What happened to shadowdiablo.com?

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We're a few years ago, back when open bnet was still very active

ShadowDiablo was a diablo community. It wasn't all about hacking and cheating, there were both legit and hacked sub-communities. The main feature of the site and what made it differ from the hundreds of diablo community websites is, it offered the ability to upload and/or download character clones, which long story short, were savefiles shared to the community, for various reasons. Be it just getting a fully completed character to play with, or showing off a new concept or build. Both hacked and legit characters were available.

At some point, the administrator, in the hope of bringing more people to the site, Median XL being very popular at this time (like it always has been and still is), has added the option of uploading median clones, along with creating a sub-forum for it, etc. That's around the same time some guy whose name I forgot, released a modified version of ********, which is a character editor designed by SVR from the Phrozenkeep, that "worked" with Median XL character savefiles.

That's how I found the community myself, being a young wannabe hacker at the time, I was looking for MXL hacks on the interwebs, and of course found ShadowDiablo. I slowly learned things, and at the same time I was also slowly getting into programming, and eventually built hacked median clones for the community, and also released a better working version of the MXL editor. At some point Brother Laz also found out about ShadowDiablo, giving me that bad reputation within the median community, and I was banned from it. Although I came back with a few different nicknames. I became an administrator on ShadowDiablo for all the work I had done, releasing unique character clones, new tools, etc.

Then my interest for MXL and hacking declined, as my interest for just modding and programming was growing. At this time, someone named Matt. J on ShadowDiablo had released a game administration tool called D2Guard, which was really useful back then when open bnet was still active. The guy went inactive, and D2Guard lacked a few features still. That's when I decided to make a "mod" for it with someone named Dimentio. Eventually I found out how to make it work and added a few commands to the tool, showing everything to Dimentio. While I was sleeping, the guy actually applied all the edits I showed off to him and released the tool under his name, without the slightest mention of my name. And all his time spent on this community has pretty much been spent stealing other's work and releasing it under his name after that. When I tried to say something about it, all my titles on the website were eventually revoked, and people treated me like I was the bad guy, because all they cared about was new tools & releases, didn't matter where they came from.

Seeing how they were ungrateful for all the work I had done for this community and the thousand of new visitors I brought to the site, and seeing they preferred praising their new savior Dimentio, I deleted everything I had ever released on this website, through various little security fails in the website. The site activity started noticeably declining after I was gone and that everything I had released was removed, and so I guess Jon, the administrator of the site just shut it down.
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Any chance to see a new editor for MXL ? :-P
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ShadowDiablo was shut down by the host in 2013, because Jon didn't pay for the hosting anymore, and because of the gayporn Klotz(Late Admin) found hidden on the website, the porn was deleted, but the site was already flaged as "dangerous".

Open Bnet was already dead by 2011-12 anyways, and most of the reputable players stoped playind D2 after the release of patch 1.13. A few of us remained on the site as ghosts of the former community, to help newcomers and for nostalgic reasons I guess.

We wanted to reopen the site a year ago, we have all the clones and some backup of the forum, but it's pointless I guess.
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I never heard your side of the story, but now I understand the whole thing between you and Dimentio. They are still active though, Matt J and Dimentio, with the new tool, even 32 people can join one game and make 16v16 duels, etc.

whist wrote:We're a few years ago, back when open bnet was still very active

ShadowDiablo was a diablo community. It wasn't all about hacking and cheating, there were both legit and hacked sub-communities. The main feature of the site and what made it differ from the hundreds of diablo community websites is, it offered the ability to upload and/or download character clones, which long story short, were savefiles shared to the community, for various reasons. Be it just getting a fully completed character to play with, or showing off a new concept or build. Both hacked and legit characters were available.

At some point, the administrator, in the hope of bringing more people to the site, Median XL being very popular at this time (like it always has been and still is), has added the option of uploading median clones, along with creating a sub-forum for it, etc. That's around the same time some guy whose name I forgot, released a modified version of ********, which is a character editor designed by SVR from the Phrozenkeep, that "worked" with Median XL character savefiles.

That's how I found the community myself, being a young wannabe hacker at the time, I was looking for MXL hacks on the interwebs, and of course found ShadowDiablo. I slowly learned things, and at the same time I was also slowly getting into programming, and eventually built hacked median clones for the community, and also released a better working version of the MXL editor. At some point Brother Laz also found out about ShadowDiablo, giving me that bad reputation within the median community, and I was banned from it. Although I came back with a few different nicknames. I became an administrator on ShadowDiablo for all the work I had done, releasing unique character clones, new tools, etc.

Then my interest for MXL and hacking declined, as my interest for just modding and programming was growing. At this time, someone named Matt. J on ShadowDiablo had released a game administration tool called D2Guard, which was really useful back then when open bnet was still active. The guy went inactive, and D2Guard lacked a few features still. That's when I decided to make a "mod" for it with someone named Dimentio. Eventually I found out how to make it work and added a few commands to the tool, showing everything to Dimentio. While I was sleeping, the guy actually applied all the edits I showed off to him and released the tool under his name, without the slightest mention of my name. And all his time spent on this community has pretty much been spent stealing other's work and releasing it under his name after that. When I tried to say something about it, all my titles on the website were eventually revoked, and people treated me like I was the bad guy, because all they cared about was new tools & releases, didn't matter where they came from.

Seeing how they were ungrateful for all the work I had done for this community and the thousand of new visitors I brought to the site, and seeing they preferred praising their new savior Dimentio, I deleted everything I had ever released on this website, through various little security fails in the website. The site activity started noticeably declining after I was gone and that everything I had released was removed, and so I guess Jon, the administrator of the site just shut it down.
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PaulMP wrote:I never heard your side of the story, but now I understand the whole thing between you and Dimentio. They are still active though, Matt J and Dimentio, with the new tool, even 32 people can join one game and make 16v16 duels, etc.

How nice to see after all these years he's still stealing others work and spewing his name all over it. Chances are he ripped this off from lolet.
Anyways, long time no see Paul :)