This original topic below by Bankrobber was trashed. Why I don't know.
Well I think it's a great idea for a topic so I'm reposting it and highlighting the rules for people to take into account when replying so staff won't have any reason to trash it.

RULES
So we are allowed to talk about DESIGN. This is evident in all the warez sites in the Site Reviews area. Think of this thread as a global review thread. Design is stuff like layout, features, ease of use, navigation, uniqueness etc and has nothing to do with filehosts or how to make money.

So in response to Bankrobbers initial post my reply is below. Feel free to reply keeping in mind the rules such as uploading or making money so staff won't trash this topic.

My Reply to Original Topic
I don't like OneDDL as their is no personal feel to the content. It's feels automated and has all being done before compared to eg rlslog where it feels more personal. As for my favorite or best designed that's a tough question. I honestly did think Katz.cd was great. I was the first to have stuff like site ratings, the file hosts and preventing duplicates, and they did other things really well like the blacklist reasons, Firefox plugin etc. I though the way of emailing constantly for support wasn't great and the WCP sucked but they had features that were constantly copied by other sites. I can't think of any site that exists now that everyone copies as much as copying is the clearest sign that it works and is a great idea.

I love sites(of the type being discussed) that have a torrent site kind of style.like only basic details of the post like size,genre,group, etc. and no extra info AT ALL,for this i liked the design of mukki because it was original.it has been copied many a time since.

PS:we are talking design of the site and the sites quality.(before the mods infract me)

Exact same thread exists here, the only difference is that one doesn't cater warez only.

Nowdays I use both rlslog and oneddl. I nominated oneddl because of its new template. RLSlog has that design for over 2 years. Everyone needs a change.

Katz did a great job, but its gone now. Katz never cared about the webmasters. The downloaders/end-users were happy and Katz was receiving and sending insane amounts of traffic. It wasn't important if they had 1 copy of -application-or-game- or 1000 as long as the users were getting real, valid copy & crack. (Actually, its better if only 1 site has copy of -application-or-game- because that way the site submitting will get more traffic). Webmasters had to follow their rules unless they were SEO experts and managed to get good organic traffic.

IMO Katz(ddl) is a great system that makes everybody happy. DDL sites generate sales, submitters get traffic and their uploaders make profit from their uploads - not cool , yet it encouraged everyone to start uploading.

Another site from the past that have left me a great memory is Crazy-Coderz. The last version before it went in the dust was 7 or 8 I don't remember.. It had great design and even better community and I know how hard is to develop community on a warez forum.

They are all dead now and I guess you're right. There are very few sites that can be putted aside and I can say okay, those are the websites I want to visit daily.