Demonoid Returns After a 3 Month Blackout

December 13, 2009 by sharky

If you haven’t heard the news by now, Demonoid has finally made their return; as TorrentFreak caught the scoop early this morning. Many feared the worst: accounts that may have vanished, or ratios not being updated correctly (not that this really matters). Not much of this has happened, mind you - Demonoid seems to be running almost exactly as it did before the extended downtime. But whatever happened to all the torrents?

Demonoid’s Missing Torrents

Stats suggest that Demonoid has lost 25 percent of their torrents, which includes mostly their own internally-tracked ones. Demonoid presently lists 212,380 total torrents (down from 283,606 on September 1st).

Sept 1st - Internal	Sept 1st - External	Today - Internal	Today - External
241,872	41,734	172,396	39,263

Their heaviest loss comes from their internal torrents, as Demonoid shows to have lost nearly 30% of their overall "internal" torrent database. Part of this could be attributed to Demonoid’s own losses when the site/tracker went down, but we suspect that most likely the issue stems from people simply not seeding their torrents anymore. And who can blame them? Three months is a long time to leave inactive torrents seeding in a home BitTorrent client.

The torrent count is beginning to rebound nicely, we might add. More than 600 new torrents have already been added to Demonoid today alone (370 of them hosted on their own tracker).

At the time of this post, Demonoid’s forums (fora) are still offline, and the site is not open directly to new registration. Their invite system is fully functional, feel free to post registration codes - surely there are new torrenters that have yet to experience Demonoid.

Welcome back, Demonoid!

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