Due to the overwhelming number of posts and messages regarding this topic I’m posting this announcement.
The Comet ID servers went offline on Friday May 1st which corresponds with Labor day in China, so we are going to have to be patient until the development team returns from holidays to address this issue.
The good news is that this makes no difference in your ability to download torrents and even without cometID BitComet can still download as well as any other client.
During the outage you will not be able to connect to LTseed peers or find peers outside of the normal bittorrent swarm. In some rare cases this could prevent a torrent from downloading, but there is no need panicking over this and reinstalling the software won’t make a difference. This problem is very simple, remote servers that you connect to when you enable the optional cometID system assist your downloading by connecting you with peers that wouldn’t ordinary be available to users of the torrents. Unfortunately websites much like your personal computer sometimes crash and need to be maintained or even just restarted, but since BitComet is a free software and CometID is a free service that is maintained by volunteers, there are no resources to have staff on duty 24/7, so just be patient and the system you all enjoy will be back up and running as soon as time allows.
Our forum staff has already replied to dozens of topics to share this information yet we continue to get old topics dragged out of the archive from 4-5 years ago and new topics made asking the same questions over and over. As fellow bitcomet users you are responsible to seek answers in the forum and in the time it takes to post questions or necropost you could have had your questions answer by using the search function, so any new topics on this subject will be closed and any more old topics that get bumped upto the top where they clutter our forum will also get closed.
There is no need to panic, it’s as simple as a website being down and there is nothing that needs to be done, just continue downloading as usual. If you like you can try signing in once every day or so and you’ll discover the problem is resolved at some point.