If I use the great speeds, I get banned.
Furthermore, some of these sites don’t have great speeds. The chess site I’m on (the only one out there) has been effectively out of service for months. All the games sites are way, way slower than old Demonoid was. And tons of sites have these clicky politics stuff happening (waffles).
Demonoid got the information out there. Who cares if people sometimes were leeching, it didn’t hurt the swarm. The goal is to get the data out there. I didn’t leech at Demonoid, and I find it much harder to maintain a ratio at private sites (especially when I’m split between 9 different sites). This makes it harder for me to download, not easier. What is the point of having well seeded files if you can’t download any of them.
Demonoid managed to make the perfect economy. ‘Money’ or upload was flowing fast and hard. Anyone who wanted to seed could get lots of upload, which could then be used to download. On top of that, files were usually well seeded (even rare ones) and the community was good about reseeding dead torrent.
In most private sites the economy is stifled. Many times, they stifle it on purpose so that the only way people can get started is my donating. Any basic economics student could tell you that you need the leeches to counter balance the super seeders. If everyone has to keep a 1.0 ratio exactly then everyone above 1.0 mean someone below 1.0. This doesn’t work.
All you people who resent leechers because they aren’t ‘giving back to the community’ are just like people who don’t like pirates because they aren’t ‘earning what they’re getting’. You are missing the point of file sharing. The point is to spread information. Every torrent site has a responsibility to support as many leechers as it can. Firstly, this’ll help get the information out there, secondly it’ll help the bit torrent economy. Of course you can take it too far and have a damaged economy where nothing gets seeded well (TPB).
Demonoid had this down perfectly, and that is why demonoid is the best. Anyone who says otherwise is selling something.
Everybody who posted a torrent to Demonoid with the “private” flag set (as the site’s guidelines recommended) got exactly what they deserved when the site went down: a dead torrent.
Gettin’ edjumacated the hard way is a royal bitch, isn’t it?
Learn not to be studid.
DHT-enabled is the shizzits, and what the MPAA fears above anything — because such torrents are impossible to kill.
> On top of that, files were usually well seeded (even rare ones)
> and the community was good about reseeding dead torrent.
Blarg. Total bilge.
I know, because I posted there.
Two-step guide to making fabulous torrents that last forever:
1. Create a DHT-enabled torrent with smaller than default piece size for at least five thousand pieces, and with piratebay, torrentbox and one other non-PB tracker (sumo is a good choice). The piratebay tracker must be first on the list of trackers.
2. Post torrent file to piratebay, and if it successfully uploads, then post it to mininova and torrentbox.
That’s it — the meta-indexes will take care of all the rest. Super-seed it to completion, and then walk away. It’ll croak only if you’re completely incompetent in terms of naming, description, or failing to check if competing (and better) torrents of the material already exist.
I don’t know. I’m suspicious about this.
The reality and fact that all in the recording industry must accept,is that without a computer and file sharring;it would be dead. Live shows will now be afforded by all true music fans MEGAMETALMEDIA forever. RONJAH420
plz come back demonoid has the best torrent finder ever made man… and the speed is awesome.. god i am so sick of mininova and pirate bay… long live demonoid.. we support ya deimos
Demonoid was more of a ‘public private site’.
The site isn’t very private when they have open registrations once a month.
i smell set up.
Great News!
omg yes! come back demonoid.
ty deimos for all ur hardworks these years. good luck in ur future endeavors.
[quote comment="340703"]Demonoid was more of a ‘public private site’.
The site isn’t very private when they have open registrations once a month.[/quote]
I recall their registration being open every Friday.
As for someone else who said the “speeds were slow” — maybe yours were, but mine were faster than most everywhere else. I keep Azureus set at 284kB/s down and it would almost always reach be at or near that speed on a well-seeded torrent.
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