- The forums are far too full of spam for my tastes. Intelligent topics exist but are usually ignored by the forum userbase and get pushed down by the forum game threads.
- Their IRC is somewhat active considering site size but it's a small core number of people, and it's usually fairly quiet. When I come back there's usually been a mass highlight since they do try to get conversation going.
- Pretimes aren't 13 hours (at least for popular stuff) but they also aren't stellar, and sometimes I've had problems with the peering of the initial uploader (i.e. the actual torrent won't start until some other peers pick it up). It's worth noting this has only happened 2-3 times.
- The clubs are just fancy names for the different forum subject areas. The leaders are in charge of stirring up activity, holding contests, etc. I actually won a game review contest a while back so that was nice
- Request fills are quite good from what I understand, but I've never requested anything there. The only stuff I ever really request is obscure music anyway, in which case What is the better place to make the request since I can slap a big bounty on it.
- Feature-wise it's got a lot of cool stuff but I find it a bit cluttered and hard to find all of those features. I still figure out new stuff randomly just by clicking around.
- It's essentially ratioless if you're not a douche and can seed for a week and a half. Retention on old stuff isn't amazing but stuff often stays alive, even with just a seeder or two.
- The staff are generally nice and fairly active and approachable.
- The site itself is rather slow (i.e. loading times) which frustrates me to no end, and I've seen the frustrations voiced by others as well. It used to be practically unbrowseable, after the server switch a while back it's better but still slow.
- Security is tight, it's taken much more seriously than it is elsewhere.
- Regarding it being a successor to ScT, you'll feel more at home at SCC.
What the place really needs is more peer activity. The problem is, a lot of people get invited who are already on 20 or so torrent sites since they're "known"/noticed elsewhere, and are really only interested in the community. Even if they stick around and participate in the community, they rarely grab the content. There'll be fairly popular stuff like new 0-day TV shows that'll have hundreds of snatches elsewhere, and they'll get like 5 snatches at FSC.
Anyway if the staff want any of that removed, let me know. I tried to be fairly ambiguous about everything since I'm aware they don't want a "review" done.
Originally Posted by whatcdfan
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) that tracker can offer to us, bittorent users?
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