members making new sites?

[bblogs]

...they would have been coding their site for at least a couple weeks

TBH, if I started a tracker I'd be coding for probably 6 months, and it would have a lot more features than default TBDev...

..and on the other hand we have unnamed sysops leaving the default TBDev banner

[WeldenSmith]

Real private trackers, who care about security, don't want any publicity in big or small public forums. I never trust any trackers that come to FST to announce their "arrival" on the torrent scene.

And after reading up on superseed101's history and seeing the big feud here between privatetorrent and ifi, I'm even more confident that serious torrent users should stay away from these new trackers.

Do your homework to determine which new trackers are legit and have a chance to stick around, and which are doomed from the start. Or stick with your established trackers if you don't know what your joining.

[integral]

iFi didn't intend to be public at all. I think something unfortunate happened to them, as they were a decent tracker before all these negative events took place. As for privatetorrent, I'll save my (un)kind words for some other time.

[aysomc]

...they would have been coding their site for at least a couple weeks

TBH, if I started a tracker I'd be coding for probably 6 months, and it would have a lot more features than default TBDev...

..and on the other hand we have unnamed sysops leaving the default TBDev banner

yea but im sure an experienced coder could make a site free of security issues in a couple weeks. im just talking about coding to make it secure. obviously more coding would need to be done but a lot of that would come from the beta testers that i mentioned finding bugs, it shouldnt take more then a few months like i said if you're working on it constantly and not just coming back to it every couple days. and LOL @ sysops leaving default banners, who did that?

[bblogs]

LOL @ sysops leaving default banners, who did that?

That shall be left for people to discover. Like it has been said, people should look into a tracker before joining

[Artemis]

I've been around long enough to see some of the more spectacular failures, from trackers started for the wrong reasons, ScN was a prime example, where despite the efforts of staff from other websites it still went down in a screaming heap. There have been many others started up by a group who wanted to be 'leet' and be staff without having a real clue about what filesharing is really about (Agent47 was just the most spectacular moron but there have been many others).
Just rocking up with a slightly different stylesheet, and inviting all your buds as staff does not a tracker make, and then you actually want to find uploaders and staff that make the tracker into something worthwhile that users actually want to be a part of.
There is actually alot of hard work involved in figuring out your aims in creating a new tracker, and if your aim is just to be 'staff' then the thrill of it all will probably hold your attention for two or three server payments, and that is exactly how long so many of these trackers have lasted, roughly 3 months before the limited attention span of the people who created the tracker wanders off somewhere else.
The real communities have a dedicated group who work to make the tracker different, to make it an individual community in its own right, to give the tracker a different feel to others but most of all, work tirelessly on the code, upload torrents, admin the userbase, answer user questions, be available on irc, and moderate the forums and interact with the users, all in their spare time because they enjoy filesharing.

[Something Else]

Real private trackers, who care about security, don't want any publicity in big or small public forums. I never trust any trackers that come to FST to announce their "arrival" on the torrent scene.

That reminds me of a quite a few trackers.

[Thodwras]

Real private trackers, who care about security, don't want any publicity in big or small public forums. I never trust any trackers that come to FST to announce their "arrival" on the torrent scene.

That reminds me of a quite a few trackers.

Like iTS did with a Comm Rep or ScL for example?

[jukesta]

exactly!

[pone44]

I have just never seen so many threads with members advertising their new trackers. I can not see that as secure or profitable with all the other 0 day sites. Did c*one- tt* - TD , all the other big tracks start off like that? Posting in a public thread? Curious.