WDL1 permanently retired
I've retired the Chicago mirror wdl1 indefinitely as I will likely be moving servers shortly and the flat honest truth is I'm not going to pay for ~40mbit of bandwidth for your free downloads on a premium network. There's other things on this box that need a higher quality network than what we have now and that is my top priority. WDL3 has also been removed as it's been out of service for quite some time. Throughout the years I've been given reason after reason to not care for the majority of our user base which is ungrateful bratty kids who want to try shit at no cost to them, whine when things don't work and otherwise contribute nothing of quality. I don't honestly care to waste my paycheck on you types of people anymore. There are communities which will cater to these types and accept any low grade crap they can produce but this is not one of them.
The mirror in France will remain online as long as Rioter cares to keep paying for it. Forums and site will remain as long as there's activity and nothing crashes.
For the good folks out there who didn't post inane shit thanks for a good 10 years.
The mirror in France will remain online as long as Rioter cares to keep paying for it. Forums and site will remain as long as there's activity and nothing crashes.
For the good folks out there who didn't post inane shit thanks for a good 10 years.
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Regarding torrents, they would only work if people kept seeding after completion, which most people don't. On a site like WinWorld with a huge number of files and a relatively small number of visitors it'd be next to impossible to keep them active without having servers set up as permanent seeds. I guarantee the majority of people would download a shitload of files and not even seed a fraction of what they downloaded. Personally I try to be a courteous pirate and seed to at least a 1.25 ratio. We could try uploading the torrents to multiple sites in addition to WinWorld in an attempt to generate seeds and site traffic, but I doubt it'd be enough and could draw unnecessary attention. The only other torrent-related option I could think of would be a private tracker and we don't have the userbase to sustain that. Not to mention part of WinWorld's appeal is the fact that a lot of people don't like/trust BitTorrent, or simply can't use it for one reason or another.
TL;DR - BitTorrent isn't and has never been a viable option for our download library.
Somewhat OT: Eventually I'd like to get my own Kimsufi box, especially now that they have servers hosted in the US instead of France. My experience with them through using Rioter's dedi has left with me a relatively positive impression. If I ever do, I'll set up a mirror. Problem is my needs are minimal enough I don't think I could justify a dedicated server for myself, which is why I'm glad Rioter is nice enough to let me and others mooch off his box for my backups / Mumble / Minecraft....
Jeebus. For personal use, you'd never use that up.
It has been invaluable at times to be able to just go directly to a reliable source for some uncommon and otherwise underrated archive file. The nice thing about the WinWorld collection has been that it is a coherent, well organized, unified collection. And it isn't just darn games. The WinWorld files have always been easily accessible, not buried in advertising, not behind any pay/subscription wall, and not hosted on some random cluster of home PCs that might contain stuff you don't want to go anywhere near.
Thanks again!
WDL2 remains online. I don't see it going down any time soon.