BitTorrent Tracker Software “Gazelle” Debuts on What.cd
Written by Ben Jones on April 22, 2008After a sneak peak and trial run last month, the what.cd team has finally made a semi-public release of the Gazelle tracker and site software, by doing its first large scale roll-out on its own site.
Gazelle, as we reported back in November, is an attempt by the group to replace the aging and buggy TBsource. It is intended as a fast, flexible system, that reduces load on servers and databases, whilst increasing features.
Over the weekend, what.cd was upgraded, so that all of its roughly 43,000 members could try it. Whilst there were initial bugs, including a problem with IRC channel password keys, everything seems to be running smoothly now.
More of a problem was a DDOS the site experienced when it had just gone live to its members. The attack which lasted over 4 hours and pulled 100Mb/sec, frustrated a number of the site’s users.
Also a source of frustration for many was a misunderstanding over a ‘freeleech’ offer. Done as a stress test, it was canceled after 6 hours – the announcement about it said it could last 24.
Many users who grabbed stuff they wouldn’t have gotten otherwise in an attempt to increase their ratio, started downloads and still had them going when it was stopped, which lead to some friction between staff and users. As always, the golden rule is to never download something you don’t want in an attempt to boost ratio.
However, Gazelle is not just for music trackers. Another site, Ntorrents, will be changing over to it shortly, according to an administrator there. This will be as much of a test in many ways for Gazelle as this weekend’s launch on what.cd was. This time though, it will be testing its viability beyond music trackers.
The developers have not yet announced a release date beyond ‘when all the major bugs are fixed’. Stay tuned for more.
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It’s pretty good alright. Be good to see on a few more sites.
private trackers suck ass
what.cd has become really easy for finding good music now :) TPB is also gonna install Gazelle XD
yea this is good news, once the bugs are out. this will be great news for other sites, as it will be cheaper to run! welldone what.cd staff and welldone for making it public!
welldone is correct dave and its well deserved HOWEVER i have heard that the system has already been exploited and yes private trackes really do suck ass.
ps you cant spell slaughter without laughter
has TF got its own IRC channel?
i would defo like that…..
real-time twitter-based pre feed:
http://twitter.com/pre_feed
getting on for 10K entries so far….
What is just a shitty site, it is full of transcodes, mislabeled torrents and hit n runners. Now with gazelle, it’s still just a shitty site with a even shittier design.
[quote comment="355378"]What is just a shitty site, it is full of transcodes, mislabeled torrents and hit n runners. Now with gazelle, it’s still just a shitty site with a even shittier design.[/quote]
Do you have something better? If not, STFU as you are just showing what an idiot you are. You must have a grudge or are just jealous ;)
[quote comment="355134"]private trackers suck ass[/quote]
That’s funny LMAO :) Strange that of the 2 private trackers I belong to, the quality is better than any of the other public trackers available and the reliability far exceeds those of public trackers. Do I sense frustration from someone who is just pissed off that they are not a member? All it takes is sharing back what you download to be a member of a private site as I have never paid a dime to either of the private trackers I belong to. If you can’t share back, you shouldn’t be torrenting.
Does a DDOS really increase page generation time?
gazelle it excellent.
here’s some of the nice features that you haven’t mentioned:
- you can use your own CSS without the need for extra greasemonkey scripts/plugins/workarounds.
- the amazing wiki style artist pages, which include all their releases and formats on one page (see http://i26.tinypic.com/28iyijd.png for an example)
- the controversial new request system, whereby you pay in upload ratio to place a request, but at the same time, if you fill a request you get a “bounty” of ratio as a prize and incentive for filling them.
gazelle has fuelled more downloading on the site (which was a problem before - too many seeders!) and just before anyone else comments and says “lolz it doesn’t werk there are l0adz of bugs” remember it is in beta stage and is still being tested.
Exactly that is the problem com. You don’t release testing software to users without giving them a choice.
they have a choice alright. there are plenty of other sites that use TBDev if they want to continue using that. not least waffles.
I’d like to trade a invites, All4Nothin invite for a what.cd invite, or if someone would like to be generous…
SiD.Remote@gmail.com
[quote comment="355632"]I’d like to trade a invites, All4Nothin invite for a what.cd invite, or if someone would like to be generous…
SiD.Remote@gmail.com[/quote]
to get invited to what.cd go to their IRC. it’s easy enough.
[quote comment="355642"][quote comment="355632"]I’d like to trade a invites, All4Nothin invite for a what.cd invite, or if someone would like to be generous…
SiD.Remote@gmail.com[/quote]
to get invited to what.cd go to their IRC. it’s easy enough.[/quote]
irc://irc.what.cd/#What.CD-invites
Go there and maybe you’ll get lucky. :)
Hey I will trade a invite to Demonoid or Scene Machine for a invite to what.cd. If anyone is interested e-mail me whatcd.invite@yahoo.com
The freeleech was actually left on for the full 24 hours. They just announced it was over after 6. Nobody actually suffered any ratio harm over it people just thought other people might have.
What.cd really SUCKS! Garbage of torrents and ban users who was banned on waffles (with his miracle system (?)), wtf?!. Don’t recommend it. :/
what.cd <3333
[quote comment="355807"]What.cd really SUCKS! Garbage of torrents and ban users who was banned on waffles (with his miracle system (?)), wtf?!. Don’t recommend it. :/[/quote]
hhha yea. that was the funniest shit. it was failing so bad they were banning users for talking about it. censorship on a torrent site ftw!
[quote comment="355792"]The freeleech was actually left on for the full 24 hours. They just announced it was over after 6. Nobody actually suffered any ratio harm over it people just thought other people might have.[/quote]
can you speak for all 43k users? did they all tell you? did they all post?
[quote comment="355842"][quote comment="355792"]The freeleech was actually left on for the full 24 hours. They just announced it was over after 6. Nobody actually suffered any ratio harm over it people just thought other people might have.[/quote]
can you speak for all 43k users? did they all tell you? did they all post?[/quote]
Is it possible that maybe he has insider information?
Any idea to when the source will be public? Gazelle was going to be open source right? projectgazelle.org is still only in a half usable state :(
anyone else having problems accessing what.cd? i can’t get in from my home pc. tried flushing dns and all kinds of bull. wont work?
please somebody!
[quote comment="355930"][quote comment="355842"][quote comment="355792"]The freeleech was actually left on for the full 24 hours. They just announced it was over after 6. Nobody actually suffered any ratio harm over it people just thought other people might have.[/quote]
can you speak for all 43k users? did they all tell you? did they all post?[/quote]
Is it possible that maybe he has insider information?[/quote]
i didnt know insiders can poll 43k users on what happened to every single one of them. i heard peoples ratios got fucked. and i have read that people up/down stats are weird and STILL not adding up correctly or counting at all
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