Your Chance to Redesign TorrentFreak

Ernesto — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 09:45:29 +0000

Thanks al for sending in your portfolios. We had some briliant entries. We picked a designer from the huge list and hope to present out new look soon.

TorrentFreak has had pretty much the same look since January 2007 when our friend Rosano completed the current design. In the two and a half years that have since passed we’ve had some great times with the current theme, but we think the time has come to move on. Since we’re no design gurus ourselves, we need some professional help.

What we want:

We’re looking for a new pinkish WordPress theme loosely based on the current design.

Who we want:

A creative designer with WordPress experience and a decent size portfolio.

What you’ll get:

Cash, and the option to promote yourself in the footer of the wonderful site you will create.

Thanks al for sending in your portfolios. We had some briliant entries. We picked a designer from the huge list and hope to present out new look soon.

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Towards a RSS 2.0 BitTorrent Standard

Ernesto — Sun, 23 Jul 2006 18:03:37 +0000

SqrtBoy published a whitepaper on discussing his ideas on how BitTorrent webmasters should design their BitTorrent RSS feeds.

SqrtBoy is known for his work on Torrent Trader Lite, VBTT, IPBTT and other several BitTorrent tracker php/mysql scripts. It is great to see that someone is proposing a standard for BitTorrent rss feeds.

Every webmaster probably has his own thoughts about how the perfect rss feed would look, but this document is definitely a step forward.

SqrtBoy told TorrentFreak:

I have found that each rss feed was different from one site to another, and from a BitTorrent script to another. The multiplication and organization of different feeds formats was leading to confusion and was making it difficult to read in rss clients, and also some other feed indexing applications. The purpose of this document is to give some recommendations to webmasters on how a rss 2.0 BitTorrent related feed should be designed, so maybe we can see a standard appearing.

I think it is extremely important to have a proper standard for BitTorrent rss feeds, especially since the number of people that get their latest torrents though feedreaders, media players and BitTorrent clients is growing.

Using the same feed style will only benefit the usability of BitTorrent & rss, and their implementation in feed based TV players like Democracy, Fireant and IM.

BitTorrent RSS 2.0 Feed Specifications White Paper