Scenelife forever in our hearts

Dear Scenelife Members

As you know things haven't been going well lately and we apologize for that. But we would like to say that there is an explanation for everything that has happened in the past months.

In the past 7 months – ScL’s owner and coder SScript has been really inactive. He has been even less active than he was before, which basically means he has been spending approximately an hour a week on the site. He has also been leaving for many weeks without letting any other staffers know, leaving the site on its own and constantly forgetting to pay the server costs (which I'm sure you all noticed since the site constantly went down at the start of each month). SScript was never a good owner. Coding issues that were supposed to be dealt with almost 11 months ago are still not done, and yet he was too arrogant to give direct access to other coders so they could help us out.

In the past year the site has basically been ran by it's mods and admins paying the server costs from their own pocket. And if it wasn't for staff members like pedrowsky, MSO, HL, aquirre, ViperMM, scrappen and winnie - the site would have died a long time ago. Of course we also have to mention KS, z7x, nbf, bananafurry and all other ex-staffers when talking about this in general - though the names we mentioned in the first sentence are the people who have had the most influence in the past year.

Around 4 months ago ScL went down for a long period because the owner SScript had issues paying for the server. He claims that he had paypal problems. The other staffers – supportive as always wanted to help him to get ScL back up and perhaps ask you guys to donate a little extra so he can keep running the site. But SScript didn’t have a recent copy of ScLs code and DB (His last copy was 8 months old!). Yes we know – The owner and coder of ScL doesn’t have a copy of his own site? As crazy as it sounds – It’s the truth, so now you can understand why we call him a bad owner. After this we really understood how little he cared about the site – so we decided not to support him anymore.

Anyway after weeks of hard work – MSO managed to find a 2 month old copy of the ScL and then host it on aquirres server. This copy – as everyone noticed didn’t have the torrents backed up, so therefore ScL came back up with 0 torrents.
We have been trying for months to find a way to get our torrents back and trust us – if there was a way to do it, it would have been done a long time ago. This is one of the main reasons why we didn’t give out any info to our members – We simply hoped that we could get our torrents back and that everything could go back to normal. Other reasons for us giving you guys information about the sites status this late was that SScript removed the domain (scenelife.com) since he realized that we are against him now. And as mentioned earlier, we were really far behind on the coding front – so we simply didn’t have a function to mass email our users. However – thanks to mrstonedone (who is actually not a site coder, but an IRC coder) we managed to make a function like this to finally inform you guys about what’s going on.

So what happens now? As tragic and sad as it may be – It’s time for ScL to shut down. We were blessed with the finest community the BT world has ever known and there is no doubt that our members will forever be in our hearts. There is no other tracker and there never will be a tracker with a community as strong and warm as the one ScL had.
But there is still some hope left: ScL will never come back, no. But – The Scenelife Crew is working on a new promising project and would like to welcome our active and loyal members to join us. This tracker is going to be a magnificent tracker – including a reckless design, a magnificent community, and the one thing ScL always missed – LOTS OF TORRENTS. We’ve got sponsors for this project and we got a really nice budget to work our way around. More info about this project will be given later.
Last but not least – We would like to say that our time as staffers on this tracker has been great and we’ve had a lot of fun serving this community. Even though we’ve had our ups and downs, it has been a pleasure to be staffers of a community this amazing. We will surely miss our fine members and we would like to wish you the best of luck in life.
And PS: The forums will be up until further notice.

Take care,

yeh this email came yesterday,but the good thing is,scl staff is workin on a new better tracker by the looks :D

/me waits for "ex-ScLer looking for a new place" request threads :P

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/me waits for "ex-ScLer looking for a new place" request threads :P

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Back on Topic,

It's sad to see that yet another tracker has died, but the good thing is that staff members are working on a new and better site as you said. Let's see if this is true because I wasn't very active at ScL for many reasons (not only torrents, but too much downtime, etc). I will keep on waiting and I'm eager to see what the new site is going to be like. :)

Best wishes for the ex-staff members of ScL. I would like to thank you guys for everything. :)

Have SCL invite!
PM me offer !

Looking to trade ScL account for something PM me! Such a good buffer you could download every torrent on the site and still have a ratio over 10.0!

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Looking to trade ScL account for something PM me! Such a good buffer you could download every torrent on the site and still have a ratio over 10.0!

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Who cares, all the torrents are freeleech now :shifty:

But seriously, it's really bad to loose another decent torrent site with few years of history and such a beautiful design and friendly folks. I almost stopped using it after I got invited to ScT (ouch), but I'll be definitely looking forward to the new site they are working on.

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Looking to trade ScL account for something PM me! Such a good buffer you could download every torrent on the site and still have a ratio over 10.0!

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Who cares, all the torrents are freeleech now :shifty:

But seriously, it's really bad to loose another decent torrent site with few years of history and such a beautiful design and friendly folks. I almost stopped using it after I got invited to ScT (ouch), but I'll be definitely looking forward to the new site they are working on.

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ScL > ScT imo
But I have seen the falling of ScL over it's time, and it's death was not much of a surprise. Hopefully the new site is just as good as ScL was back in the old days. :)

AsianDVDClub had created a program a little while ago that scanned users' hard drives for missing .torrent files, and then it would upload any that it found back to the site, where staff would have to re-add it. It was a great idea, and it worked, recovering ~4200 torrents. Maybe more sites that hit trouble could adopt such a method.

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AsianDVDClub had created a program a little while ago that scanned users' hard drives for missing .torrent files, and then it would upload any that it found back to the site, where staff would have to re-add it. It was a great idea, and it worked, recovering ~4200 torrents. Maybe more sites that hit trouble could adopt such a method.

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Well depends how people download I guess, me I download .torrent in folder, add to client and delete.

haha I totally called this. SCL was dead years ago; a new front and a new name might bring this tracker some new life.

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Originally Posted by PancakeWaffles

ScL > ScT imo

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Crazy talk.

they failed so hard in the first place...this is an example to the rest of new supersecret wannabe trackers

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they failed so hard in the first place...this is an example to the rest of new supersecret wannabe trackers

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No, when they were newer they kicked ScT's ass, they were the best tracker, but did not last to long, and they slowly became worse and worse.

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No, when they were newer they kicked ScT's ass, they were the best tracker, but did not last to long, and they slowly became worse and worse.

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Not to beat a dead horse or anything, but that's still not true. Perhaps people assumed that it was better because of the amazing amount of effort you needed to put in, in order to get in. However, it was nothing special.

The bigger joke was the fact that the Sys-Ops sold their uploaders axx. Instead of reeling in professional uploaders, they just brought in people with enough money for a line. Great, is it not? It's one of the old bt archaic examples of why P2P truly WAS a risk to the scene. :)

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they failed so hard in the first place...this is an example to the rest of new supersecret wannabe trackers

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No, when they were newer they kicked ScT's ass, they were the best tracker, but did not last to long, and they slowly became worse and worse.

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:noes: Not at all. It was never even near what ScT accomplished.
One will go as a legend, and another one will soon be forgotten.

Damn, that sux, always hate to see a tracker go down! I joined there once, but it wasn't active at the time, and I let the acc fade away. At least this closing has nothing to do with the police or anti-piracy groups. From going on only what I just read, I too would have to agree that the owner was bunk. But at least the good staff comes out with a complete explanation of what exactly happened. As these days more & more trackers shut down with basically zero explanation or info. So props to the good staff for sharing the truth, and it looks like they gave a lot of money and time to that place. :-/

There's only blood and stuff like that in my heart but OK.

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The bigger joke was the fact that the Sys-Ops sold their uploaders axx.

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most scene sites do that, i think.

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The bigger joke was the fact that the Sys-Ops sold their uploaders axx.

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most scene sites do that, i think.

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Not really. A lot of scene trackers ask for uploaders with their own lines/hook-ups, as well as have their own auto-up bot. Selling axx to your uploaders is asking for trouble. Look at trackers like ScT/SCC/GFT even TorrentVault, they all don't need to sell it to their uploaders; their uploaders know their way around, and upload out of their pockets/good will.

EDIT: Of course in SCC's case, a five minute conversation with SpX and 200-300$ a month for a line/p2l pass will get you the same uploader result, but as far as I know, most of the current uploaders didn't opt for it that way and had their own setup already going.

Yea go and enjoy their new tracker scenexpress | net
Stolen borders from scl's design, they are also using some of scl's functions. Almost half of those news is not true, that's what happens when you trust some staffers.
Yes, we had lack of donations, and again when it was too late to pay for the server we lost our server and there was no way to get backups again. It's too hard to start the site from a zero when staff decides to make another project and there is almost no one left. Even when I told aquirre to turn off the site from her server she just disabled owner's acc and posted these news. Also it is hard to say that it was nothing to do with a police, there are too some personal reasons of closing the site too and I guess after reading this topic you do know enough reasons...

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Yea go and enjoy their new tracker scenexpress | net

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Powered by ScTBDev, I thought it wasn't released, yet.

Anyways, ss thanks for at least being honest, you won't be at the reincarnation, I suppose? Well have fun with whatever you do, and don't forget, you take the good with the bad. The bad right now just makes it seem like no good came out of it, but a lot did. The laughs, the gratitude from the members, and the nostalgia that you'll eventually have, looking back at ScL. Just be happy it ended this way, lots of other places have died under worse conditions. Take OiNK/ET for example.

Good luck with whatever you do next. :)

i got the email but still no torrents there

How are old members getting back in then? My username/pass doesn't work, and I haven't received an email... presuming I was disabled for inactivity from ScL....

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The "login" bar is that of ScT?

and if the abbreviation of SceneXpress is SeX I lol'd so hard...

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Nope not disabled...

i'll trade FTN+FSC for buffered sex.

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How are old members getting back in then? My username/pass doesn't work, and I haven't received an email... presuming I was disabled for inactivity from ScL....

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I wasn't disabled (either), and the only e-mail I've received was the one with their IP.

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and if the abbreviation of SceneXpress is SeX I lol'd so hard...

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Could be SxP if necessary. :P TorrentIt's was TiT :lol:

Sad, but hardly a shock. They were offline for long periods.

me either..and i can't seem to log in..haven't got an email from them either

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me either..and i can't seem to log in..haven't got an email from them either

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same here. Is it a SCAM to steal our passwords ? :O

O NOEZ MY ScL pass! O WELL!

I really hope everyone uses unique passwords on every site they join, it's just good security.

So sad to see it go :(

at least ScL is my first private tracker, and my first site i become uploader (Sniper)

maybe thats why i will remember ScL :)

RIP ScL.. :(

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me either..and i can't seem to log in..haven't got an email from them either

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same here. Is it a SCAM to steal our passwords ? :O

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don't worry we aren't like some sites out there..:yup:

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So sad to see it go :(

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Even with all its previous shortcomings, I still had fond feelings for SCL.
I guess it was because, it was my first major PT.
RIP SCL

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Originally Posted by HDBits

at least ScL is my first private tracker, and my first site i become uploader (Sniper)

maybe thats why i will remember ScL :)

RIP ScL.. :(

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correction.. my first 'elite' PT :P

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my first 'elite' PT :P

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Glad you put "elite" between quotes :lol:

NEW ScL is here with 15k torrents

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NEW ScL is here

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Where, where!? :w00t:

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THE X: Invite from ScL Staff
Dear member!
You are one of approximately 600 ScL users whom we want to invite to our site. You should feel proud. We've selected our most loyal, active and trusted members.
Enjoy the new site!
SceneXpress Crew

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Stats atm:

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Members Information:

Registered Users: 96/15000
Users Online: 13
Unconfirmed Users: 449
Donors: 2

Tracker Information:

Forum Topics: 105
Torrents: 15625
Forum Posts: 268
New Torrents Today: 15625
Peers: 15684
Unconnectable Peers: 17
Seeders: 15631
Unconnectables Ratio: 0
Leechers: 53
Seeder / Leecher Ratio: 29492
Utility Workers: 75
Ticket Clerks:
Signalmen:
Switchmen:
Firemen:
Brakemen:
Flagmen:
Stewards:
VIPs:

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No such e-mail here. I guess I'm not special :(

I guess they got the trusted stuff wrong :P
atleast in your case