Why do people keep launching 0day sites?

[The_Martinator]

Quite honestly there's a bunch of 0day trackers already, but I guess it's also the easiest type of tracker to launch.

What I'd like to see is more TV trackers. A little competition there could do wonders, imo.

PS: I'm not saying they have to be no ratio.

[Wwwildthing]

Trackers are sort of like linux distros. If all the people creating new distros got together they could make an incredible operating system.

Over 1,000 new trackers have come online this year to date... 25 were added in June... about 90% of them are private.

[Roooney]

Trackers are sort of like linux distros. If all the people creating new distros got together they could make an incredible operating system.

Over 1,000 new trackers have come online this year to date... 25 were added in June... about 90% of them are private.

source?

[soulreaper]

I don't know the first thing about running a tracker but I suspect making a tracker for niche content(like comics/humour) would be much harder than making a 0day site.

[MadIrish]

I don't know the first thing about running a tracker but I suspect making a tracker for niche content(like comics/humour) would be much harder than making a 0day site.

I'm not so sure about that. To do it properly and "compete" with the established sites, a new 0-day site will have to have a lot going for it from the start - good quantity of uploads from fast servers, decent axx and pre-times, good security & coding, a good site design etc, and increasingly some sort of catch to set them apart such as no-ratio (not that that really sets anyone apart but the point stands). Then they've got to get a userbase that's actually dedicated to the site, uses it responsibly, and most importantly chooses to use it over others with the same content they have access to. That seems like a pretty difficult task to me, for every successful new 0-day site there seems to be many more that fail.

With a niche tracker one would hope that those involved in its startup would already have a decent library of content to put up on it initially. Members they attract are more likely to buy into its concept, either there won't be many alternatives out there or those alternatives will be hard to access etc. Depending on the type of content it might not be so necessary to have a ton of upload servers; generally speed and pre-times etc are nowhere near as important so they will not suffer so badly in comparission with others. They should also be able to build up a much more natural community too, given that everyone should have something in common, be it love of comedy, comics or whatever.

Setting up a niche tracker would seem to me to require a bit more vision and a lot more genuine care for the content from its founders and initial members, but making a genuine success of one if those are both present would seem to me to be much more achievable in the end.