hey folks, demonoid is back. guess what? it could have been back sooner than you thought.

it seems like (to my eyes anyway) that the main roadblock in the site coming back was the site admin himself. deimos was his handle. if these "real world issues" were so encompassing that running a torrent website was simply out of the question, then why the hell didn't he turn over the site months ago? the moderation team at the subdemon(oid) forums were childish to put it mildly, and the fanbois were that much worse. you know how sad it is to see multiple threads titled "WHEN WILL DEMONOID BE
BACK??????????" or similar in tne subdemon forums over and over ad nauseam ad infinitum? i had posted in the forums there and i'll say it here- ALL of this could have been alleviated if deimos had just made one post in the announcements section at the subdemon forums, the content of said section was really an list of rules. these "real world issues" i guess must have been really important for deimos to never have said anything at all ever in that fourm. wonder how he found time to make posts in other threads of non-importance...

i have no idea what the timeline of events was, but the way the message on the front page reads, it seems like it was a short time ago. like in the past week. the few times i checked the subdemon forums, i did not see any announcement of a site admin change. when you add in the reports that the pirate bay offering up server space for demonoid, plus another tracker relocating to canada after demonoid went down and the turnaround time of it coming back up when it has gone down in the past, i think you in the end have a story of an absent admin who was negligent in their duties. deimos failed as an admin at his site's most crucial time in its existence. if life somehow became overwhelming so that he couldn't have run his site, turn it over to someone who could, a lesson learned months later. if he saw these issues coming up in the horizon, he should have turned the site over to someone who could run it in his absence. i can't speak for anyone else, but if i had a tight team of people i trusted and i had to go away for an undetermined time, i would have turned things over a long time ago.

i have used and will use the site, mainly because it is one of the best audiobook torrent sites on the internet (and someone please develop an audiobook dedicated site in the future please. there is a big audiobook community out there, i have a very large collection of such) so i'm glad the site is back. being grateful its back is one thing. essentially taking a dump on your users by having no announcements and then finding out it could have been back months ago is another. it should be a lesson
to other bittorrent users on the intarwebs- don't rely so heavily on one site to get your pirated goods.
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edit: about that timeline? i may have been a bit off. instead of being something that happened in a week, it looks like it may have happened in a day. demonoid kool-aid drinkers, hear this and know this- YOU WERE PLAYED. the site could have easily come back quickly, but because of the site admin whom you loved, fawned over and protected so diligently decided to take a crap on you and pretty much walk out on you all without turning things over, the interwebs is treating deimos with kid gloves. screw that. be remorseful about his personal life, but his life as an admin deserves and needs intense scrutiny and criticism.