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IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT!
TorrentBytes is not dying... but here is a BACKUP FORUM - http://tb.badne.ws/index.php

 

#1536351 by Brainless (Power User) at 2013-07-21 13:18:11 (6 days ago) - [Quote] - [Report]Top

I agree with Green. Host the forums elsewhere and work out a fix.

#1536352 by RichIXDonor (Power User) at 2013-07-21 13:21:07 (6 days ago) - [Quote] - [Report]Top

Sad day, being a member for almost 8 years now, I love the site I dont know where ill go but would like to thank the community and uploaders for there time in making this such a great site.

Will take a look at torrentshack..

#1536354 by Amanda2kDonor (Power User) at 2013-07-21 13:23:05 (6 days ago) - [Quote] - [Report]Top

invite only :/

#1536355 by GomoDonor (User) at 2013-07-21 13:26:47 (6 days ago) - [Quote] - [Report]Top

Better not be the end =/ registered back in 2003...

#1536357 by WaswatDonor (Power User) at 2013-07-21 13:31:23 (6 days ago) - [Quote] - [Report]Top

It's been a good long run. An amazing 8 years!

Last edited by Waswat at 2013-07-21 13:32:26

#1536359 by cerebri (Power User) at 2013-07-21 13:43:23 (6 days ago) - [Quote] - [Report]Top

How do we solve this? Been an member since 8 years back.

#1536362 by mindfly (User) at 2013-07-21 13:56:04 (6 days ago) - [Quote] - [Report]Top

Keep the community together!

#1536363 by Green (Der Tommy) at 2013-07-21 13:56:24 (6 days ago) - [Quote] - [Report]Top

cerebri wrote:

How do we solve this? Been an member since 8 years back.

We remember that this a community, its not about the staff, its about the forums and friendships formed!

Give the site to me and BoB, we pull the tracker offline and move the forum to a cheaper host until something can be sorted.

Demote yourselves to VIP's as you have given up anyway!

Is anyone from staff going to answer, there is no loyalty anymore so just give your personal opinion, the site is dead if left in your hands (in your own news post). Are the current staff (at all levels) prepared to step aside for the good of the place! It's not YOUR site, the community made this place, surely you want it to live on?

I don't want the hassle of running this place but I am certainly not prepared to see it die completely!

#1536365 by bonus (Power User) at 2013-07-21 14:00:51 (6 days ago) - [Quote] - [Report]Top

This is a sad day .

#1536366 by CrewyDonor (User) at 2013-07-21 14:01:12 (6 days ago) - [Quote] - [Report]Top

Green wrote:

cerebri wrote:

How do we solve this? Been an member since 8 years back.

We remember that this a community, its not about the staff, its about the forums and friendships formed!

Give the site to me and BoB, we pull the tracker offline and move the forum to a cheaper host until something can be sorted.

Demote yourselves to VIP's as you have given up anyway!

Is anyone from staff going to answer, there is no loyalty anymore so just give your personal opinion, the site is dead if left in your hands (in your own news post). Are the current staff (at all levels) prepared to step aside for the good of the place! It's not YOUR site, the community made this place, surely you want it to live on?

I don't want the hassle of running this place but I am certainly not prepared to see it die completely!

I am will to help in anyway needed

#1536367 by EarwigDonor (VIP) at 2013-07-21 14:02:48 (6 days ago) - [Quote] - [Report]Top

Well, it's kind of sad that it's come to this, but for a long time I think we have all known it's not a matter of "If" but a matter of "When" :-(

It's really not as easy to run sites like this these days. Much has changed from the way things were done a few years ago and who's to say that others could do any better than what the staff have done right now ?

It's always been the case that staff come and staff go, but it's never been a case of everyone goes and eveyone comes in new. It's not really feasibile to do that IMO.

As has been said, I doubt this was a decision that has been made lightly and in all honesty I am kinda shocked that it's actually going to happen....

The end of an Era I guess.

#1536368 by Green (Der Tommy) at 2013-07-21 14:04:35 (6 days ago) - [Quote] - [Report]Top

Thanks Crewy! :group: :tblove:

Earwig wrote:



The end of an Era I guess.

Not gonna happen unless the current staff let it happen!

#1536369 by MrWhiteDonor (Didn't Wanna Be Called MrPink) at 2013-07-21 14:06:05 (6 days ago) - [Quote] - [Report]Top

Green wrote:

Staff have called "the end".

Give the site to someone who wants to carry it on, wipe the staff page! You have given up, surely it would be better to be VIP's on a site that might carry on than staff on a site that died!

Surely you want the place to carry on even if you are not running it? If not, TBy is the not the place for you. Many old staff have stepped aside for the good of the site, they had the balls to know when to leave!

Don't just select the 1st offer to run the place, there are many old trusted members around who like the old ways, who won't spank the place with ad's or pay2leech!

Put the site in their hands if you can't do it!

So "Tommy" tell me you want to take over and lead this...? EDIT: OK that's good news :smile:

Last edited by MrWhite at 2013-07-21 14:07:53

#1536370 by EarwigDonor (VIP) at 2013-07-21 14:07:25 (6 days ago) - [Quote] - [Report]Top

Green wrote:

Earwig wrote:



The end of an Era I guess.

Not gonna happen unless the current staff let it happen!

I hear what you are saying, but trust me it's a little more complicated than you might think to achieve what you are saying.

#1536373 by Green (Der Tommy) at 2013-07-21 14:11:33 (6 days ago) - [Quote] - [Report]Top

Not really but I will if needed, time is my problem not the balls!

I would pull the tracker, cut server costs, that gives us almost unlimited time to think of something. Hosting just the forum is going to cost next to nothing, paypal won't be an issue!

I am no coder but I am no pussy either! I'd put my name to something but I am not willing to do that for the current staff that are here. No offence but if you won't do it for us, I am not willing to do it for you to run the place!

It is nothing personal, I have no problems with any of them regarding any other issue. This, this is a different matter, this is not just them or me, this is us as a community! They are throwing in the towel, why not let someone else try!


@Earwig, removing the tracker URL, backing up and deleting the torrents for the time being, moving the forum in its current state to another host! what is the issue?

Last edited by Green at 2013-07-21 14:12:48

#1536374 by DXCDonor (The King) at 2013-07-21 14:13:00 (6 days ago) - [Quote] - [Report]Top

Earwig wrote:

I think we have all known it's not a matter of "If" but a matter of "When" :-(

I'm sorry to burst your bubble, but many people saw this coming months ago. The reason being: staff not taking actions. There are (ex)staffers who want this place to survive no matter what, but those who are responsible for the site and maintenance and security and donation system don't care, otherwise there would have been multiple donation systems years ago.

How do other sites survive? By simply adapting! TB stood still, not adapting at all for the last year. Many people tried, but those who could make it happen, denied all of it.

Earwig wrote:

As has been said, I doubt this was a decision that has been made lightly and in all honesty I am kinda shocked that it's actually going to happen....

It doesn't have to happen, hand it over to people who are willing and capable of allowing this site to survive, albeit by just the community at first.

#1536375 by Kaffefar (Power User) at 2013-07-21 14:14:46 (6 days ago) - [Quote] - [Report]Top

Aaaw, another huge blow to the internet. Thanks for everything TB- staff, uploaders and members alike. Havn't given up tho. There must be a way!

#1536376 by EarwigDonor (VIP) at 2013-07-21 14:26:21 (6 days ago) - [Quote] - [Report]Top

DXC wrote:

Earwig wrote:

I think we have all known it's not a matter of "If" but a matter of "When" :-(

I'm sorry to burst your bubble, but many people saw this coming months ago. The reason being: staff not taking actions. There are (ex)staffers who want this place to survive no matter what, but those who are responsible for the site and maintenance and security and donation system don't care, otherwise there would have been multiple donation systems years ago.

I know this, that is why I said no IF but WHEN.... Meaning it's been on the cards for a while.

Running my own site, we have looked into multiple ways to donate and although there are quite a few of them out there, actually putting them into action and being able to make use of them is not such an easy thing to do. In theory it sounds easy, but in practice it's an entirely different thing.


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@Earwig, removing the tracker URL, backing up and deleting the torrents for the time being, moving the forum in its current state to another host! what is the issue?

There is a lot of stuff in the staff forums, lots of people's history, Uploading groups, links to various topsites etc.... This is not something that can simply be given to a group of people. The only way this site could be taken and given to somebody elose would be a blank canvas..... Simply give the Domain name to someone and allow them to set it up again from scratch.

Last edited by Earwig at 2013-07-21 14:29:05

#1536377 by DXCDonor (The King) at 2013-07-21 14:28:23 (6 days ago) - [Quote] - [Report]Top

Earwig wrote:

In theory it sounds easy, but in practice it's an entirely different thing.

I know there's a difference between theory and practice, but if the majority of sites out there can survive like that, then why can't TB? Clearly TB is missing something.

#1536378 by ezzy525Donor (Not a spy, just a mod.) at 2013-07-21 14:29:34 (6 days ago) - [Quote] - [Report]Top

I'd happily stand down from Staff and be a normal member if the site continued in a forum-only format.

I don't care about the torrents tbh. You can google top 10 torrent sites and leech from them if you really want things. This site for me is about the community (of which I have been absent for the past few months, due to it being like a bloody cancer ward recently, we're all just waiting for the death of TBy and it's saddening.)

If the current administration won't release anything so TBy can live on, then when someone creates TByforum.net or something similar, I will be the first there.

I'm just a normal staff member, all I can do is ban you and moderate comments etc. I can't physically do anything to help/save the site.

It's been a good run chaps. See you all on the other side.

#1536379 by mbodnar (Airborne Mod) at 2013-07-21 14:30:57 (6 days ago) - [Quote] - [Report]Top

Staff were anything but standing still, that's patently ridiculous.   If the community can be salvaged I'm all for it and would gladly step aside for someone more capably of doing so, but I'm also far more inclined to offer gratitude, to the select few who have put considerable time and financial resources into keeping it going for the past six months, than completely uncalled for hostility.

#1536382 by ezzy525Donor (Not a spy, just a mod.) at 2013-07-21 14:33:13 (6 days ago) - [Quote] - [Report]Top

mbodnar wrote:

Staff were anything but standing still, that's patently ridiculous.   If the community can be salvaged I'm all for it and would gladly step aside for someone more capably of doing so, but I'm also far more inclined to offer gratitude, to the select few who have put considerable time and financial resources into keeping it going for the past six months, than completely uncalled for hostility.

I'll second that call of gratitude. Countless current and ex members/mods/admins have put more time and financial resources into this site than many care to admit.

#1536383 by pithawgDonor (Power User) at 2013-07-21 14:38:42 (6 days ago) - [Quote] - [Report]Top

Well? Who here can do anything about running the system and really add some much needed vitality. (Not Blaming) Or do we as we have always done.. move on, rename, re size, relocate. Maybe there is already away to move the good folks to another site, which i will not speak of. 

TydBits: The TBy community is alive somewhere..

RIP: Helen Thomas (Good for People) Forever in my memorandums.
      The best known freeworld thinker.

Progress can really suck, But my kids need food.

Last edited by pithawg at 2013-07-21 14:44:09

#1536384 by matoatlantisDonor (Power User) at 2013-07-21 14:45:21 (6 days ago) - [Quote] - [Report]Top

Absolutely agree with @green and others - let's fight to keep it up. For starters let's keep the forum up.

@admins: is there a way to share your avg graphs of monthly traffic to see what we are dealing with here ?

Last edited by matoatlantis at 2013-07-21 14:48:35

#1536385 by DwwwD (Power User) at 2013-07-21 14:46:01 (6 days ago) - [Quote] - [Report]Top

This announcement... right in the feels. Join date: 8 years ago T_T

Please don't give up guys. Or at least give it to someone else to take a chance with, I don't wanna wake up one day and suddenly I can't connect to the site. We need to fix something so at least we can stay in touch  and then try a reboot or something. I support the idea of just removing the tracker for now if that's what's needed to be done. At least it's better than a 404 error :/
 

IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT!
TorrentBytes is not dying... but here is a BACKUP FORUM - http://tb.badne.ws/index.php

 

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