R.I.P. what.cd

[Tokeman]

The xanax site is having open signups again for very short periods it seems. Hang out in their irc and you get notified.

Not done this so cant confirm if it is true but it appears on reddit so still cant confirm if true.

If only I weren't so lazy...

[mjmacky]

[bozboy]

NotWhat.CD Week #One Update 5 hours and 46 mins ago
"I began revolution with 82 men. If I had to do it again, I'd do it with 10 or 15 and absolute faith. It does not matter how small you are if you have faith and plan of action."

Good day comrades and welcome to Week #One at NotWhat.CD

What a wonderful time to be alive! Over 1,000 users and 5,000 torrents!

First and foremost I want to thank each and every one of our community members and staff for their optimism, patience and dedication. This is your home as much as it is mine and we are making it a wonderful place with a tight-knit community. Before we delve into our site's updates and our site's future it will be best to clear up the disinformation going around.

1. We are in no way, shape or form related to or involved with nostream.co or nostre.am.
2. Our staff members and userbase is comprised entirely of former what.cd members, elites, torrent masters, interviewers, beta team, staff and other tracker staff.
3. We have absolutely no affiliation with 4chan, 8chan, or any other chan, forum or public website.
4. NotWhat.CD uses CloudFlare as an endpoint for our reverse proxies just like nearly every other tracker which explains why our IP Block is similar to most other tracker sites (pth, apl, nos, etc). We are NOT hosted in the same facility as any one of these trackers.



At NotWhat.CD we do not see other music trackers as competition. To the contrary we have been working with several other trackers in effort to unite the community on several fronts including development, security and new features.

For example, our latest update integrating logchecker.php has been a combined effort between our staff and the staff at libble.me, a well known, respected tracker.
I want to personally thank libble.me and their staff for providing the new age of music trackers source code for a well-tested logchecker.php.
Without their help none of the new trackers would have a functional log checker and I think it's a disservice to the entire community to not give credit where credit is due.

Site Updates:
Week One Update#1. Functional Log Checker
Our 'Perfect FLAC' stats will be updated every hour on the hour.
Log Checker Issues:
1a. Viewing log files on site has not been implemented yet.
1b. Attaching missing log files to existing torrents has not been implemented yet.

Week One Update#2. IRC Services
We have implemented NickServ, ChanServ and our Gazelle Bot - Che.
NickServ allows authentication with a X.509 certificate with the CERT Command.
Users can gain access to member-only channels with "/msg che enter #notwhat site-user irckey".
Please make sure your site password, NickServ password and IRCKey are all different.

Week One Update#3. Proper SSL Tracker
Many of you helped diagnose the issues with our reverse ssl proxy to the ocelot tracker.
We have since debugged this issue and resolved it with the proper reverse proxy settings.
We will continue to use the http tracker by default until further notice.

Site Development:
Week One Dev#1. Two-Factor Authentication
We are working on an optional Two-Factor Authentication process for Gazelle whereby users will be sent a secondary code
to their smartphone app such as google authenticate, authy or freeotp necessary to login to the site.

Week One Dev#2. FLAC Automagic Uploader
In beta testing we have a FLAC uploading tool that runs through your music directory and uploads them to NotWhat.CD through
a command line interface. Currently this tool is linux only while we are working on a Windows version that will be released at the same time.

Week One Dev#3. NotWhat.CD Secure Image Host


Week One Dev#4. NotWhat.CD Android App

At this time I would like to officially announce our staff team.
1. Evilwalks, a well-known tracker celebrity is our first Site Administrator tasked with running the site day in and day out.
2. Shax, a former what.cd Power Torrent Master is our first Forum Administrator tasked with managing our forums and community.
3. MrHudson, a former what.cd Torrent Master who is our first Torrent Administrator tasked with overseeing the release information.
4. Nussknacker, a talented developer and former tracker staff will lead our Community Dev Team undertaking some of our upcoming features.

Participating in any music tracker is a daunting, time-consuming task and I would really like to thank these individuals for stepping up
and taking on the ultimate task of rebuilding what was lost in positions of leadership that require dedication, love and faith in our endeavor

Rules & Trumping:
1. V0 will now trump V2 in most circumstances.
2. Do NOT trump existing FLAC torrents without logs as we are working to add the logs retroactively.

Thank you all again for a wonderful start, through out the next 24 hours we will be issuing freeleech for userpick and staffpicks.
Stay tuned for more information as the day progresses!

~fidelflacstro

[Skiz]

[robogo25]

https://apollo.rip/index.php

Update 8 49 mins ago Hide
Hi everyone,

Here's a quick update:
We've reached 240,000 torrents, 82,000 perfect FLACs and 1,400,000 peers! That's more than 60,000 torrents and 30,000 perfect FLACs in 2 days. Incredible job everyone! you are continuing to amaze us We will be extending global freeleech and make another community challenge if we reach 100,000 perfect FLAC's by today's deadline (23:59 UTC). In addition, the top perfect FLAC uploaders will receive a special gift

A few more site updates:
Logchecker - You can now upload missing log files for your snatched torrents logchecker.php?action=snatched
View Log - We have added a log viewer, you can now view log and score for torrents with log
Bug fix - Filename limit error has been fixed
Teams recruitment - We have received over 150 applications, thank you, everyone who applied, we will get back to you asap
Donate - You can now donate to Apollo and help us pay the site's bills

Thank you for your efforts and support!

//Apollo Staff

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Stats

Maximum users: 40,000
Enabled users: 25,681 Details
Users active today: 12,606 (49.09%)
Users active this week: 19,995 (77.86%)
Users active this month: 25,576 (99.59%)
Torrents: 240,241
Releases: 119,189
Artists: 114,296
"Perfect" FLACs: 82,058
Requests: 1,360 (42.28% filled)
Snatches: 1,263,932
Peers: 1,457,963
Seeders: 1,377,393
Leechers: 80,570
Seeder/leecher ratio: 17.09

[IdolEyes787]

Since this is bt, do all the perfect FLACs spend much of their time looking down at all the FLACs who aren't perfect?

[anon]

NotWhat.CD: "Over 1,000 users and 5,000 torrents!"

Apollo: "We've reached 240,000 torrents"

TSOL is right, NotWhat may have missed the train. However, they claim to delete IP logs regularly and that's a pretty good thing.

[Funkin']

Since this is bt, do all the perfect FLACs spend much of their time looking down at all the FLACs who aren't perfect?

Yes.

Kind of how I look down upon you all.

[1000possibleclaws]

The elitism and paranoia of PTH reminds me of waffles.fm back in the day, and the openess and more practical and business-like structure of Apollo reflects What.cd much better. Ten years ago I have to admit I fell for the "its harder to get into waffles so it must be better" illusion, and it took me until what.cd pioneered Gazelle for me to understand the differences in their scopes and ambitions.

As for Apollo and PTH; one of these two sites will surely pull ahead of the other, and leave it rival in the dust. Although it's still very early, I think Apollo is well positioned to win this "war", if you may call it that.



Through gossip, I've heard reasons for PTH being closed is so that torrent masters can upload all their FLAC's without what.cd leechers (ie non album rippers) getting the credit. Their management is so retarded if that is actually a reason, and it's almost too ridiculous to believe. As devils advocate, the upside of remaining largely closed is that the upload process will be alot cleaner, and will require less moderation to fix up. However this also creates a huge disparity for all the new users that join a month of so after launch (lets call them 'plebs', or '2nd class members'), when PTH inevitably has to open its doors in order to stay competitive with Apollo. It will require much more effort for these users to get the uploads required to reach higher ranks, which is needed to be get sucked into being a driving force for their community. All the initial members who are already the paranoid screenshot-taking, seedbox using, FLAC ripping nutjobs, who would work to get the ranks regardless, have a huge leg up from all potential future power users. I just don't understand why you would want it to be like this from a management standpoint. It's illogical, the few benefits do not outweigh the damages.

[bonetee]

whatsup with the ultra elitiscm yo ?

appolo.rip already ftw ....

i was a member of oink ... great site ... then came what and waffles .. i was not a member a both ...usenet for music ftw .. no time to seed bro ... i am drunk ...

good job appolo ftw <3

i am not sure how many torrents in total what.cd had ?

this is a challenging stuff , to overcome what.cd ...

good job appolo.rip

fuck you cops ...