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Well this is a massive bag of suck.
https://www.demonoid.info/announcements/...nd-deimos/
SO sad to hear of this, have been a member of Demonoid for a very long time and had been waiting ever so patiently for the site to re-emerge. At its peak, the collection of old and obscure titles was breathtaking.
Goodbye Deimos, you will be and have been sorely missed. 
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Apr 16, 2019, 11:40 am
(This post was last modified: Apr 16, 2019, 11:42 am by dueda.)
It is very weird nobody came up with something better than just wiping the data and disconnecting. People in the Demonoid community were just too nice for that, and they don't just vanish. Anyone can die or have a big turn in life, but someone would try a proper closure. I believe Deimos was prepared for every possible contingency but Armageddon. I believe something went wrong and the "second guy" couldn't / hadn't time to do better.
Oh, just in case... I don't need to say how I appreciated the Demonoid creator, the service, the community. It was a little more elegant than the chaotic freedom of TPB but still felt pure enough. A champion has fallen. Like Notre Dame cathedral, the temple burned, but let's not give up with the good heart.
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(Apr 16, 2019, 11:40 am)dueda Wrote: ..let's not give up with the good heart.
Agreed. Right now everyone on the Demonoid forum that Phaze put together is just trying to process. We'd all been patiently waiting for the site to reform and re-emerge. Once this shock passes, I have no idea if the community will rebuild or what. Will see.
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One of the friendliest tracker out there. Deimos was so stubborn and hard going, imagine making tracker when the internet was relatively new and having around 20 years, or more importantly, getting to college time.
Coding back at the 2000s was not easy as it is now. Respect for him, his family and friends.
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Apr 16, 2019, 16:32 pm
(This post was last modified: Apr 16, 2019, 16:58 pm by RodneyYouPlonker.)
Demonoid was buggy towards the end and had a few problems even when I spoke up about those problems AOS who was annoying spoke up on the forum and made me feel a bit embarrassed about what I was talking about, didn't like AOS even though he was made a "helpful user" but apart from him and his whining never really managed to get anywhere on the forum, if I mentioned something was wrong I would just get it thrown back in my face basically and people didn't listen to me especially that Phase1 guy.
Not the greatest community really, had a few nasties on my torrents at points, going on about this and that it was all rubbish really. Spent years on there, the best thing about it was that you could share thousands of files within one torrent, something which you simply cannot do on TPB. That will be missed with me. Reporting bugs to Demonoid was like getting a wet trout slapped across your face.
Shame that he's dead, I didn't know him don't know anything about this person, shame really. Oh well that's just life...
Also not forgetting of course to mention that I had 2 of the biggest music collections on Demonoid and that it took me months and months to make those, such a huge amount of hard work and now there's no way to share those torrents anymore so they have to be abandoned now due to his death. I kind of knew those torrents were doomed at some point last year when it went down but I can confirm now that it is offically over now with those and they will never be made again. Just life really, I'm still here, he is gone now and so is his site. There's no going back now, no way back it's all a one way street can't hit the reverse gear now it's too late...
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Apr 16, 2019, 17:57 pm
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I never knew him, but any loss is sad, and this community as a whole has taken a huge hit in the past few years.
Sorry to the people who knew him, and regardless of where he came from or other issues, he was a part of this pirating community so to me, nothing else is relevant now. So R.I.P Deimos...Thanks for everything!
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May 02, 2019, 21:48 pm
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Thank you debart and phaze1G for the information.
I'm sorry to hear of his passing.
I am sad to reflect on the demise of Demonoid. I enjoyed that site. There were such unique members and torrents there.
There was a member on the site, I believe his username was PeterG23 (or something like that), who shared rare British and Australian mystery audiobooks. I hope he, along with other Demonoid members, post their torrents on The Pirate Bay.
One thing in particular that I liked about Demonoid was the vast selection of audiobooks and the ability to browse specific subsections of that category.
For example:
Audiobooks - Fiction - Westerns
Thank you, Deimos for all that you did for the filesharing community.
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