Goodness Gracious Me - TehConnection Looks Awesome

**stoi** · 01-22-2009, 04:35 PM

Originally Posted by dalima

it looks promising. just 2 things:

1. the ppl behind the site are really slow workers. whatever the reasons are.. development needs to be fast. what.cd did an excellent job at the time for example.

2. i question whether a movie tracker can become a huge success comparable to what/waffles. many movies will have only 1 seed.. which is very little for 700mb+ files. a lot is gonna depend on people having big HD's and fast connections to have a huge choice of movies and have decent speeds. i also feel that movies don't have the "keeping value" that music albums have (if you know what i mean). when i download an album that i like i keep it.. but when i saw a movie i download it has to be really great for me to keep it. tc and ptp are gonna stumble on these problems.

But then you can say the same about games, 4 gig average some 8 gig and we do OK with retention, actually we do bloody great with retention, 2 years and still over 150 seeds on some things. and this is for games that are not for the PC so no need to keep them at all, on the PC.

so it is not impossible to do whatever the size of the content.

**dalima** · 01-22-2009, 04:46 PM

Originally Posted by stoi

Originally Posted by dalima

it looks promising. just 2 things:

1. the ppl behind the site are really slow workers. whatever the reasons are.. development needs to be fast. what.cd did an excellent job at the time for example.

2. i question whether a movie tracker can become a huge success comparable to what/waffles. many movies will have only 1 seed.. which is very little for 700mb+ files. a lot is gonna depend on people having big HD's and fast connections to have a huge choice of movies and have decent speeds. i also feel that movies don't have the "keeping value" that music albums have (if you know what i mean). when i download an album that i like i keep it.. but when i saw a movie i download it has to be really great for me to keep it. tc and ptp are gonna stumble on these problems.

But then you can say the same about games, 4 gig average some 8 gig and we do OK with retention, actually we do bloody great with retention, 2 years and still over 150 seeds on some things. and this is for games that are not for the PC so no need to keep them at all, on the PC.

so it is not impossible to do whatever the size of the content.

i'm not on BCG so i'll take your word for it. im assuming tho that you're talking about mainly populair games. i'm not worried that The Godfather and The Matrix won't be seeded for years.. i'm worried about the less popular ones. it's gonna be really hard to keep a huge database of movies well seeded.

**Rigel9** · 01-22-2009, 04:59 PM

Originally Posted by dalima

2. i question whether a movie tracker can become a huge success comparable to what/waffles. many movies will have only 1 seed.. which is very little for 700mb+ files. a lot is gonna depend on people having big HD's and fast connections to have a huge choice of movies and have decent speeds. i also feel that movies don't have the "keeping value" that music albums have (if you know what i mean). when i download an album that i like i keep it.. but when i saw a movie i download it has to be really great for me to keep it. tc and ptp are gonna stumble on these problems.

This works pretty good on Karagara for example.

**cinephilia** · 01-22-2009, 05:00 PM

Originally Posted by Unstable1

Originally Posted by cinephilia

as the title say, tehconnection looks awesome with gazelle but unfortunately, it is not

It's still a young tracker - give it time.

tehconnection has been created something like 10 months ago and there's only 1600 torrents for 8500 users... make your own conclusion.

Originally Posted by Wi0

haha. You think we're done ? This is practically our beta launch, that's why no e-mails have been sent. Stay tuned...

i meant tehconnection seems great thanks to gazelle but actually, it's a ordinary tracker.

**stoi** · 01-22-2009, 05:12 PM

Originally Posted by dalima

Originally Posted by stoi

But then you can say the same about games, 4 gig average some 8 gig and we do OK with retention, actually we do bloody great with retention, 2 years and still over 150 seeds on some things. and this is for games that are not for the PC so no need to keep them at all, on the PC.

so it is not impossible to do whatever the size of the content.

i'm not on BCG so i'll take your word for it. im assuming tho that you're talking about mainly populair games. i'm not worried that The Godfather and The Matrix won't be seeded for years.. i'm worried about the less popular ones. it's gonna be really hard to keep a huge database of movies well seeded.

I know this is about TC but it can be done, we do recycle torrents so the oldest torrent on the tracker, is not really the oldest on the tracker.

but the oldest is a NDS game that is 7.62meg in size was uploaded 2007-06-13 21:08:35 Dr Kawashimas Brain Training - How Old Is Your Brain

our oldest big game is a PS2 game that is 3.36gig Bujingai The Forsaken City USA PS2DVD-PROTOCOL and that has 5 seeders (no idea how fast it will go though a there is no leechers on it) 2007-07-17 12:06:13

But our oldest game is Gears of War been on the tracker since December 2006, and has been recyled twice in that time.

So just because the torrents are big, does not mean they die easily.

Good luck to them.

**danio** · 01-22-2009, 05:19 PM

Originally Posted by cinephilia

tehconnection has been created something like 10 months ago and there's only 1600 torrents for 8500 users... make your own conclusion.

i don't think it's fair to judge the tracker the way you just did. my guess is that alot of people (me included) have been waiting for the transition to gazelle to happen ever since they first announced it (in september i think?), and hence haven't used my account at all in the meantime. i felt that i'll just hang around and see how the site seems like once the switch to gazelle is done..

why do i think i wasn't one of a few that thought like this? first of all, there was no further development of the old site at all, and the only announcements was regarding the coding of gazelle. i think this is something that could have caused alot of people to lose interest in the current site as it felt kinda dead.. sure, it was just like this at what.cd back when they were creating gazelle aswell. but the difference here is that TC also disabled the forums in preparation for the transition (pretty early aswell, and a mistake if you ask me :/). this made atleast me think that the old site was abandoned and the new one was just around the corner.

last of all, you can see now that half the userbase has been disabled due to inactivity, and only half of the remaining users have been active since the new site went public. i think this strenghtens my theory that most users lost interest and waited for the new site, but yet haven't noticed that it's here.

so to me, TC started "half-fresh" just now, and the following few months will tell if it is the next great thing, or if you were right

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