Whatcd 4th Birthday

[CleverMan]

Only feature I give a fuck about is the tokens. But the staff making you spend 50 tokens in a weeks time is a bit ridiculous. Why have an expiration time on them at all?

Hopefully they use this feature more often though, preferably in a way that FSC does.

they want to push users to try instead of sitting on these tokens, can't see anything wrong about it. what i didn't understood is 48hrs limit of leeching for them - probably tokens will be used more on well seeded torrents instead of half dead ones and hardly i can see any advantages of this for w.cd

But max size of allowed torrent is up to 1 gb anyway, if i understood correclty, even on low speeds you most likely will get it snatched by the end. Doing the math, as for example: 5 kbytes/s * 48 hours = 843 mb

[n00bz0r]

preferably in a way that FSC does.

God help What.CD if it goes in that direction.

[kukushka]

they want to push users to try instead of sitting on these tokens, can't see anything wrong about it. what i didn't understood is 48hrs limit of leeching for them - probably tokens will be used more on well seeded torrents instead of half dead ones and hardly i can see any advantages of this for w.cd

But max size of allowed torrent is up to 1 gb anyway, if i understood correclty, even on low speeds you most likely will get it snatched by the end. Doing the math, as for example: 5 kbytes/s * 48 hours = 843 mb

math don't work if the last seed appeared a week ago or at the other end is transmission with some faulty settings. and 5kb/s isn't always the case. last night i started to leech some stuff from chdbits - 5 seeds, 4 kb/s. switched over to bithq - 1 seed 1.5mb/s. so speed may vary.

..oh, they changed ttl of tokens from 48 to 96 hours, not bad

...and there's a new round of staff picks

preferably in a way that FSC does.

God help What.CD if it goes in that direction.

qft

[ca_aok]

Edit: I'm an idiot, disregard what I initially wrote here. Still though, 96 hours should be enough time to download pretty much any sub-1GB torrent unless it's completely unseeded.

I doubt they'll be FSC style, they'll probably be given out on special occasions or if a user does something particularly awesome.

[1000possibleclaws]

I see FL tokens as a way of giving freeleech without the unintended side-effect of seedbox users uploading huge appz to get hundreds of gigs of buffer that they can use to hit and run music torrents later on. So the expiry date makes total sense. Same logic behind the big Pink Floyd collection Staff Pick being neutral leech instead of free leech.


What.cd management makes every other private tracker staffers look like complete amateurs in comparison, eh? Other sites should take notes aha.

[Seed007]

I see FL tokens as a way of giving freeleech without the unintended side-effect of seedbox users uploading huge appz to get hundreds of gigs of buffer that they can use to hit and run music torrents later on. So the expiry date makes total sense. Same logic behind the big Pink Floyd collection Staff Pick being neutral leech instead of free leech.


What.cd management makes every other private tracker staffers look like complete amateurs in comparison, eh? Other sites should take notes aha.

soulet_baby_sandbox.jpg
logo_animate_day.gif

[theman5]

Loving it so far!

[Funkin']

God help What.CD if it goes in that direction.

When a member seeds a torrent for the required amount of time they get rewarded with a free download. What's wrong with that direction?

[beezy192]

^This is actually needed as currently there's no incentive for long term seeders except the hope that someone'll download that album from the 1.5 million torrents there and that he may get to atleast a 1:1 ratio.

[kukushka]

God help What.CD if it goes in that direction.

When a member seeds a torrent for the required amount of time they get rewarded with a free download. What's wrong with that direction?

- if the required amount of time will be any less than, let's say, a year, tracker will end up with fsc peering quantity & activity. ...ah, of course, first step in losing peers would be waffles level. oh wait, we already have a tracker with more lax ratio policy (frequent freeleech, bonus points etc)
- if users will get some bonuses _just_ for seeding, it will promote more uploading of some random crap without any reasonnable snatching probabilty

what could really be addressed is seedbox ratio whoring / hit'n'running (of course, not in the way btmusic did), but i can't see no enthusiasm of doing it from staff