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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Great news..
We need Demonoid back in business..
Libble.com along with it’s tracker has been down for a few hours now..
Let’s just hope they will return.. :/
Any news on libble?
Hinteresting hindeed.
This is the single most important that can happen!!! (Except from a mass move of all man, woman, and child to Linux that is ;P )
What a wonderful way to start my day :D
Its hard to tell is its good or bad news.. But I hope demoniod will return no the less
barely noticed it was gone after a few days..
Awesome news, can’t wait to start downloading.
=]
Excellent, I look forward to an announcement.
Demonoid was the best, I certainly hope it comes back soon.
Thankyou Lord! THANK YOU! WHAT a way to start my day! I could almost put up with sumotorrent now!… Well, maybe not…
This HAS to be GOOD news…
He already said “resurrecting demonoid” and told us not to debate the future because we will soon know the “future of demonoid”
pretty clear sign that demonoid is coming back to life….VIVA LA WIENER PHILHARMONIKER!
its a trap!
Goodbye Deimos and thanks for all the fish….hehe
Now bring on the Oid…..!!!
Seeing as how I’m a firm believer of the bittorrent Hydra theory, I find it rather disappointing, and perhaps disillusioning, that there have really been no trackers to step up and take on the popularity and high quality of what demonoid once was. Ever since demonoid went down, the only tracker with a decent selection that we could really trust was The Pirate Bay. Now while the TPB crew is the greatest thing to happen to the bittorrent world, it should not be the only worthwhile source. A hydra is not supposed to be one head with a bunch of little tiny heads that don’t really do much but control bladder functions.
[quote comment="340530"]Seeing as how I’m a firm believer of the bittorrent Hydra theory, I find it rather disappointing, and perhaps disillusioning, that there have really been no trackers to step up and take on the popularity and high quality of what demonoid once was.[/quote]Exactly my thoughts. I think it has to do with age. The younger generations (Deimos is old-school) are generally more fear-driven in everything they are and do. Us old ones have more guts. One needs huge balls to start up a tracker and keep it running despite some blows and cowardly attempts to kill it off.
Deimos, my good friend, thanks and I wish you the best with your health and real life.
Demonoid was no where near the best, it made people think it was good by becoming invite only, it didn’t have everything you wanted, it had some exclusive stuff, but other trackers and sites have exclusive content. It was just popular. Jack of all trades, master of none.
I just hope they find a truly safe place to have the site hosted. That accomplished anything is possible.
Deimos, you’re a legend, we respect you very much.
[quote]Demonoid was no where near the best, it made people think it was good by becoming invite only, it didn’t have everything you wanted, it had some exclusive stuff, but other trackers and sites have exclusive content. It was just popular. Jack of all trades, master of none.[/quote]
It was the best public site, and I would say the best overall site.
[quote comment="340548"]Deimos, you’re a legend, we respect you very much.
[quote]Demonoid was no where near the best, it made people think it was good by becoming invite only, it didn’t have everything you wanted, it had some exclusive stuff, but other trackers and sites have exclusive content. It was just popular. Jack of all trades, master of none.[/quote]
It was the best public site, and I would say the best overall site.[/quote]
I thought Demonoid was a private site…>.>
precisely, it had all the downsides of a public site, but you had to be invited.
[quote comment="340555"][quote comment="340548"]Deimos, you’re a legend, we respect you very much.
[quote]Demonoid was no where near the best, it made people think it was good by becoming invite only, it didn’t have everything you wanted, it had some exclusive stuff, but other trackers and sites have exclusive content. It was just popular. Jack of all trades, master of none.[/quote]
It was the best public site, and I would say the best overall site.[/quote]
I thought Demonoid was a private site…>.>[/quote]
Not much private in Demonoid. If I remember correctly, everybody could use the tracker. Think Demonoid should have a member limit, using passkey and enforcing ratio rules. Demonoid was leecher’s paradise.
Demonoid was the greatest bittorrent site there has ever been, and since it’s been gone nothing has come anywhere near to it’s quality — Looking forward to be back there sharing
Thanks for everything Deimos!
[quote comment="340556"]precisely, it had all the downsides of a public site, but you had to be invited.[/quote]
Well, it was popular because of it’s elite connotation as a private tracker. But that just drew more content. I was skeptical of the merits of private trackers until I used Demonoid. It seemed as if they had all the content you couldn’t find anywhere else. So yes, being invite-only didn’t make it great, the fact that it truly did have a vast and high quality selection of torrents did.
Hmm…I guess I’m just a bit paranoid but I can’t seem to just trust that the site would come back with a new Admin. Must just be me.
it wasnt the greatest trust me there are far better sites out there demonoid was good but it had slow speeds and many fake torrents pretty much a private mininova but all the same sucks to see a site go down i do not know if i do trust it comming back it seems fishy to me
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