DarkSide shuts down on 1st of May

[Sylar666]

Another one bites the dust...
One of Hungary's best and most professional trackers ends operation on 1st of May. The causes are various, more details are available on the frrontpage.
Simply speaking: they had enough and the Staff are appalled by the recent influx of lame releasers and the worsening attitude of the users.
Let me be a little bit personal for a second.
This is a very sad moment for me - DS has been one of my favorite trackers. It was my 2nd tracker to get in...The content, the friendly atmosphere, good design. Thanx for the hard work and enthusiasm You've put in this tracker.I 'll miss DS, and wish all good for the Staff.

[ronscores]

Wasn't this the one site which did index all aXXo torrents?? :(

[Sylar666]

Nope...that was a Hungarian site. You know guys I always tried to inform FST-ers about Hungarian developments (torrent-related) but this stuff kinda left me speechless. Very sad day, indeed...

[bilkenter]

Not member there yet news regarding hungarian closures kinda makes me sad also. Unfortunate really. All we can do is to respect their decisions. Thanks for the all hard work pals. :cry:

[RedRansom]

Wasn't this the one site which did index all aXXo torrents?? :(
it's a forum called darksiderg...And realley sad news from darkside especailly for who is a hungarian member...

[Sylar666]

That one was the most professional, broad - minded tracker. They enjoyed what the're doing and the goal was not to cash in bigtime...but rather the sheer enjoyment of sharing and community: called bittorrent.

[BVBV]

WILL Back again ?

[apextwin146]

One of the best sites in terms of usability ... It had enuff free torrents to build up ur ratio even with a 56kbps connection .. Great Design and good releases ..
This is really a very sad development

[Andrew26]

damage for it :(

[darkboy]

i really liked DS it will be very bad for me :(

[eldiesel]

bad news.....

[brightsid]

Really bad news

[manhunt007]

bad news and good luck to the staff

[Albo Da Kid]

Another one bites the dust.....from my bookmark collection

[cinephilia]

Wasn't this the one site which did index all aXXo torrents?? :(
it's a forum called darksiderg...And realley sad news from darkside especailly for who is a hungarian member...
and is there a tracker indexing aXXo releases ?
sometimes french subs are only available for aXXo releases and i'm not always motivated to resync them so it could really help.

ps: sorry for the off-topic

[hagckz0r]

damn! another good one closing its doors :(

[technodrome]

Bad news :(

[sugam]

Sorry to know that! They did really great work. I'll check it to see myself...

[Ahmed047]

I am not a member ,but i heard a lot about DS ,very sad news ,hungary lost a great tracker .

[The_Martinator]

I never was a member, allthough I was offered an invite on a few occasions. I guess I should have been a member and now it's too late. I always thought there was only hungarian stuff there.

Sad news indeed.

[Swift]

R.I.P. as you say another one bites the dust !

[Disme]

Sad news ... wasn't a member there but these things are never good!

[MiNiMAL]

i really liked DS it will be very bad for me :(


for me 2 :cry:

[prasannab13]

tried to be its member,feeling very sad to hear.I know how it will be when u lose a tracker where you spend most of time.

[Shinzen]

Pretty Bad News Was great Site N one of user freindly, Even With Low Speed Connection V maintain a Good Ratio der with tons of freeleech
will Miss it

[Captainbob17]

Thanks everyone, it's very good to read these posts.
This means that our work wasn't beyond reason.

I'm sorry for my poor english :)

DS's Admin

[Sylar666]

Yes, Dear Captain, I took the courage and informed my fella pirates about the decision of the Staff. Although I did not get into details - that is not my jurisdiction.
Thanx for the amazing tracker and I'll miss the most friendly community!

[Simplistics]

DS was really good ;/ too bad for them

[Nitti]

It's a shame and I hope they reconsider, because DS is a very nice site, and its a shame to see it die

[signalearth]

thanks to DS for their time and efforts. keep on keepin' it real... ;)

[Sylar666]

I 've been asked to translate the announcement from DS - homepage.
Here it is.
Official, from DS frontpage:

Ha még nem találtál más torrentoldalt, vagy szeretnél bejutni máshova is, itt a lehetőség!
Az alábbi linkre kattintva (......) beregisztrálhatsz a BH-re: BH - regisztráció.
Azonban ez a lehetőség is véges, csak 10.000 felhasználó kerülhet be így. Ha érdekel a dolog ne habozz, regisztrálj!
Figyelem! Ha az itteni mailcímed már használatban van a bitHUmen-en, nem fog engedni regisztrálni!

Ennyi szabad hely van még:....

Az alábbi linkkel pedig regisztrálhatzs a HDPre-re!



Translation:

In case You haven't found an alternative yet, here's Your chance. With clicking on the link here (on the homepage)....You can signup for BH. This option is limited: only 10,000 members have a chance to get in. If this option has raised Your interest, don't hesitate, join!
Attention! If Your email is already in use on BH, You can't signup!
There are....places available.

With this other link below, You can signup for HDPre (Good Hungarian HD - tracker)

[hagckz0r]

Much appreciated Sylar.. thnks for news

[invisible]

thanks sylar for this good info

[Der0]

Very sad indeed.It is a great tracker.

[MiNiMAL]

Thanks for info Sylar !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[VinX]

OMG .. another one .. i think that anti-piracy people are getting better :(

http://img10.imageshack.us/img10/7821/semttuloass.jpg

[MATEE100]

I hope bH won't shut down like DS does :S

[Sylar666]

@vinx, anti -piracy lobbygroups had nothing to do whatsoever with this particular case - DS closing down. They (DS- Staff) get sick and tired of the mentality and moral of new breed of so called "torrenters", appalled by the immense number of H'n'R cases. They though that operating a tracker like this (with no donation, no P2L) is kinda uphill battle. They had enough - they called it a day. A non - friendly environment with the freezing Anti-Pirate climate was an extra motivator. Sadly, because that one (DS) was a real good tracker, count on me.

[Buster]

For the better understandig here's an offical statement from another DarkSide administrator, he mentioned Sylar as well! :D


Let me quote somebody, its a topic starter post from a well-known P2P forum/portal:

Sylar666 írta:
Another one bites the dust...
One of Hungary's best and most professional trackers ends operation on 1st of May. The

causes are various, more details are available on the frrontpage.
Simply speaking: they had enough and the Staff are appalled by the recent influx of lame

releasers and the worsening attitude of the users.
Let me be a little bit personal for a second.
This is a very sad moment for me - DS has been one of my favorite trackers. It was my

2nd tracker to get in...The content, the friendly atmosphere, good design. Thanx for the

hard work and enthusiasm You've put in this tracker.I 'll miss DS, and wish all good for

the Staff.


Here are the reasons in nutshell, but let me explain a little bit. As we named our necrolog, first and foremost the hungarian torrentsociety's current state and attitude leads our to shut down the site. I don't know if you get involved or not, the fact is in the past years this whole thing gets cheaper. Countless new tracker opened, a lot of new release team started doing his own thing and so on - but the quality is just getting lower and lower. I promise you will understand why titled the domestic bittorrent state one of our owner (the author of the necrolog) as ridiculous, sidgusting and miserable.

Most of these new trackers are built for gaining money from the users, directly or undirectly. Registration only (and buying upload) with SMS code, every page is full with banners, fake lotterys (for various, but expensive "prizes"), donated moneys used for site owner's wellfare instead of running costs, selling user's email adress to spammers and the list goes on. Of course, the staff don't give a damn about "vocational" things: like filtering multi-accounts, hit&runners, Peasants, trash torrents and so on. Only what matters is to collect as many user as they can, which equals more money (via the methods what I mentioned above). I nearly forget say about their technical side, but IMHO you can guess it ... awful. Build a tracker with zero own development, just put together stolen icons/styesheets/headers/etc and rename it, set some wack server behind it and lets rock - this is a word 8-9 times outta 10. Oh, and they best: with a little luck you can buy fully custom-built (!), complete frontend - without a permission of the original developers. Dammit.

The another feature is the inexpertly, newcoming "releasers". At the first (few) time its ridiculous seeing far abnormal tech data in their NFO files, but this smile easily can turn to crying. Making a ton of dupe without a pin of knowledge (of course breaking almost every standards and unwritten rules) is daily right now. Huge and totally pointless packs, stolen sources and renamed releases (sometimes without even replacing the original NFO with a new!), thats also part of the game in here. The best evidence for the domestic relations is a FAREWELL wave last year, full with already proven and excellent releasers. It is not worth talking about more, all I want to note is a little "incentive" from others can turn tables in this area too (but between you and me just call it his name, simply treason).

So here is whats going on right now, but listen close, here comes the essence. All of these things can't be exist without the users. If they don't show interest, if they don't ensure demand for this stuffs they couldn't be here. But they are, and this is exactly what reflect in every time when a leader a great tracker/rls group says "Its enough, we bring quality for a long time, and seems like it doesn't make sense". Its all about a demand/supply interaction, and believe me, it is really capsized. I don't want to generalize the situation what we (the hungarian bittorrent community) are in, we have users who deserve respect and appreciate, who are feels the real meaning the p2p. Althoug is just two words - sharing and free -, seems the major part don't understand it. The key is the "major", if they was a thin layer nobody don't give a damn about it. But at the and of the day, every people who sacrifice his time, put considerable amount of money and energy to create something quality will be dissapointed because the lackness of esteem. Its not about empty phrases and all that: if the crowd settle for the low-end you feel its not worth to do more than that. And you choose to quit, because you know that you don't work under your best and wouldn't like turn your resources to dead projects. Especially if you don't have as much time as before. Believe me, if a siteowner can leave his masterpiece alone because he is sick and tired, the decision is so real, deliberate ... and eventual.

Don't get me wrong, as I said we (both the DarkSide and the hungarian bittorrent public) have peoples who deserves every advantage of p2p. Hey, we made our announce just since ~43 hours and the topic (http://darkside.dyn-o-saur.com:1024/forum/viewtopic.php?id=288&page=0) related to a news still extremly active, we still being bombed by PM's and so on. Noot just from the "simple" users: as soon as our releasers (who worked exclusively just to here) heard the news they announced their FAREWELLs too, and some of our Uploaders already retired from the bittorrent becasue of the closing down. Plus bags of acknowledgement, countless (good) wishes, a lot of touching personal stories and R.I.P. - the respect and appreciate that almost everybody shows towards the DarkSide is the evidence of my statement.

And you (dear foreign DS users) was also a part of it. I still surprised how much non-hungarian we have, especially because we never had a language switching option. Let me thank you for being here and using the site properly, hope you enjoyed the time you spent in here! A little personal story from me: back in the day (perhaps somewhere in 2007) I found an invite tree where the oldest of the five member is from Canada, and the just registered one is from Egypt: the rest three belonged different countries, along this "line". And believe me, we had a a couple of lines like that in the DarkSide's circulation. So you can be anywhere in the world, from America (I mean the continent), to Asia, or even Europe to Africa, the most important is being here. And this goes to the aussies too. http://darkside.dyn-o-saur.com:1024/pic/smilies/smile1.gif

Greetz,
Shade the PCGamer
http://darkside.dyn-o-saur.com:1024/pic/smilies/thumbup.gif

(via DS Forum/International forums/About close-down)
http://darkside.dyn-o-saur.com:1024/pic/smilies/iloveds.gif

[cinephilia]

Attention! If Your email is already in use on BH, You can't signup!
nice reminder in case people would make dupe accounts :yup:

[phantom]

very sad news :( RIP DS...

[BiGBaDBoY]

They had really good porn :( anybody know what are the plans of darkside porn uploaders?

[Zaxx]

Pron? That's one thing you should never have trouble finding with P2P...:P

[MATEE100]

They're still uploading their Stuffs to bH and BeLoad :)

[shipwreck]

Pron? That's one thing you should never have trouble finding with P2P...:P

Haha my thoughts exactly. I mean, seriously. It's probably more difficult to avoid porn these days...

[MATEE100]

Porn is the most important thing :pinch: :lol:

[shipwreck]

Porn is useful, in every way. For the user, because it can cure chronic diseases like blue balls. And for the siteop, because it guarantees increased traffic. Your tracker is a ghost town, hardly anyone leeches anything? Add porn.

[MATEE100]

That's why Demonoid has more than 3.000.000 Users :lol:

[Villalltheway]

That's why Demonoid has more than 3.000.000 Users :lol:

If it had porn it would have 6,000,000 users :lol:

[OTO]

R.I.P

I liked DS design.
It was just fantastic.

[MATEE100]

And it's been shutted down after 4 years :(

[BiGBaDBoY]

any updates about DS , are they coming back with a new site or did staff merge with another site or the uploaders became staff of other sites ?

[MiNiMAL]

Ds - r.i.p forever ! :(