Mininova 1 year young!

Hey everybody, today is the first birthday of mininova!
About a year ago, I started working on a website that would replace SuprNova, a very popular BitTorrent site that cancelled its services in December 2004. Shortly after I started, my friends Erik, Jos, Matthijs en Rob joined the mininova staff.

Who could ever have thought that 1 year later, this website would be the number 1 place for millions of people worldwide to get torrents off?

What was the reason for mininovas huge growth?

  • Was it the simple layout?
  • The perfect timing after SuprNovas shutdown?
  • The many revolutionary and advanced features?
  • The forum with its great community?

The only thing I know for sure is that we’ll stay here with you, the BitTorrent users :)

Of couse I’d like to say thanks to everybody who helped us (the staff) accomplish what we’ve got now:

  • You, the users! For getting fresh torrents from mininova every day!
  • All our moderators, at the forum and the site. Their work is probably invisible for you, but they accomplish huge things. Without them, mininova would be a mess…
  • Anakata from ThePirateBay, for hosting the website the first week (for free!)
  • Gary from isoHunt, for hosting our servers a month in exchange for recommending his site
  • FD for his help setting up the forum and the servers at Leaseweb
  • The guys from Leaseweb for hosting our servers for almost a year now
  • And everybody else who I forgot

I’d like to emphasise that we’ve just started, and we’ve got a long way to go! I’m sure many interesting and important things will happen this year.

As usual, we’d like to know what you, as a BitTorrent user, would like to see changed on mininova. Please share your ideas by posting a comment in this blog.

Personally, I was thinking that a new design for mininova would be a good idea (the current layout is getting quite old). Having said that: if you’re working for a webdesign company and you’re interested in a nice offer, feel free to contact me.