I was hit hard by btjunkie [1] going down. IMO, nothing yet has been able to replace it
If you have time would you mind sharing the top 3 unique/favorite features? I'm not an expert in this space but I'm curious what it was that made BTJunkie so special.
The search results felt a lot like Google's. That is, the end user puts in minimal effort and automagically their torrents showed up with high ranking. The site itself was fast and minimal. The torrents had comments where an active community left notes (e.g. media quality, warnings, etc)
isohunt was later but was also really good for quite a while.
What was one of the first ones I'll never remember the name of? I swear it was part-run by the guy that actually invented Bit Torrent, but it also might've been a spin-off. I can visualise the website in my head but I can't place the name!