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Stopping it may not be possible but the change of hands killed everything that was nice about tpb. Quality plummeted very fast and the last time I checked extre

Stopping it may not be possible but the change of hands killed everything that was nice about tpb. Quality plummeted very fast and the last time I checked extremely obvious malicious torrents with faked seeder counts were at the top of the games section for days. The whole site looks like it lost its community and also it's heaps of obscure content. I'm still grateful for the sysops of tpb and more importantly, Mininova for providing me with endless hours of entertainment before I had the means to stay in a private tracker.

myhn4444nick 5y ago
Oh man, RIP to Mininova. First torrent site I ever used. I have many fond memories of that site. The biggest being the introduction to all the content that was so far out of reach for me, as a young kid. I could get vintage games that were long out of sale in retail stores (this was before mass GOG and Steam game availability), and conveniently sized movies by aXXO. Another memory was when they switched to legal-only content, creative commons stuff. Logging in one day and I had to double check why there was almost nothing "mainstream" present anymore. Introduced me to the concept of torrenting as a convenient, reliable method of file sharing, rather than just for getting stuff for free (illegally). And a final present memory is seeing fudged peer numbers, which I'm so glad I have a screenshot securing this memory, and securing this time in history of the web. https://i.ibb.co/tb2rV6h/mininova-2009.png https://i.ibb.co/tb2rV6h/mininova-2009.png https://i.postimg.cc/63h9m9VW/mininova-2009.png https://i.postimg.cc/63h9m9VW/mininova-2009.png
- no_time 5y ago
  What a screenshot lol. Imagine trying to present that browser design as an MVP in 2021.