Jigle gone too

[z05+3R0p5]

Jigle closed down in the wake of the Sharereactor crackdown. Here's the message you get at http://jigle.com:

Sorry, this service is closed.

The ShareReactor has been shut down due to legal issues (if you speak german read here) and it is unclear whether and when it will return. Since my servers are hosted there I've decided to shut my services down even though it seems it was decided to kindly leave them running. How could I cause SimonMoon any additional financial costs in the situation he is in now?

I had (and still have) several principles in this project: make a neutral statistical service, be legal, no ads, no filename tagging, try to cause least possible load on the ed2k network. I say that to to give two answers to some of the questions I got from your e-Mails: No, I will not sell it and I will also not open-source it. I simply fear I would hate to see the results of either of these options. Also, moving the service is not easy because it involves moving a 30G file in order to put the filename history back up.

Finally, I've really grown tired of all this in the recent time, please forgive me, but it's a good time to stop for a while. I will donate my hardware to SimonMoon so he can sell it or do whathever he thinks is the right thing to do, if he wants. I'm so sorry about all this.

So long, thanks to all the people that helped me through the previous two years with this project, THANK YOU for your wonderfull e-mails you've sent me recently,

Christian ([email protected]).


This really is bad news. Jigle is one of the few things that made the Donkey superior for rare files. The in-program search function will do, but it is a pain to handle.

R.I.P. Jigle and many thanks Chris for the wonderful site you gave us... and of course, the big question:

Any alternatives?

I know of Filedonkey http://www.filedonkey.com and eMoogle http://emoogle.com, but neither comes even close in terms of search comfort and actually finding what you need.

[hawkburn]

Well there truely was, and most likely never will be anything like ShareReactor/Jigle.

It's like the same as if SuprNova were closed. It was be a devastation to the network.

To answer the question: No, sorry, I haven't any information pertaining to where you might find a replacement.

[shawners]

the only thing i can recommend is posting it up on freenet.