x264 News - Site is officially gone

[logitech]

From IRC:
 

 

Hello internets,

Well, the news you hoped would never come, but feared was already upon you, is here. x264 has survived for many years through good times and bad, multiple owners, server crashes, ddos attacks, paypal shenanigans, and everyone's favorite.. domain changes. But this most recent loss of server and hosting has broken the camel's back. It's time to stop beating this horse. It's dead.

Oh, I don't know, what can I do? What else can I say, it's up to you. I know we're one, just me and you. I can't go on. What is love? Baby don't hurt me, don't hurt me, no more.

Today would have been our 13th bday... and that's just... too old! :-| But srsly, it is hard to believe that for over a decade, I (and of course many wonderful staff and users) have been been building and maintaining this community. I'm not really sure how to sum up such a large chunk of time and of many of our lives. So much inane IRC chatter. So many forum posts. So many movies. So many friends. So many bans.

On behalf of the staff x264.us/x264.eu/x264.me, both current and past, I want to thank everyone for this opportunity that I could never really talk to anyone about. Maybe now I can tell people about how I used to be a big deal on the internet. About filling the tubes with enormous amounts of material. About making friends on the other side of the world, because I was regularly still awake at 4am, talking shit on IRC. About our little piece of the tubes, x264.me. We thank you all.

Good night, and good luck. /x2

P.S. The IRC channel is hosted separately and will remain online. Ya know.. for the lurking. irc.xevion.net #x264

[bodhi]

Its sad to see how good, old trackers are gone one by one...

[Coldsoul]

Sad that it’s official