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.