Private File Library At Fst?

[sparsely]

nice verified sections would be great.
prolly a good idea to hide them from guests though (only visible when logged-in).

but with hosting tons of links, remember the case of sharereactor.
get to big and popular, you attract the wrong kind of attention.
and they'll get what they want, especially if the hosting is, as stated before, in the US or UK.

I'd really like to see ed2k links work here without it appending 'http://' to the beginning of every link.

[hungrylilboy]

i havent read any of this thread and to be honest, dont intend to. But I think this is possibly the worse idea anyone has ever come up with on this board...seriously.

[namzuf9]

If your looking for ways to draw more traffic this way then you've had a few ideas thrown your way. The verifieds for other networks/apps may well be worth looking into, its how I first found this place as did many others.

One thing you should consider before increasing the intrest in this board is maybe trying to get the board hosted on servers in countries that are a bit more liberal with regards to copyright issues.
As Sparsely mentioned

remember the case of sharereactor.

[Broken]

Just allowing torrent files on the site would be great!

It would definitly increase traffic to the forum. With the decline of Kazaa this place has hit a brick wall in term of growth. And with things getting worst, many users are moving on to other things. This could be a chance to give this place the nich it needs to bust through the roof and really stand out. There are really very few big well know torrent sites. The only ones I can think of off hand would be suprnova. org, phoenix-torrents.com, and the empornium.us. It would be competeing for a large market share with very few competitors. And torrent files are 100% legal here in the states, because all they are only text files.

Setting up a tracker would be really easy. Just a couple lines of script, and it's non-copyrighted material so nothing to pay there. However, you would be talking about setting up a fairly powerful server and a nightmare when it comes to bandwith (at least if we are talking about a good number of torrents). But, members could very easily host their own torrents. Like I said, a tracker is no problem to set up, and at least one of the more popular clients (Azureus) has a built in tracker.

Something to consider.

[Mivaro]

Originally posted by Mr JP Fugley@15 July 2004 - 11:06
allow non-members to ask questions, a lot of people will go elsewhere if they are forced to register to ask a question. however if they se the forum as being useful they will be tempted in.

I also think guests should have (partially) acces to the board. I wouldn't register without knowing what there is....

[erRor67]

Well, this board should have a guest area where guests can post and stuff. See whats out there.


Torrents would be cool. get more traffic, but alot better B)

FTP files would be nice. But then the bandwidth would get high

[tracydani]

Originally posted by Mr JP Fugley@15 July 2004 - 13:06
people may come here if they know that this board can provide good sensible answers to a wide range of questions posed, in a friendly way. there is a lot of knowledge and experience here which can be shared about, increasing the traffic at the same time. once you get people in to have a look they may join.

This is how the forum started. Almost any time a question was asked, it was answered in a friendly way or the person was pointed in the right direction. There wasn't so much of the snide remarks to noobs(unless it was jokingly usualy).

People were able to ask without so much fear of being torn up for not already knowing. We also had members who couldn't write with punctuation(anyone remember the specific person in mind ). It was an entire post filled with one giant paragraph that was also conveniently free of the polution of commas periods quotes what have you This person frequented the place without fear of harrassment.

Anyway, it is may opinion that we should move back that direction, at least as far as how we treat people anyway.

I also like the idea of the torrents, but will the servers be able to handle them? I just think of how suprnova was always going down.

TD

[lynx]

Originally posted by tracydani@16 July 2004 - 08:03
Anyway, it is may opinion that we should move back that direction, at least as far as how we treat people anyway.

You may be right.

I also like the idea of the torrents, but will the servers be able to handle them?  I just think of how suprnova was always going down.

The big difference if that Suprnova is completely public, I don't think the same thing was being proposed.

I have to admit I'm not sure whether it was the listings which used to bring Suprnova down, or the trackers. Now a lot of the trackers are external though I think they always were. The reorganisation of the listings must have reduced the traffic tremendously.

[Spicker]

what used to bring suprnova down was the trackers so now they dont have trackers they use their own or someone elses from the tracker list

[tracydani]

So where is this idea currently?

TD