Not again...The RevTT vs TL faceoff round 2

Since the last thread comparing RevTT and TL was 8 months ago, http://filesharingtalk.com/vb3/f-bit...l-revtt-310101, I wanted to do another comparison thread, comparing the 2 sites and seeing if anything has changes in the months since then.

What I have gathered from the old thread is that TL is the overwhelming favorite, but that both are very equal in quality with differences. Some posts have said RevTT has a nicer site and a better forum community. Others like the request feature on RevTT. Others talk about large number of files on TL and the better retention, or more seeders on older torrents in TL.

What has changed since then on both sites? Is TL still the overwhelming favorite?


Faceoff Results (5/17/09)
After tallying up all the votes RevTT pulled the upset and won round 2 of the RevTT TL faceoff.
The dark horse IPT, without even being entered as a faceoff contestant itself pulled off a respectable 4 votes.
Total count:
1st place RevTT= 11 votes
2nd place TL= 6 votes
dark horse IPT= 4votes

The reasons given for each vote are:
TL
Two people noted the pretimes for TL.
Also noted were the torrent packs,
availability of non scene torrents,
and easy ability to seed back (2 votes).
RevTT
Four people gave safety as their reason for choosing RevTT over TL, as the lower user count and SSL had them feeling more secure.
Also noted were the ease of seeding,
file retention,
more files available,
the request system,
the better design of the site,
and the better forums.

Some posts from the previous thread.

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Originally Posted by hotshot6473

TL literally has everything I could throw at it and thats what makes it a little bit better. RevTT is good and has a really nice design but once you have TL or higher quality sites it becomes kinda obselite.

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Originally Posted by yakz091

well tl is lot better in revtt in terms of collection of apps but revtt is having that 1500 extra torrents bcoz of xxx section in tl there is no xxx section it leads pt.org site.

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Originally Posted by Grind$oFine

RevTT has a great deal of rare files that are not available on TL, but that may be of no use to you.

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Originally Posted by Biter

The feature of RevTT is the request section.

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Originally Posted by Funkin'

I don't feel comfortable downloading from TL, so I rarely use my account anymore. But I would use RevTT more anyway. It's a smaller userbase, their pre's are faster(not that I care really), and the speeds are pretty good. Personally though, I think IPT is better than either of these two, and gets used most out of any other tracker that I have.

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TL is so much better....not even a discussion.

The pretimes 8 months ago were not even good as they are currently.

TL - 150k users .. anyone can get into TL even RIAA and MPAA

RevTT - 44k users .. pretty decent imo


i prefer revtt and IPT more

TL as a tracker has grown over the past few months, they have excellent pre times AS WELL as having great packs, and non scene encodes which are nice. This makes it appealing to a huge number of people, and seeding back is easy too, it seems TL is the perfect site for the above-average bittorrent user.

RevTT for me all the time just a nice site with good retention, couldnt give a fuck about pretimes and its really easy to seed at revtt. But to be honest i say revtt but all these oday general trackers are pretty much the same for me these days.

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Originally Posted by VinX

TL - 150k users .. anyone can get into TL even RIAA and MPAA

RevTT - 44k users .. pretty decent imo


i prefer revtt and IPT more

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This sums it up for me too. IPT has over twice the content of both sites, and I feel safer downloading from RevTT than TL.

also RevTT has SSL which is more secure than TL and IPT .. so imo RevTT is da best :) also if i need stuff very fast , i prefer ScT or SCC .. :)

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Originally Posted by iam1337

TL is so much better....not even a discussion.

The pretimes 8 months ago were not even good as they are currently.

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honestly, who gives a fuck to pretimes ?

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Originally Posted by Villalltheway

RevTT for me all the time just a nice site with good retention

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good point. revtt has a better retention than TL and even more files (last time i check, revtt had ~24.000 torrents)
speeds are more than enough for anyone's needs and you can find many old scene releases. the request section is also pretty active and many requests are filled.

so in my opinion, Revtt is better than TL (except for packs).

I prefer TL. Speeds can be average at times, but the large userbase makes it easy to seed. I let my RevTT expire because I never found the need to keep it.

How do i get into IPT?