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.
yo keep the site high in the sky you know what i mean alright, And congratulations By the way Peace
thnxz for the everyday torrents!…… great job and keep up the good work
more years to comE 
plus keep the site simple like it used to be 
pZ
Happy Birthday!
I also think the layout is good as it is now, nice and simple . . .
Congrats~!!!
Keep up the good work and many more happy years to come… and not to forget THANKS a lot for the daily updates of torrents….
decided to finally sign up today… all my buddies use this site and I have a few times knowing that it’s the only one that’s ever worked for me.
I can find what I want if you have it (which 98% of the time you do… either that or the other 2% it’s because I either typed it wrong or else it just doesn’t exist anyway) and everything is easy to navigate. You guys rock
It seems much longer than a year.. Seems like 10 years. Great Job..
Thahks for all your hard work.
This is my favorite torrent site. Most of the time I don’t need to look elsewhere. And the simplicity of the layout makes it a joy to use. I’m amazed at how otherwise good torrent sites complicate matters with complex, difficult-to-navigate interfaces.
happy birthday and congratulation for mininova
Way to go
Must be best!
Hi happy birthaday ti every one how now celebrate this events…but i want to know other sites like mininova…..Yeah yeah..mini nova is the best..but i want to know and a few others….thanks for the responds….
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Good work guys. Best site going.I can’t thank my son enough for turning me on to mininova. Hope you stick around for a long time. Happy B day.
Son lejos la mejor pagina del mundo! muchas gracias por todo lo que hacen! espero ke esten “Online” mucho tiempo mas!
FELICIDADES DESDE CHILE!
MININOVA THE GREAT..wow..keep it up.
YOU ROCK!!!
THANK YOU VERY MUCH PEPOLE YOU ARE THE BEST TORRENT SITE THATS OUT THERE
FROM ISRAEL WITH LOVE.
you are doing a great job and thank you for that this site have every thing that many big torrent sites dont have
AND AGIN THANK YOU AND BEST OF LUCK.
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i mean in my message 667 to make a picture of mini nova in letter but as you see it wont work out so sorry for the niss understending and agin you are the best
Gratzz and many thnx for the great torrents…. i hope you will yall will still excist when my grand grand grand grand children are old enough to use mininova
see yall
oh mininova, make me the happiest kid in school and say you’ll go to the prom with me…
Mininova.org is the best!!!
Arigato go Zai masta. Bon Appetite.
Gracious. Je Suis. Wastashi Wa. Do des ka.
mininova rocks !!
Natasha forgots OBRIGADO!
Congratulations!!
Congrats, i hope you are around for a hell of a long time to come……nice 1
congratz you guys have a great site
yehawwwwwwwww!!! i wanna say thanks to u all! without mininova…life its dull to me hahahaha! its awesome and i wish u all the best for tomorrow!
CONGRATS!
Happy BIrthday! Well Done for lasting so long without getting arrested! Haha! Keep up the good work everyone.
A life saver….keeping me up to date with lost and others so that I don’t have to wait …Happy birthday
Congratulations, live for more 100 years .
Congrats Mininova…. i was a HUGE fan of Suprnova till they got shutdown. you had some pretty big shoes to fill and i would say that youve done it VERY well. Great site keep up the fantastic work guys. I hope your around for a very long time
Many many happy returns. Couldn’t live without you. Keep on.
Awesome, making my life easier.
Congrats!!! All the best for more years
U guys ROCK thank you for the good service!!!!
thank you so very much!!!! luv ya!!!
Congrats guys! Mininova is absolutely the greatest bittorrent site and I love it to bits!!
w00t really nice…keep up the good work thanks!!!!
con-fucking-grats
LONG LIVE MININOVA, MY BEST WISH’S ARE WITH THIS WEBSITE..I LOVE THIS SITE..I COME HERE EVERY SINGLE DAY !! THIS IS THE ONLY WEBSITE WHERE I DOWNLOAD 99% OF ALL MY TORRENTS…THANKS MININOVA WE ALL ALOVE U.
Hi !
Its THE BEST TORRENT SITE !!!
Torrent=Mininova Thks for everything!!!
Fantastic work
thanks a lot for your site!!!!
great torrent search engine!
hope will be alive forever….
Wow! LONG LIVE MININOVA!!!
Congratz, my favorite torrent site!
Congratultions! Mininova is a great BT site. I like it’s simplicity as well. There’s always room for improvement, but please don’t put tons and tons of advertisements and those pop-ups as some of the BT site have. There are a few sites (I won’t name) that I don’t go on anymore because of the over-abundant ads and pop-ups which are quite annoying. The layouts are too busy. Perhaps you could add a bit of color, say colored borders etc, but your layout at the moment is great and is easier on the eye. I like changes and we all look forward to any improvements you make. Keep up the good work and thanks for your hard work on this site!
congratulation for mininova
The Website is great do not change a thing on the interface
for ads the google way with text ads its ok…
This site is the best ever, i work for IBM, so I have to use this site very often…Keep up the good work XD =]
I have used mininova for the past year since the suprnova.org got closed, and i have to say this is the next site, which has lots of great content like suprnova!
Nice pure torrent from a great provider!