no way you've been there for two years, they've done the christmas bonus every year since they opened over 5 years ago. First few years was double upload only, last 2 or 3 was double upload, half-download.
as for comments about their top10 code being broken, IIRC, about 2 or 3 years ago some of the major uploaders threatened to stop uploading altogether because they wanted to remain anonymous, but their names were all in the top 10 list. Since it's a feature I don't think I've ever used on any torrent site, I'm not sure why that's an important feature. I don't even know that they have a professional coder on staff
anyway, the main issue that seems to be getting raised here is that the torrents there are too well seeded. As opposed to the majority of sites where the main complaint is that the torrents are under-seeded. Bitmetv is not for the casual torrenter, period. It never claimed it was, most of the people on staff there have always agreed that it takes more work on the member's part to keep an account in good standing.
They're still my exclusive site for tv content, both new & old, and I have very little trouble seeding back to 1:1 within 48 hours on a home connection on just about anything I DL there.
Their current site design leaves something to be desired, but the bottom line is it works. I'm not sure why they would really need to grow their userbase, it's been between 18,000 and 23,000 for at least the last 4 years, that seems healthy enough to me.
The forums are less active than they were 4 years ago, but part of that has to be the changing times. when bmtv began, no one I knew was watching their favorite shows on an ipod or smartphone, or streaming entire seasons of shows from netflix... These days I read that netflix accounts for something like 25% of ALL internet activity in the evenings. A big percentage of that has to be tv shows. Stuff that was hard to find 4 years ago is available from a lot of sources now, many of them 100% legal. I used to get 90% of my tv shows from bitmetv, but I now DVR at least half the shows I watch. I use bitmetv for UK & Swedish tv shows now, and maybe 25% of the US shows I watch are downloaded from BMTV.
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