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#1536950 by sjw (Power User) at 2013-07-23 19:21:45 (4 days ago) - [Quote] - [Report]

I've still got my fingers in my ears, saying "Laaaaa, laaaa, la, laaaa, laaaaaaa"

2005-01-03 11:53:47 (8 years ago)
2013-07-23 19:17:11 (< 1 min ago)

#1536952 by rava6e (Power User) at 2013-07-23 19:27:39 (4 days ago) - [Quote] - [Report]

Like so many others ive also been here more than 8 years. Ive registered on other sites from time to time, but ive always forgotten to use them. But not with TB. This, for me, has been and always will be the single best site. I doubt any other site will be able to keep me around for anything approacing 8 years. Very sad news indeed.
Thanks to everyone who made this site _the_ best.

#1536953 by Cegral This account is disabled

(Power User) at 2013-07-23 19:31:01 (4 days ago) - [Quote] - [Report]

#1536955 by unknown[81460] at 2013-07-23 19:35:26 (4 days ago) - [Quote] - [Report]

Since my forum ban was lifted I have debated whether or not to make another post on Torrentbytes. Due to a promise I made my post will be extremely restricted and for the best interest of all not a brutal attack on those I hold responsible. Which is completely against my nature.

I spent most of my time on this site on staff, I started out an antagonistic user, got banned came back got promoted to moderator, eventually ending up Admin. I have seen this site grow and then rapidly stagnate, then with the past few months tailspin into a steady decline. Allot of regular faces left (or were banned) and with that a huge chunk of the spirit that made this community so special left also.

So now as a community we are in this situation, so throwing stones at absent people will never solve anything, karma will come their way.

I hope there is some future on the horizon for this community, after all the time I invested (and others) in making Torrentybytes that little bit extra the last thing I would ever wish for is its closure.

I would like to thank everyone for their messages not just publicly but via other sites, email, PM, social media. Those messages have meant allot to me the past few days. I also hope I managed to answer your questions openly and honestly.

Thanks to all (bar 2 current, they can go fuck themselves, I have to say that) staff I have worked with (present and past) and really got to know and consider friends. It has been a blast guys and I will always be around for a chat. All the uploaders I also thank for all your time and support, mostly crusader, told you I would get your T-Shirt fella . Also the 2 guys behind the scenes who made the choice not to be public but worked their arses off anonymously to keep this site running.

This is by no means a goodbye post, I just wanted to say a few words publicly, as closure for myself.

I don’t think I am alone in giving a special nod to Tokol, despite us bickering like cats in the past. Since my departure from staff he has been left with the main burden (I know others have helped I am not taking that away from anyone), but Tokol has had it on his shoulders. This current situation was beyond his control, quite simply regardless of limitless funding or miracles nothing would change the bottle neck situation within the site.

I was called a martyr for comments I made on site ultimately leading to me being demoted from VIP and forum banned due to someone’s personal opinion, and I have to agree I did deserve it, just not the manner in which it was done or for the reasons. Kind of ironic that they would be the ones to make me a martyr. “I would have funded the site for as long as needed until a solution was found” was my words, and I would have, until the actions of the past few days seeing Tokol take this crap alone. I wouldn’t fund a site while the overall problem remained, and aint no amount of dynamite going to move them. That problem cannot be fixed, unless a TB3 is created from scratch, an undertaking which would be immense. What sticks in my throat is being demoted from VIP after all the shit I have done for this site, the time invested, the finance I invested and most of all the impact it made on my personal life for years. But boo fukin hoo me this isn’t about me it’s about y’all.

I know what I have done for TBy and chances are for this great community I would do it all again. However at one pivotal point I would have believed a certain ex staff member who took TBy offline due to internal issues. If you are reading this Windpaw please accept my sincere apologies as you were 100% correct and I should never have doubted you or listened to others. That was my only regret.

Mostly I would like to thank every single member of this community for making the late nights and worry worth every second. I only wish I could have done more to stop this happening.

I assume this will be my last chance to speak to all in the community together. I have spent over an hour on this and I am sorry if it has come across in any way bitchy. After all my years and what I have done I do deserve my say, all be it completely restricted.

Thanks everyone

See you all about.

/BoB

#1536956 by Myne (Power User) at 2013-07-23 19:35:28 (4 days ago) - [Quote] - [Report]

Green wrote:

There was a good chance that the tracker could have stayed online, all that we needed was sniper to remove the staff forum and a few people to hand over all the various logins.
All we had to do to seperate the tracker and go legit was to remove browse.php and stop the uploads, easily added back in if it was removed.

A few people came forward to host or even fund the site. How serious they were, we'll never know but thanks for the offers.

Sniper may still be back before August. And even then the site won't be down the very first of next month. We should all be prepared though, as anything can still happen.

#1536957 by unknown[81460] at 2013-07-23 19:36:20 (4 days ago) - [Quote] - [Report]

Cegral wrote:

http://puu.sh/3JUQE.png

isnt torrent damage a pay to leech site ?

#1536958 by Waylander Donor

(Power User) at 2013-07-23 19:38:47 (4 days ago) - [Quote] - [Report]

Cegral wrote:

http://puu.sh/3JUQE.png

Torrentdamage is beyond shit tbh.

#1536960 by junkiesuper (Power User) at 2013-07-23 19:41:25 (4 days ago) - [Quote] - [Report]

Torrentdamage is now a non-ratio site.

#1536964 by Earwig Donor

(VIP) at 2013-07-23 19:46:24 (4 days ago) - [Quote] - [Report]

junkiesuper wrote:

Torrentdamage is now a non-ratio site.

They are that desparate for users they copied what other sites have been doing for quite a while now ?

#1536965 by Oljenkorsi Donor

(Power User) at 2013-07-23 19:49:16 (4 days ago) - [Quote] - [Report]

Been a member for 8½ years damn shame indeed

Well the timing is great because i am going to be homeless end of this month.

Rents are so high in Finland especially at Helsinki, infact they are so ridiculous that it is cheaper to get a hotel room than an apartment. So i figured the only way to get a cheap, new and huge apartment is by going homeless and applying for some social, foundations, trust, city etc. apartments.
They are really easy to get just need to get a doctors note that i am recovering alcoholic, junkie or got mental issues and all those are easy to get.

Meanwhile gonna hang with my friends places and maybe get a girl who can take care of me

#1536967 by Ots3go (Power User) at 2013-07-23 19:49:57 (4 days ago) - [Quote] - [Report]

2005-07-11 23:30:46 (8 years ago)

My TB account is older than my Steam account! and 8 years is a huge % of my life :'-(

#1536968 by Earwig Donor

(VIP) at 2013-07-23 19:50:49 (4 days ago) - [Quote] - [Report]

Nice post BoB.

There is a lot of heart in that. I pretty much felt every word whilst reading it :yes:

#1536969 by quantum26570 (Power User) at 2013-07-23 19:52:42 (4 days ago) - [Quote] - [Report]

Earwig wrote:

junkiesuper wrote:

Torrentdamage is now a non-ratio site.

They are that desparate for users they copied what other sites have been doing for quite a while now ?

TD is not a non-ratio site, they just don't ban users for having a bad ratio.What with all the people who use seedboxes now-a-days the smaller user has a hard time maintaining his/her ratio.

#1536970 by Green (Der Tommy) at 2013-07-23 19:52:50 (4 days ago) - [Quote] - [Report]

BoB without a doubt done more for this site than most over the years! I am not knocking anyone's efforts but he went above and beyond, everytime!

:bow:

BoB wrote:

So now as a community we are in this situation, so throwing stones at absent people will never solve anything, karma will come their way.

we don't even know if Sniper knows, that is the fucked up part. Although he knows about every other problem that has been happening over the years. Imagine coming back off a family holiday into this shit! :lol:

i'll see your bag pipes and raise you

#1536973 by Earwig Donor

(VIP) at 2013-07-23 19:59:27 (4 days ago) - [Quote] - [Report]

I never did have my own locked smiley :weep:

Mind you, who could come up with something with an Earwig ?

#1536975 by Green (Der Tommy) at 2013-07-23 20:04:18 (4 days ago) - [Quote] - [Report]

No smiley! you need to go hassle the userbase!

Higgins made mine :thumbsup:

#1536976 by c0c4in3 (Power User) at 2013-07-23 20:06:27 (4 days ago) - [Quote] - [Report]

Ok guys lets stop messing around here, everyone knows that torrentbits was the best site out there at the start. This site has steadily declined over many many years, I'll be honest BoB, Tokol, DXD and a large amount of the rest of the staff who have come and gone have kept this going since the original one and a large amount of people have kept this site going socially and torrent wise my hat goes off to you guys you are so amazing.

Torrentbytes needs to go at this point I love the site, but it so outdated and really based on very very old technology we can improve and grow as a community under a different name, this is what the site needs. It has become extremely stagnant, this site used to be the only site I went on and we need to go back to that frame. Sites like this now are coming under increased scrutiny from laws and legislation and all these other websites out there just do not do it for me, there is no community no nothing we have the strongest community and we have always had.

Here is what is needed:

BITCOINS as a new method for donation.
Regular Donors and people that invested in the site
Uploaders with appropriate systems so we are not poaching so we can compete.
The key fact the community.
A new name and site design
Coders to do this who are dedicated (Tokol)
More forum activity due to this community, people actually stimulating discussion!
To remove our old ways and broaden our horizon.
Sites like these in the future will be safehaven from all the trash on the internet with feds sping on us and all sorts of garbage, please keep sites like this alive so I don't have to relate to the trash on facebook.

SETUP AN IRC
LEARN HOW TO USE SSL PEOPLE IT IS NOT HARD SOME THINGS THAT ARE OLD ARE NOT BAD!

This is whats needed for a new site IRC ACTIVITY WE NEED TO GO BACK TO THIS! THIS ENSURES PRIVACY AND SOME LAYER OF CONTROL!

THERE ARE TORRENTSITES OUT THERE THAT STILL DO NOT USE SSL! AND USERS THAT STILL DO NOT USE IT! YOU ARE CRAZY!

These are simple plans but honestly the way society is going we all know we have to go deeper underground, torrentbits was that site. We are not anymore. Please lets change.

Love you all

#1536977 by unknown[81460] at 2013-07-23 20:11:50 (4 days ago) - [Quote] - [Report]

Buried deep in the staff forums, perhaps even the special forum called "bobs garden shed" (yes there actually is a forum called that in staff :lol:

) there was earwig locked smilies, they werent very good though if i remember rightly, such a difficult thing to do.

I always loved the green locked smiley :rofl:

#1536978 by ezzy525 Donor

(Not a spy, just a mod.) at 2013-07-23 20:16:46 (4 days ago) - [Quote] - [Report]

To Admins/Mods/Community at Large,

I joined TBy around 5/6 years ago. I was new to torrents, and didn't like the thought of keeping a good ratio (given the fact I was piggybacking onto a neighbours wifi connection

), I decided I would find a way around it...and I did. RatioMaster! But unfortunately for me, the guys here were a trifle smarter than I, and saw through it straight away. BANNED!

Two to three years later, I had my own internet connection. And Signups were open! New IP address and a new (stable!) upload speed meant I was in business. And over the past 3 years, TBy has been the site I first open when I load up Chrome (usually only to check TRPT

).

It is my home on the internet. Yes there are other's, but they are not the same. I used to spend hours arguing with VBG (Who I considered a complete dick

) and then after a while we developed a mutual respect for each other.

Then there was BoB. He was the only member of staff I ever tried to seek out. Because I knew he was the geezer in charge. And what do you know, he was a pretty cool geezer :thumbsup:

he made me a junior staff member and the rest, as they say...is history.

I'm not the only one who has a story about how I came to TBy, this place is full of 'em! Where else would you get the DX (C or D, I never remember who's who! :lol:

) and their eclectic mix of goat porn? Or where else would you get Melrose (the stereotypical irish united fan :lol:

) and there aren't enough 0's and 1's to write about the rest of this weird bunch we call a community.

And now a side note, to whoever can make this choice...

We all know there are options open to the site, multiple options in fact. We all know that there are people here who have put more time, effort, money and guts than anyone could ever dare ask of a person into this site we all call home.

Not exactly the hour long write-time that BoB put in...but then again. I've never put in as much time as BoB has. I hope everyone echoes my sentiments. I don't dislike anyone here. I only want this place to survive.

Regards,
Ezzy.

Last edited by ezzy525 at 2013-07-23 20:16:59

#1536979 by qbert95 (Power User) at 2013-07-23 20:17:26 (4 days ago) - [Quote] - [Report]

Ugh I feel like Im a kid whose parents just dropped the divorce bombshell on them when they had no idea their was problems. Who knew there was this many problems behind the scenes here.

#1536980 by Arnemes (Power User) at 2013-07-23 20:17:42 (4 days ago) - [Quote] - [Report]

Realy nice post BoB

Green wrote:

Higgins made mine :thumbsup:

Is that the reason why he got a particle named after him? :o

#1536981 by unknown[81460] at 2013-07-23 20:22:39 (4 days ago) - [Quote] - [Report]

ezzy525 wrote:

Not exactly the hour long write-time that BoB put in...but then again. I've never put in as much time as BoB has. I hope everyone echoes my sentiments. I don't dislike anyone here. I only want this place to survive.

Mine took five minutes to write, 25 minutes to edit down removing all reference to what the problems are and who, then 30 minutes on the punchbag prior to posting. :lol:

#1536982 by sifichick (Power User) at 2013-07-23 20:23:05 (4 days ago) - [Quote] - [Report]

Green wrote:

Tokol

Join date 2005-01-01 22:54:54 (8 years ago)
Last seen 2013-07-23 14:43:48 (< 1 min ago)

:bow:

Thanks for everything mate, sorry for being a pain! It was all for a good reason. :-/

Thanks for having the balls to face the community until the end.

Quote:

// Apparently the last admin around

Tokol has always had huge balls. It's just part of who he is.

Thank you Tokol for trying to save TB. Thank you for also helping to make this place what it is.

BoB same goes for you. I don't think TB would be what it is without you. Thank you for everything you did for this site.

sifichick
Join date 2005-01-24 19:46:03 (8 years ago)

#1536986 by ezzy525 Donor

(Not a spy, just a mod.) at 2013-07-23 20:31:51 (4 days ago) - [Quote] - [Report]

BoB wrote:

ezzy525 wrote:

Mine took five minutes to write, 25 minutes to edit down removing all reference to what the problems are and who, then 30 minutes on the punchbag prior to posting. :lol:

Having re-read mine. I realised I missed out the key bit I wrote the entire thing for!!!

Part Deux:

ezzy525 wrote:

And now a side note, to whoever can make this choice...

We all know there are options open to the site, multiple options in fact. We all know that there are people here who have put more time, effort, money and guts than anyone could ever dare ask of a person into this site we all call home.

So PLEASE explain to the community...in a public thread...exactly why we are going to take NONE of the options.

THEY DESERVE TO KNOW WHY.

#1536987 by c0c4in3 (Power User) at 2013-07-23 20:35:18 (4 days ago) - [Quote] - [Report]

Ok guys instead of having a forum there is now a IRC channel where you can go to learn the latest stuff about the site etc

IRC SERVER IS AT: http://www.p2p-irc.net/

channel name is #operationtb

irc://irc.p2p-network.net:+6697 for ssl

irc://irc.p2p-network.net:6667 for normal

THIS IS A IRC CHANNEL WITH NO CENSORSHIP I ENCOURAGE GREEN BOB AND TOKOL and others to join
IT IS ALSO PRIVATE TO THIS SITE GET INVOLVED

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