http://www.bitcomet.com/index.htm
Chatting now ? Thats always a good sign as it allows the users to spread the word about fast moving events even if a forum is taken down along with a tracker.BitComet is a p2p file-sharing freeware fully compatible with Bittorrent, which is one of the most popular p2p protocol designed for high-speed distribution of 100MB or GB sized files. BitComet is a powerful, clean, fast, and easy-to-use bittorrent client. It supports simultaneous downloads, download queue, selected downloads in torrent package, fast-resume, chatting, disk cache, speed limits, port mapping, proxy, ip-filter, etc.
The more technical items here are way above my head, but I,m glad its still an ongoing project
Theres a small article here about its changes and improvements
http://www.slyck.com/news.php?story=761