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You prefer rars because when rars are corrupted you can download them again? When the files are unrared before uploading there wouldn't be any corrupted archives in the first place. Think again.Quote:
Originally Posted by Burnsy
Files are rared because they're spread with multi-threaded FTP transfer within the scene. It has absolutely nothing to do with Bittorrent. The Bittorrent protocol splits every file in chunks anyway. Rared or not.
No.Quote:
Originally Posted by TraLaLa
This. Also I don't like the players that support it. Call me l33t if you will.Quote:
Originally Posted by Polarbear
There is no advantage of rar'ed over unrar'ed and vice versa, however, there are a bunch of myths. The bittorrent protocol already has inbuilt parts/pieces management, and checks for corruptions. Arguing that p2p is anything like scene necessitating rar'ed releases, is just turning a blind eye to the protocol's great developers. Upload/Download speed is only limited by the bandwidth and how overloaded your ports are. Given the fact that most torrent clients "thread" based on how many connections you allow, as opposed to how many files you are downloading; there is again, no advantage to either unrar'ed or rar'ed, since they both will be split up into relatively equal sized chunks (even the 14/50mb chunks are too big for most BT parts).
Back on-topic:
I actually like the new PTN a whole lot. I wouldn't say the new theme(s) is (are) necessarily the best thing that could have been designed, but at the same time they were a fresh breath. As I'm not a fan of extremely dark themes, I moved back to the bday theme, however, I still appreciate that bit of work. The new features are bloody awesome, though. I'm not a part of many trackers that care about the intricacies of movie information (similar movies/director page) as just happened here. Movie grouping on TBDev made me chuckle a little bit, too; I assume it uses an online movie db that would screw up should the db goes down? If so, I'd feel safer knowing there was some way to archive the pieces of the db necessary to keep the system together.
As I already mentioned once on their forums, I don't like inconsistencies; three different icon sets at work (browse page set, movie banner set, movie page download set) is just overkill, but I can understand not wanting to let someone's work go to waste, after developing the icons. I'd think no matter who the someone is, though, they'd feel they got paid much more respect by having a specific choice in peoples' profiles to choose their icon set to be the standard. I wouldn't mind expanding any icon sets myself, if necessary, to get a better more professional consistency across the pages.
Also, totally unrelated, n00bz0r: you staff on there? :O
PTN is going boing boing!! :happy:.Its always really nice to see dedicated staff improving a site.
Admin :DQuote:
Originally Posted by ringhunter
What he said. :yup:Quote:
Originally Posted by ringhunter
RARed releases are very slighly bigger than their non-RARed counterparts due to the RAR headers, though, but the increase is negligible (we're talking about <1kB/part). And there is no space gain, since Scene RARs are uncompressed.
On a personal level, I prefer non-RARed stuff, since I don't have to bother to unpack it after it's done downloading.
Is there an option to park my account ? i will leave the country next week, some accounts will die some will be deleted, what a drama :lol:
Yes, it does happen on occasion that Scene Releases are upped to sites and when downloaded one of the rar files is corrupted... never happened to you? No?Quote:
Originally Posted by Polarbear
In instances like that, it's easy enough to use the .sfv file to see which one is corrupt and then grab that part from somewhere else... I'm afraid I won;t think again, I'm happy doing what I'm doing, thanks all the same :)
I'm fully aware of that, but thanks for the revision...Quote:
Originally Posted by Polarbear
wheres the drama in that,thats a pretty drama free question ur askin there :huh:Quote:
Originally Posted by TraLaLa
Of course it happens. That's why I prefer unrared content. No rars, no corrupted rars. You said that you prefer rars because it makes it easier to replace corrupted rars. That doesn't make any sense at all. You prefer a method to replace an error when the method itself is the reason for the error.Quote:
Originally Posted by Burnsy
Please, give me their IRC channel and server. I can`t find them now.