Oink what? its no longer active....
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Oink what? its no longer active....
Demonoid maybe..
Im sure theres a handful of trackers , Public ,Semi-Private and Private that have been around over 5 years. Probably wouldnt be able to use all your fingers counting them .
It just amazes me how fast the years go by when your having fun . As I said 6 years is as far as we can recall.Its been up and down , good and bad.ATM I'm real happy where the site is , the staff the membership its all fantastic . But thats me I'm alittle bias. :lol:
Someone mentioned Pedro. Did you mean Padro ? Chronic Tracker ? Padro had a split with the then owner when we went down briefly following ET's demise. He set up what was meant to be a temporary tracker, but having fallen out with Verve, his tracker remained. Some of the FT staff went with him, some stayed temporarily and came back to FT.
For a brief time after that there was a blossoming of small trackers, some born of Elite members, some ex-FT, some from elsewhere, and a lot of the FT staff staffed on many of these too. There was a group of friendly trackers who visited each others' sites, and so it didn't matter that we were all small, there was a bit for everyone in one of the group of trackers. We had (and FT still has) a community section in our forums where we talked to each other. Sadly, most of these trackers have died but FT will never die !
We lost one of our part-owners very recently to cancer, and it has been a sad time, but three of us remain, and we have a strong veteran staff too, with a core of faithful members.
I am pleased to see that Chronic Tracker (The Heart of Chronic) is still on the go, and so could also be counted among the veteran trackers. Unfortunately I let my account be disabled there when my health was not so good, but even after a heart attack I had my granddaughters keep me in touch with Fatal ! That's how much the site means to all of us !
That was a good read thanks guys! Nice to know places like that exist, I missed the sign ups maybe next time though :)
how old is this tracker ?
LinkoManija is 7 yo...
@Fishy02 - you can join the forums at http://www.fataltracker.net/ and after a few posts maybe someone will give you a tracker invite.....
@Swift - approx 6 years
@B3owulf - If that is so, Linkomania would be older than Fatal Tracker by about a year.
The only person who could really confirm Fatal Tracker's age would be the original owner, Verve, or one of his colleagues of the time.....
I think the point was that there were few trackers that old still alive today. It's rare for communities to survive that long. Even Firefox browser didn't exist back then ! (I used Netscape).
The protocol was invented in late 2002 by Bram Cohen, as some will remember. Its use developped in 2003 and soon became adopted by file sharers. By the early part of 2004, it was becoming widely used by file sharers, and sites were springing up all over the world.
Encryption was developped mostly in 2006, the first being Bit Comet in late 2005 (PHE = Protocol header encryption) and then Azureus developped MSE (message stream encryption). Then Azureus and uTorrent got together and finalised PE = Protocol Encryption which is still used today.
So, really, you are not going to get BT sites older than 7 years, and very few that old.
There is a new type of Bit Torrent being developped atm by a French-Canadian torrent site that looks very exciting - TorrentSoap. If you are francophone, you can read about it here : http://www.journaldupirate.com/?p=3172 and here : http://www.torrentsoap.com/
The site, still running classic BT atm is : http://www.torrentqc.com
It will be, they promise, a decentralised p2p application based on Bit Torrent but tracker-less and encrypted.
Why didn't you guys adapt to the new stuff added on trackers ?
@ Swift
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Why didn't you guys adapt to the new stuff added on trackers ?
What I didn't mention above was DHT - a really big threat to private trackers, but most trackers nowadays detect and block or ban users using it. The concept of distributed database is laudable, and certainly in the intentions of Bram in that it made Bit Torrent even more efficient, but the publishing of all the peers on a torrent to all and sundry was not exactly what private trackers were about !
However, I don't see what you mean by 'the new stuff added on trackers.'
If it's security, we use the latest scripts. If it's Bitsoap, well that's still under development, and I'm watching TQC to see how they implement it, if and when they do. The idea of trackerless Bit Torrent has been around for a while and various programmers have been looking at it. You still need the site, but the site only has a highly encrypted database and having made an encrypted torrent link on demand, does not store it anywhere on its server longer than a few minutes, so no records to reveal users activity on the server.
This would be ideal for small private trackers and for huge indexing sites both, of course.
What sets Bit Torrent apart from other file-sharing protocols such as Limewire and Bearshare is the central control over torrents, and therefore the ability to control content and ban malicious users from the tracker, making it a much safer proposition. How this would work with the new ideas in BitSoap I would like to see, because as soon as it becomes uncontrolled and no longer censorable, it opens the door for these evil beggars that like to trick you into downloadning all sorts of malware.