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THE E-BOURGEOISIE OF HONGFIRE HAS FALLEN

RISE UP TORRENTARIANS, RISE UP DDLERS, TIME TO TAKE MATTERS IN YOUR OWN HANDS

Well, that's that, then.

It could easily be fixed just by moving the server, but I guess the chief of the site just got too tired to bother. We're all human.

look at all the comments of the brown-nosers saying they're just glad the site is back. They'll eventually leave. The owners had better learn quick that they're effectively killing their site unless they reestablish some sort of filesharing system, even if its under a different domain server like they though about.

http://www.anime-sharing.com/forum/index.php

All the uploader regulars have already moved to here. It's got all the usual download sections from Hongfire, and already has all the latest eroge releases (and CG packs).

Use this,http://userstyles.org/styles/54391/anime-sharing-tweaks
To make the site not look like ass.

>>7940503
Way to advertise, bro.

I wonder if they will simply delete the sections, or if they will at least archive it/store it offline.
When their traffic plummets, I wonder if they wouldn't consider putting it back up online.

Then again, I somehow bet the staff of the site would be satisfied with only their closest circle visiting the site.

>>7940507
Hongfire's admins have always lived in a fantasy world about how much Hongfire's community matters and how good it is. The fact they have hundreds of users to suck them off doesn't help.

I'd be surprised if they relented. Which is a shame; the archives were an amazingly large trove of great shit.

You guys actually goes to forum to find new downloads link?
Isn't looking for new files in a forum is kinda messy since you can't see what inside of the thread until you open it?
and most of them sometime never post a screenshots of those files.

>>7940512
> Isn't looking for new files in a forum is kinda messy since you can't see what inside of the thread until you open it?

Read the title?

>>7940512
The title of the thread described the content. It's a decent enough system for things like eroge download sections, as all you really need to know is the title of the game inside.

For doujin, it isn't optimal (unless you know the title or author of the doujin). Problem is, for doujin there isn't much choice between blogs (and wading through pages and pages of shit), or sites like Fakku who make it a pain in the ass to actually download, and do dumv shit like compressing images.

Ideally, you'd have some sort of forum-esque system, but with the covers visible as thumbnails. If a cover looks inviting, open the thread in a tab.

>>7940527
>Home sewing is killing fashion

>>7940532
>>7940534

I just wondering why people doesn't use a better organizes place to, HF download section already gone shit since 2008 when dozen of money grubber uploaders start spamming that place.
I swear i can find 12 same threads posting a link to same file uploaded by different posters.

>>7940546
I'll admit I only visit the torrents. The DDL section is chaotic shit, yes.

>>7940546
I just use Google. "whatever site:hongfire.com" usually works fine for getting decent links.

>>7940556

Filestube is better.

>>7940546
Because Hongfire is the only place you can find good eroge torrents. And I have google helps me too.
I refuse to go to erogedownload or whatever site that use rapidshit ddl links. They are the cancer that's killing the internet.

>>7940569

>gib seed plox

Why not scrape the sites for info and index them according to useful taxonomic dimensions?

>>7940574
I'd rather downloading by torrent for a week than using their shitty rapidshit.

>>7940579

What if there was no seeds at all?

>>7940569
>Because Hongfire is the only place you can find good eroge torrents
The really good uploaders on hongfire post their torrents on other sites, like Tokyotosho even.

>>7940585
If the torrent is old enough that there were no seeds then they would be deleted from the ddl hosts too.

This is the internet. There'll be a new site to mimic Hongfire very quickly.

>>7940546
>I just wondering why people doesn't
jesus...

>>7940585
I once waited four months for a torrent to become seeded. And then it did. And then I seeded it for four months. Patience.

http://steamcommunity.com/id/Cool_Rock/
want to buy a dead ringer for a scrap, gonna make a weapon for a friend since i have nothing else to do.

>>7940596
There already is one.

Alex, is that you?

>>7940481
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>>7940481
>>7940481
>>7940481
>>7940481
>>7940481

FAKE
PLEASE TELL ME IT'S FAKE

>>7940707
http://www.hongfire.com/forum/content.php/224-Important-announcement

It's true.

>>7940710
>(We might move the torrent and DDL forums to another new domain server in the future.)
exhentai v2.0

>But Hongfire isn't just about Torrents and Games and stuff, it's a community where everyone can share their interests and get to know each other, right? Of course, everyone would hope it will come back, but let's be patient. I have a feeling it will return in the future May Hongfire live on forever ^^
>this is what he really believes

>>7940717

>Community

I tried one time to register at Hongfire because I felt guilty for leeching.
I posted two times and never went back

Its a shame to lose a great place for easy downloads of new VN's and so on.

But to be fair without the DDL/Torrent section the place is just utter shit.
I expect a 90% drop in the user base after this.

Nothing of value was lost.

>>7940724
>Join Date: 08-24-2006
>Posts: 0
Leeching is the best~

>>7940727
Actually we lost the largest eroge source.

>>7940751
Tokyotosho and (especially) anime-sharing have that covered. Every recently release game is accounted for, which bodes well for the future.

>>7940561
you know filestube just indexes links from hongfire right?

>>7940503
Thank you!

>>7940727
Sure, if you want to use share and other jap alternatives. (which I think are not secure).
I already can't find some Eroge like
http://www.dlsite.com/maniax/work/=/product_id/RJ083299.html
Anywhere. (Nihonmaru/Eroge blogs)
Stuff like this would have already been posted on hongfire.

Sad, really.
Stuff like DRM was no challenge for HF.

>>7940503
I'm taking a look at it, thanks!

anime-sharing torrents tend to get stuck at 99.7% though. It's pretty annoying having to repair rar files.

>>7940534
>for doujin there isn't much choice between blogs (and wading through pages and pages of shit), or sites like Fakku
Exhentai? Yes, they do this dumb GP/credits shit that prevents you from downloading at first, but it's not that hard to get behind that.

Someone should create a private torrent tracker for eroges.

>>7941657
What, yet another one?

>>7941683
Like what?

>>7941693
The problem with private trackers: YOU'RE not welcome.

Sure is gone all right.

http://www.hongfire.com/forum/forumdisplay.php/101-Torrents
http://www.hongfire.com/forum/forumdisplay.php/152-Direct-Download-Links

>>7943310
torrents seem to work but DDLs are blocked, at least on my account it is...

kinda sucks because some torrents have really low seeds

Who gives a fuck?

Oh wait, virgin losers who need to fap to eroge. Nothing of value was lost; go outside and talk to girls.

I can still use my DC hubs.

>>7943814
>posted the /jp/sie from his iphone as he sat alone in the corner

DDLs are gone for me too. Worked a few hours ago.

Fuck Hongfire.

>>7941872
The solution is to have an open signup the first few days and post it on /jp/.

A private tracker would also prevent old eroges from running out of seeds.

>>7943830


>Implying that /jp/sies have money for iphones.

>>7943898
As if I'd ever seed anything.

They're US-based, what the fuck do you expect them to do? Get assraped in federal prison?

You're a dipshit if you ever went to HF to download crap in the first place. It's only the modding community that matters, which is perfectly fine.

Fucking faggot /a/ssholes everywhere.

>>7943917
I don't want to resort to PD and waste 40 fucking GB on useless cache or wade through google pages for obscure shit when a simple search from the HF forums usually delivers.

Please off yourself.

>>7943914
I have the money, I just don't care. Seeing threads about jacking off always make me depressed. Oh well, I guess the people who work on mods deserve some recognition.

>>7943934
TT, dumbass.

>>7943946
Still doesn't have as big of a collection as HF, dipshit.

>>7943976
It does now.

>>7943946
Good luck finding a seeded old torrent.

>>7943976
>>7943993
Yep, with HF gone I'm sure they won't ever be re-upped and listed on TT. Unthinkable, right?

>>7943993
That shit was never seeded. HF used a public tracker and DDLs.

>>7943917
It depends on what you wanted to download.
If its eroge, HF was the best source. Sure there was lots of stuff on blogs too, but never such a complete archive.
Especially smaller games, that only had 10-20 downloads on DLSite. Thats usually stuff you only find on HF. (unless you want to use unsecure jap programs).

>>7943310
Total Posts: 139
Join Date: 05-24-2007
Lots of Rep because I made a game like slavemaker on HF.
Still can't access the Download section. This is pretty random on who can connect it seems.

>>7944003
VIP and admins. How is that random?

You're just not one of the cool kids like me.

>>7943996
Yep. How do you think those old games get reuploaded? Someone requested it.

What's nice about HF is that they have quite a few hoarders that reupload old games if someone request it.

I could see the ddl and torrent sections when I checked 2 days ago, but now it says I can't.

Why would they take the DDL down? I thought the reason they got in trouble in the frist place was because of all of the shit hosted on their tracker.

>>7944017
And now they'll hoard elsewhere. What are you not getting?

Supply and demand always balances out on the internet, and very quickly.

>>7944008
Was reading in another thread on /jp/ that users registred 2-3 months ago with no posts could access it.

Seems they changed that.


also your fake elitism seems out of place, please practise some more with that

>>7944032
>balances out

I hope so, it's just sometimes shit like this breaks the communities up and makes things worse. Hongfire had a good thing going for what it was.

>>7944042
I know, bad example to post on /jp/.
But I wrote it before:
When Empornium and Puretna were gone, with millions of porn torrents, I didn't see something that huge reappearing.

>>7944042
So did geocities, napster, myspace and hotbot before they disappeared. Would you rather have them or wikis, tpb, facebook, and google?

Well, maybe not facebook, but you get the point.

>>7944062
Cheggit

So basically now it is like every other normalfag breeding ground. Great.

ETA on when their HF patches become donation only.