onlinepersona@programming.dev to Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish · 2 days agoWhat happened to networks like eMule, WinMX, DC++, and so on?message-squaremessage-square21fedilinkarrow-up159arrow-down12file-text
arrow-up157arrow-down1message-squareWhat happened to networks like eMule, WinMX, DC++, and so on?onlinepersona@programming.dev to Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish · 2 days agomessage-square21fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareKorthrun@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11·2 days agoAfaik the person who wrote winmx is now publishing fopnu and darkmx. So it’s still around, just in a modern iteration.
minus-squareMr_fuzzy@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·16 hours agoOMG thank you so much. I didn’t know the devs were still active. I used to use winmx all the time.
minus-squareBrickfrog@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·edit-22 days agoYup. The Tixati torrent client is also developed by the same dev team (mainly Kevin Hearn I believe). I think that the timeline was WinMX, then Tixati, then Fopnu, then DarkMX. (Tixati / Fopnu / DarkMX are still actively developed and updated)
Afaik the person who wrote winmx is now publishing fopnu and darkmx. So it’s still around, just in a modern iteration.
OMG thank you so much. I didn’t know the devs were still active. I used to use winmx all the time.
Yup. The Tixati torrent client is also developed by the same dev team (mainly Kevin Hearn I believe).
I think that the timeline was WinMX, then Tixati, then Fopnu, then DarkMX. (Tixati / Fopnu / DarkMX are still actively developed and updated)