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Post subject: Re: What? Waffles? The BitTorrent thread
Posted: Sun November 27, 2016 9:15 pm
I Have A Third Nipple
Joined: Tue January 01, 2013 7:41 am Posts: 19694 Location: Cumberland, RI
Semi-professional opinion: PassTheHeadphones is probably where you want to be. If you're a power user or above on any active torrent site, keep checking their forums daily to see if there's going to be a recruitment drive. Otherwise, you're going to have to wait for people to get invites.
There are some other sites that have popped up in the past few days. Not sure about them yet. But Xanax/Apollo (I guess they're considering a name change?) seems to have a lot of technical difficulties and they may have screwed up their userbase. Time will tell.
man, losing what is rough... i've never been a part of any other private trackers, so it looks like i have very little chance of getting into one of these new ones...
i've been spoiled all these years going from oink to what...
also, sad to say, i don't remember who invited me to what all those years ago... it was one of the fine folks from here, that's for sure.
Post subject: Re: What? Waffles? The BitTorrent thread
Posted: Fri December 02, 2016 1:32 am
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Kept a decent ratio and am a bit distraught by this still. Most nights I'm here as a "guest" and then there to see what's available to cheer me up. I only wish I would have captured some version of the site for just a simple reference. For right or wrong, the current music industry has lost its best friend. RIP.
Post subject: Re: What? Waffles? The BitTorrent thread
Posted: Tue December 06, 2016 3:48 am
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Joined: Tue January 01, 2013 7:41 am Posts: 19694 Location: Cumberland, RI
The current most popular What replacements are having problems for various reasons. Either no one is downloading because downloading is so scarce (because most users already have large libraries) or no one is downloading anything "real" (i.e., there are freeleeches and people are just downloading/uploading junk to build ratio). Somebody's got to figure out how to create a healthy sharing economy while still having somewhat strict membership requirements to encourage quality uploads and curation; hasn't happened yet.
Can someone get me an invite to a site? I was a big what.cd user, invited alot of peeps here. I can also invite to waffles once there back up and running.
Post subject: Re: What? Waffles? The BitTorrent thread
Posted: Sat December 31, 2016 12:21 am
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Joined: Tue January 01, 2013 7:41 am Posts: 19694 Location: Cumberland, RI
CopperTom wrote:
Now that the dust has settled a bit, is there a successor?
A month or so after they've all popped up, I'd still say most of the new music trackers are having similar problems i.e. creating a healthy sharing economy. Unless you have oodles and oodles of content ready to upload, you'll probably just be jumping on freeleech torrents for a while to try and build up ratio on any tracker.
Now that the dust has settled a bit, is there a successor?
A month or so after they've all popped up, I'd still say most of the new music trackers are having similar problems i.e. creating a healthy sharing economy. Unless you have oodles and oodles of content ready to upload, you'll probably just be jumping on freeleech torrents for a while to try and build up ratio on any tracker.
And which tracker would that be?
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Post subject: Re: What? Waffles? The BitTorrent thread
Posted: Sat December 31, 2016 5:15 pm
I Have A Third Nipple
Joined: Tue January 01, 2013 7:41 am Posts: 19694 Location: Cumberland, RI
CopperTom wrote:
Simple Torture wrote:
CopperTom wrote:
Now that the dust has settled a bit, is there a successor?
A month or so after they've all popped up, I'd still say most of the new music trackers are having similar problems i.e. creating a healthy sharing economy. Unless you have oodles and oodles of content ready to upload, you'll probably just be jumping on freeleech torrents for a while to try and build up ratio on any tracker.
And which tracker would that be?
Both Apollo and PassTheHeadphones are fine. PTH seems to have a userbase more dedicated to quality, but that also means that most users have a big personal library from years on What and aren't downloading much. Apollo has had a few freeleech events and those have generated activity, but once they've ended things have gone dead.
For perspective: I have around 750 uploads on one tracker but only about 175 of them have been snatched at least one time. That never happened on What; I had over 1500 uploads and they were all snatched immediately.
Post subject: Re: What? Waffles? The BitTorrent thread
Posted: Sat December 31, 2016 7:45 pm
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Joined: Tue January 01, 2013 7:41 am Posts: 19694 Location: Cumberland, RI
Kevin Davis wrote:
Curious: When these trackers are working at optimal capacity, how many new albums on average, say, per month, do you guys download?
I'm estimating here using the number of albums I have in my digital music collection divided by the length of time I've been a member of private trackers (I think I joined Oink in late 2005, so I'm assuming 11 years); this, of course, may be an over-estimate, since this also counts albums I own that I've ripped. But the number I came up with is something like 35.
Post subject: Re: What? Waffles? The BitTorrent thread
Posted: Sat December 31, 2016 9:00 pm
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I just hope waffles is back soon. I used about 12 of my first 25 free leeches on PTH so I got 13 more when they reupped everyone to 25 again a few days ago. I uploaded maybe 10 albums that I had that weren't up there yet and only one of them has been snatched once.
Now that the dust has settled a bit, is there a successor?
A month or so after they've all popped up, I'd still say most of the new music trackers are having similar problems i.e. creating a healthy sharing economy. Unless you have oodles and oodles of content ready to upload, you'll probably just be jumping on freeleech torrents for a while to try and build up ratio on any tracker.
And which tracker would that be?
Both Apollo and PassTheHeadphones are fine. PTH seems to have a userbase more dedicated to quality, but that also means that most users have a big personal library from years on What and aren't downloading much. Apollo has had a few freeleech events and those have generated activity, but once they've ended things have gone dead.
For perspective: I have around 750 uploads on one tracker but only about 175 of them have been snatched at least one time. That never happened on What; I had over 1500 uploads and they were all snatched immediately.
If anyone has a spare invite to either, I'd appreciate it. I was a member of Oink, What, Waffles.
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