A Digg-like site for torrents

Written by Smaran on October 22, 2006 

Social news has been a massive phenomenon with tens of millions of people using sites like Digg, Slashdot, reddit and Newsvine on a regular basis.
The concept of voting for stories or digging stories quickly spilled into other areas like software (iusethis.com) and Creative Commons music (CC Hits).
Now, a social site for torrents has come [...]

Social news has been a massive phenomenon with tens of millions of people using sites like Digg, Slashdot, reddit and Newsvine on a regular basis.

The concept of voting for stories or digging stories quickly spilled into other areas like software (iusethis.com) and Creative Commons music (CC Hits).

Torrop LogoNow, a social site for torrents has come into the limelight. It’s called Torrop and works in almost exactly the same way as digg, except that it indexes torrents not news. You can ’submit a torrent’ and view activity on the site with the ’sneak / spy’. The site sports common Web 2.0 features like RSS feeds and tags.

Apparently, it’s become very easy to build social, ‘digg-like’ sites thanks to the Pligg content management system. Pligg is Open Source and available for free download. Torrop is powered by Pligg.

Due to the large number of visits Digg has brought in over the last few hours, the main page at torrop.com is down. Luckily, you can still have a look at the Top Stories page.

Torrop's NewnessIt’s not clear when the site launched, but the date of the stories might be some indication. The no. 1 top story on the site at the moment was submitted 123 days ago. It’s titled “Testing this and I hope it works man!” and has this description: “This is a test n00b.” Maybe they’re just having problems with the calendar. Overall, the site just doesn’t seem ready for the masses, despite the fact that “god” is a member (look right).

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6 Responses

1 Oct 22, 2006 at 22:51 by garden

What the hell is this? It’s just a bunch of sites and has nothing to do with torrents.

2 Oct 23, 2006 at 12:41 by horo

its just like link list of popular torrents, same script like digg / pligg etc…

3 Oct 23, 2006 at 12:47 by bardicknowledge

I can’t see this beening any good. I have explored the site and it really is pretty pointless. Vote for a torrent… well all the other torrents have a better system to tell a torrent is good. Its called displaying the seeds and leeches of the file.

4 Oct 23, 2006 at 20:52 by Akex

Actually this site is pretty sweet. Nice Digg

5 Oct 23, 2006 at 21:33 by soulxtc

I dont get it either…..may have to take a second look.

6 May 19, 2007 at 04:43 by Manchester

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