Suprnova: What Will Change and What Will Remain The Same?
Written by Ernesto on August 12, 2007The new and improved SuprNova will be launched very soon. Sweet revenge, according to the title of Suprnova’s “coming soon” page. In anticipation of the (re)launch we will list some of the new features, and some things that will remain the same.
Direct downloads
Suprnova will be extremely friendly to BitTorrent illiterates. One of the new features is a Java applet that allows you to download .torrent files without having a BitTorrent client installed. This is not only useful for newbies, but also if you’re working on a PC that doesn’t allow you to install a BitTorrent client like some workplaces or Universities have. The Java applet that will be integrated into SuprNova will be similar to BitLet.
Torrents and Trackers
SuprNova’s aim was and is to index more content than any other site. Unlike The Pirate Bay, SuprNova will also index torrents from other sources. Upon its release it will crawl more than 25.000 trackers and have a database of more than 1.000.000 torrents. This will make SuprNova one of the biggest BitTorrent indexing sites right from the start.
Search
Suprnova wasn’t perfect, but the really annoying thing was that there was no search feature. In the early days this wasn’t really a problem, only a couple of torrents were added every day. But as the site grew bigger and bigger it became nearly impossible to find what you want without spending minutes digging through the categories. The new Suprnova will therefore have a search function, a significant change, but a good one.
Design
Sloncek, the former owner of SuprNova donated the domain to TPB under the condition that they would keep the nostalgic design more or less intact. There will be some changes design wise, but most people will still see that it’s inspired by the old Suprnova look. Brokep, one of the TPB admins told TorrentFreak: “The idea was to bring SuprNova to what it would have been today it if never closed. So, it’s supposed to be an updated version of the old beloved site! We hope that people still get the SuprNova-feeling and that it also feels like a modern website.”
Community
The new Suprnova will have its own IRC channel, just like in the old days. In fact, it is already up and running, so if people want to chat about Suprnova (or other things), go to #suprnova at freequest. As mentioned in our previous post, Suprbay.org will be the new forum for the Suprnova and TPB community, over 5000 people signed up already, and SuprNova hasn’t even been launched yet.
Another new feature related to the community is the comments system. Similar to other BitTorrent sites people are now allowed to post comments on every torrent. Apart from the usual rants the comments are useful to get an indication of the quality of the files.
Front Page
Like in the good old days the frontpage will show all the latest torrents by category. The categories will be on top of the page, and they will be the same as before: Games, Movies, TV-Shows, Anime, Music, Apps, Mac & Misc.
This was only a sneak peek at some of the changes on the new Suprnova. I guess you have to wait for the launch if you want to check out all of the changes and new features, the wait will soon be over.
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Fear the rise of SN!
Everyone register on the forums!
Brokep and Sloncek are there…..which means big sexy parties!
I feel something coming….
Thta’s good. Before I knew anything about computers and about P2P, I stumbled upon Suprnova.org and browsed around. I vaguely remember what it looked like but it was fairly simple to navigate and had a huge database of torrents.
Good to see a legend come back and I may actually have some time to actually explore it more thoroughly. And yes, I do know a whole lot more about computers than I did 4-5 years ago. Much more.
When will it be relaunched?
Can’t Wait!
Well, errm, SuprNova did have search. I should know, I wrote it. But yeah, the site didn’t have search at first, until NovaSearch went live.
That was the whole origin behind NovaSearch. I was sick of digging through SuprNova to find stuff, so I wrote a search engine for it, and it eventually partially merged with the site itself.
WE WILL HUNT YOU PIRATES DOWN!!! YOU WILL DIE LIKE THE DOGS YOU ARE!
suprnova is the site that 1st got me in to torrents, after the nightmare of the dreaded kazaa!! I haven’t looked back since. feeling v. nostalgic right now*
There’s really nothing new like they claim.
It’s like Napster coming back after a couple of years, no one cares because the times have moved on and there are better alternatives
[quote comment="146120"]WE WILL HUNT YOU PIRATES DOWN!!! YOU WILL DIE LIKE THE DOGS YOU ARE![/quote]
i just have 4 words for you mpaa: LONG LIVE THE FIGHTERS OF PIRACY!!!!
[quote comment="146136"][quote comment="146120"]WE WILL HUNT YOU PIRATES DOWN!!! YOU WILL DIE LIKE THE DOGS YOU ARE![/quote]
i just have 6 words for you mpaa: LONG LIVE THE FIGHTERS OF PIRACY!!!![/quote]
sorry miscounted.
hassan, TPB crew could have made a new indexer but they decided to bring back SN as a symbol. There will always be other trackers and indexers but most end up in the trash. I believe that SN is going to be one of the nicest trackers out there to use, and it gives a big FUCK YOU to any **AA’s out there
Hm, Java applet for BT downloads? Am I the only one thinking that it’s a recipe for hit-and-running? I don’t believe that someone not even willing / being able to install the decent client will contribute back to the network and seed stuff to a decent ratio. Looking forward for bans against those applets users.
Hope that Jave bittorent applet will show ratio and ask people to seed 1:1 at least. Not like with BitLet that just shows it as a “normal download”.
Very inspiring. We hail the return of a legend.
@Section8 SN is not a tracker
http://www.xplicitbootlegs.com
…Free advertisement wh00hoo
Im pretty sure Section8 knows what the fuck he is talking about being a mod on suprbay and also probably going to be a mod on SN…
suprnova comes back, a dream comes true
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