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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[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 am staff and confirm this :) Do you think we’d not thought these things through?
[quote comment="356356"]whoever said you need 2 servers you are wrong. we are running on one server right now. EVERYTHING
Tracker IRC Website etc etc We have 2 servers 1 is still boxed waiting to be shipped.
Unless you have facts don’t make statements that you cannot verify.[/quote]
With what specs may I ask? I don’t think it’s very affordable for many bittorrent trackers. Why not comment on the other things I wrote?
I’m sorry, but seriously? A group of people spend a bunch of time working on making sharing music/whatever easier and they get ripped on? I know its the internet and all, but…A site where I can find a ton of music and be reasonably sure its not a transcode AND the site’s staff are trying out new ways of organizing it? Yeah that place sucks balls…
This was a terrible story.
It didn’t highlight any of the greatness that is Gazelle, and it was just lazy and pessimistic in tone.
what.cd forums hacked. here is a post from the private forums.
http://pastebin.ca/993991
[quote comment="356791"]what.cd forums hacked. here is a post from the private forums.
http://pastebin.ca/993991/quote
That’s not working
Love it when this site talks about PRIVATE sites. Nothing better to keep a site like this under the radar by posting about it….
Sometimes this site does more damage than good to torrenting.
If anyone can send me an invite to what.cd or waffles.fm I would appreciate it diggdig21@gmail.com
It’s looks really awesome. Long live What.cd!
What.cd is absolutely horrible since they “upgraded” to Gazelle.
Searching and Browsing are difficult now, unless you are only looking for one single item and you know the exact title, Gazelle is fucking worthless. There is no way to discover new music with Gazelle and navigating through it requires too much clicking as its so counter-intuitive. Im switching to Waffles.fm as my primary music tracker now, even though their horribly drawn category icons and shit waffle logo annoy the fuck out of me.
I agree, this gazelee is a piece of shit. They’ve ruined a formerly awesome site.
*gazelle*. Whatever the fuck it’s called, it sucks. Extremely difficult now to search for flacs & all my bookmarks are gone.
Gazelle and What.CD are really sucking now since they made the change. Not only is it harder to look for music but their fanboys and mods are banning and silencing anyone who openly criticizes that piece of shit!
[quote comment="358242"]*gazelle*. Whatever the fuck it’s called, it sucks. Extremely difficult now to search for flacs & all my bookmarks are gone.[/quote]
Ya, cause it’s real hard to go into advanced search and pick “lossless” for bitrate.
MORON
[quote comment="358327"][quote comment="358242"]Ya, cause it’s real hard to go into advanced search and pick “lossless” for bitrate.
MORON[/quote]
You need to upload 20gb and become a power user to use this feature. Currenly theyre allowing anyone to use advanced search to calm everyone down, but theyre gonna change it back in a month. Gazelle and What.cd suck hardcore!
[quote comment="358484"]
You need to upload 20gb and become a power user to use this feature. Currenly theyre allowing anyone to use advanced search to calm everyone down, but theyre gonna change it back in a month. Gazelle and What.cd suck hardcore![/quote]
So, let’s see here. You don’t even know how many gigs it takes to get to PU, but yet you know that the search is gonna change in a month?
Sound like bullshit to me.
Sour grapes, perhaps?
[quote comment="358484"][quote comment="358327"][quote comment="358242"]Ya, cause it’s real hard to go into advanced search and pick “lossless” for bitrate.
MORON[/quote]
You need to upload 20gb and become a power user to use this feature. Currenly theyre allowing anyone to use advanced search to calm everyone down, but theyre gonna change it back in a month. Gazelle and What.cd suck hardcore![/quote]
Umm, no they’re not?
Don’t be ridiculous, and don’t post made up stories
[quote comment="358595"][quote comment="358484"]
You need to upload 20gb and become a power user to use this feature. Currenly theyre allowing anyone to use advanced search to calm everyone down, but theyre gonna change it back in a month. Gazelle and What.cd suck hardcore![/quote]
So, let’s see here. You don’t even know how many gigs it takes to get to PU, but yet you know that the search is gonna change in a month?
Sound like bullshit to me.
Sour grapes, perhaps?[/quote]
Correction, i was mistaken about 20 gigs upload, i checked the FAQ and its actually 25 gigs uploaded!
Anyways my post still stands as truth, advanced search is only available to power users and its planned like that all along, but they temporarily changed that to calm down the users who were angry… but mark my words, theyre reverting back to power users only next month.
ok nevermind, apparently What.cd does plan to make advanced search availble to ONLY power users next month. This is truly sad.
So the same people that got pissy will get pissy again.
[quote comment="358692"]ok nevermind, apparently What.cd does plan to make advanced search availble to ONLY power users next month. This is truly sad.[/quote]
absolutely untrue
i take that back, its true :(
What.cd sucks… Like waffles. OiNK was a god. Now is a shit!
Gazelle is so noobish as same like site what.cd and waffles. we want oink back. Don’t want this piece of shit torrent trackers…
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