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Good question. I don't have any idea who I would pass it to. If you do, it could be considered! I also miss the good old days. It all felt smaller looking back
by en3r0 3y ago
Good question. I don't have any idea who I would pass it to. If you do, it could be considered!
I also miss the good old days. It all felt smaller looking back, but still huge back then in a lot of ways.
Being found on Google and starting a community off that alone does seem like a pipe dream now, but I think mostly because of how people interact with the web and the platforms they are siloed into by default.
- em-bee 3y agowhat was the monthly running cost? and how much did you earn from ads? (i am guessing it was not that much because it doesn't sound like loosing adsense caused a lot of pain)
- en3r0 3y agoThe VPS was like $60 a year. At the end it was like $100 a year from ads. At one point in the early 2010's there were a few $1,000 months when there was a car model released with torrent in the name!
- jandrese 3y agoLOL I can only imagine how many people discovered the world of underground file sharing because they were interested in a Pontiac.
- cornhole34 3y ago[dead]
- em-bee 3y agodamn, it must have been frustrating to realize that this rise in income was a fluke and wouldn't happen again.
- e12e 3y ago> At one point in the early 2010's there were a few $1,000 months when there was a car model released with torrent in the name! "You wouldn't download a car!"
- lapetitejort 3y agoHave you seen an uptick after the game Elden Ring came out in February 2022? You ride a goat-horse hybrid named Torrent.
- WakoMan12 3y ago[dead]
- Gordonjcp 3y agoI run a small forum for Range Rover enthusiasts, which does occasionally surface on Google but mostly seems to spread by word-of-mouth. That approach is handy if you can reach potential community members via "conventional" mass social media, but want a quiet wee corner to chat in without being marketed at.
- cosmojg 3y agoI'm interested! I wish I knew about your site before it went down. I run a seedbox, and I've been on the hunt for popular-but-legal torrents to support. I'd be more than happy to take a swing at running your site, if only to be a user myself. Feel free to reach out if you're genuinely interested in passing on the torch: torrents@cosmo.red
- bolanyo 3y agothe internet archive have torrents of all their media, although very many of them aren't seeded
- 2358452 3y agoI've tried helping keeping and seeding some historical archives, but it gets tedious quickly downloading one by one (and there's not much activity in them anyway). It would be nice if there was a more organized way of helping archival! (like downloading a large chunk of their database and seeding it automatically)
- deadbunny 3y agoOn one of my high seas sites there is an archive team which uses the API to find "at risk" torrents (<3 seeds). People dedicate X TB and have a script that hits the API, finds some at risk torrents then grabs them to seed and repeats till it fills the space alotted to archiving purposes. Seems like something the IA could implement with some help.
- BlueTemplar 3y agoHow do they distinguish those at risk because just unpopular from those at risk because better versions exist ?
- deadbunny 3y agoThey only archive original sources, not transcodes. With that said I'd guess they'd start archiving non sources if there was space.
- muyuu 3y agoPlease consider that choice. It's bad for everybody if they can de-facto ban the protocol through progressive stigmatisation.
- lofaszvanitt 3y agoJust don't do it. It's like taking a child from you. Someone else starts to bastardize it, use it in way you don't like etc. And you can't do anything about it, since it's not your thing anymore. I've made this mistake once and it's not a good feeling. Better bury it.
- en3r0 3y agoGood thoughts.
- BizarroLand 3y agoHave you considered making it into a software package? You could take any custom code you wrote (like the layout of the pages) and make a guide on how to remake your site from scratch (what software packages you ran, OS, things like that) and post that to github as open source. That would allow you to keep your baby but then let your electric grandchildren float off into the internet to see where they might sprout.
- en3r0 3y agoInteresting thoughts, will have to think about that.
- freedomben 3y agoAs a counter-point, you built this thing in part to give the world something good and uplifting. If you kill the child, you guarantee the outcome of failure. Sure there's a chance that the person you pass it to goes in a direction you don't like, but there's also a chance it goes on to magnify it's mission. It's such a neat project and something I wish I'd discovered before today (sadlol). Hell, maybe I'll take it over if you're willing. I'd keep you access to it and grant veto power over any changes you don't like. What's the current stack? LAMP or something else?
- lofaszvanitt 3y agoAnother thing is if you decide to bury it, do not burn any bridges. A few years later you might want to restart it. So make notes, keep everything archived.
- waselighis 3y agoIf not passing on the torch, would you consider releasing a data set for the ~5500 torrents? I imagine it wouldn't be a huge data set, and it would allow others to build their own websites and continue the work.
- rekabis 3y agoI wouldn’t mind the code itself to crib off of. Although the idea of continuing the site as a whole sounds really attractive if the domain name is included.
- dbancajas 3y agoCan you send me the dump so I can host it somewhere?