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I read this about a week ago and it is very well done. I've not logged into SA (I only used the forums) in a couple of years at least, glad to see they're stil
by mrbill 10y ago
I read this about a week ago and it is very well done. I've not logged into SA (I only used the forums) in a couple of years at least, glad to see they're still existing.
I still use a torrent site that was a SA spinoff.
- subway 10y agoSpin-off of a spin-off of a spin-off... Edit:Wow, downvotes for making an oblique reference to the fact the SA offshoot torrent sites have disappeared and reappeared under new names a half dozen times in the last decade.
- shrimp_emoji 10y agoEdit2: Wow, more downvotes for... fades into the beigy haze
- partiallypro 10y agoYeah, I believe Demonoid had its beginnings rooted in SA (or at least some connection,) which was definitely the most popular. Dreamhost also had beginnings on SA, they used to give steep discounts to SA members.
- djsumdog 10y agoShhh. What torrent site? The one that doesn't exist? I think that's what you mean.
- walrus 10y agoI find it annoying when people do this, so I'll save others the frustration. "The one that doesn't exist" is probably referring to LUElinks (that's their little in-joke). It's a pay-to-join + invite-only forum/link sharing site. Its userbase significantly declined when MegaUpload shut down, as many of the links were broken.
- eltoozero 10y agoYou sure? I heard that went down with what.cd? So I hear.
- mrbill 10y agoWow, downvoted and I didn't even give specifics of which offshoot site it was.
- swang 10y agoi have no idea why but i remember you from some old efnet channels and SA as well... can't remember what you did though.
- mrbill 10y agoI was an EFnet server admin at Texas.Net up until '98 or so when the smurf attacks became too much and we pulled the plug on that server. Not too long after that a few friends and I started a tiny network of our own that still runs to this day. I can credit SA and MetaFilter (what a combo, eh?) for keeping me sane after I got laid off in '02. Nowdays Reddit has pretty much replaced SA for me, and I don't participate on MeFi as much as I used to... but the folks there kept me from killing myself after my wife died suddenly in '09.