i have so many new updates. anyways, i created new DC and TG.
hope AO-Download Candies will be back again asap.
hope AO-Download Candies will be back again asap.
There isn't much actual activity on this forum, as far as I can tell it's mostly people spamming JAV downloads, not much discussion.This is truly a sad day. And it couldn't have happened at a worse time. It would have been nice if someone had preserved the torrent index before shutting down the torrent forum, but it is what it is I guess. I honestly only ever used this site for Jr. Idol stuff so I'm probably gonna dip. It was fun while it lasted. Peace. Good luck for the future everyone, I hope you all go on to live happy lives and make your dreams come true. Hidden signing out.
The entire site has been mostly a download spam by a few users ever since the file hosting partnerships started, honestly. It's become less of a community and more of a way for a few users to make some money by sharing content through these sponsored hosts.There isn't much actual activity on this forum as far as I can tell it's mostly people spamming JAV downloads, not much discussion.
For actual JAV and 18+ gravure discussion there are better places, so for me the only real draw here was JI.
I didn't want to blatantly say it but this is correct, the filejoker sponsorship ruined sharing since it incentivized the trickling of content, someone buys a subscription on one of the few remaining sites, splits the galleries into 100 different links and forces you to download a 30mb archive for 50 minutes unless you pay $20+ for a premium account that costs more than the subscription on the actual gravure site. They get payed for pretty much wasting your time.The entire site has been mostly a download spam by a few users ever since the file hosting partnerships started, honestly. It's become less of a community and more of a way for a few users to make some money by sharing content through these sponsored hosts.
The amount of "XYZ Exclusive" downloads has all but exploded over the years, to the point where most of the DDL threads only have links to these sponsored hosts.
And the torrent sections are basically on life support, since everyone prefers posting on the DDL ones to try to make a few bucks.
Pretty much all sense of community the website had in the late 2000s is gone at this point, and all of that moved to the few Discord/Element servers made by members with similar tastes.
This might be correct, but it is definitely not the whole story.I didn't want to blatantly say it but this is correct, the filejoker sponsorship ruined sharing since it incentivized the trickling of content, someone buys a subscription on one of the few remaining sites, splits the galleries into 100 different links and forces you to download a 30mb archive for 50 minutes unless you pay $20+ for a premium account that costs more than the subscription on the actual gravure site. They get payed for pretty much wasting your time.
Then you have people who are more focused on reuploading old rips and backups that they didn't even buy on file joker instead of properly archiving it or maybe trying to recover some of the lost/missed ones that are scattered throughout the aftermarket since most of the makers shut down.
Plenty of private torrent trackers do exactly that: keep obscure content accessible long-term, for free, while relying on donations. On the rare occasions donation goals aren't met, the admins just foot the bill as a group, in the name of keeping stuff accessible. Though it's usually pretty rare, as members are keen to help.Filejoker is just a means to keep the lights on here. People might be frustrated about paying membership fees for it, but someone someplace has to cover the overhead of site operation. What is a better business model? Sell ads? Pledge drives? I don’t think you will find many better options than partnership with a file host. You want to archive content? Great! Where, and who is going to pay for it and control access? That question is never answered.
Piracy is free, and what's happening in the downloads sub-forums on AO is piracy. JAV, IV and U-15 aren't special snowflakes. In fact, there are entire communities built around sharing JAV and IV for free. Or even anime, where Japanese boxsets are usually prohibitively expensive. All for free, for the pleasure of sharing, archiving content and making it available for others.The root cause of the failure is much closer to home. People came here feeling entitled to free content, and guess what? It failed because nothing in this life is free.
The cause of the subforum's closure and the terrible sharing culture are two separate issues, as already well stated it is possible if your passionate enough about the content to pay put of pocket to host a community. the admins taking filejoker sponsorship was probably the beginning of their disinterest in the content/community. I don't really blame them for that, my criticism is more towards the scavengers that are left to take over.The root cause of the failure is much closer to home. People came here feeling entitled to free content, and guess what? It failed because nothing in this life is free. I’m as sad as the next guy to see this result, but there is no conspiracy here and no mystery as to what caused it.
I think this would be the ultimate goal, at least after enough content has been amassed. Only obstacle is i think this type of thing needs talented web devs/engineers. If anyone wants to take a crack at it I'm willing to put money into it.Plenty of private torrent trackers do exactly that
For those curious about what he means, this is something I released last week: https://civitai.com/models/8645/anju-kozukiAlso the dawn of AI generated JIs is upon us