What Waffles? The Hydra Lives On
Written by Ben Jones on October 30, 2007With the demise of oink, many music aficionados were left with little in the way of similar sites. However, true to the hydra phenomenon, a week later and several new sites have sprung up to replace it. We asked the admins of two of these sites for their future plans.
Both what.cd and waffles.fm are set to continue from where oink left off, with the same rules and requirements. Each of them aiming to provide music lovers with a place to both share and discuss music.
What.cd (currently offline at time of publication) was founded the day of the OiNK takedown. “I felt sick to my stomach all morning” was how ‘What’, co-founder of what.cd described the day OiNK got raided. “We plan to grow into a large tracker - probably not as large as oink, and not as open, but eventually, I would like to support at least a hundred thousand users,” he adds
Waffles.fm on the other hand, doesn’t open for another few hours (12:01AM PST on October 31st). “In principle we’re filling a gap in the market - a lot of people just don’t get on with open / lenient trackers. In restoring that we’re also bringing back the community OiNK had, which is a big part of it,” is how waffles co-founder ‘Barney’ put his site to TorrentFreak. He is also not being as openly ambitious at first as “What” either “We’re looking at inviting perhaps 200 or less people on the opening day. We’ll gradually invite more people as things progress.”
Neither of the admins showed much enthusiasm for BOiNK, the project that is in development by the guys behind The Pirate Bay. Their main concerns were in the overall quality, and longevity of torrents on a public tracker. Somewhat ironically, however, both sites are aiming on moving to take up permanent hosting at the PRQ datacenter, as soon as upgrades there are complete. “The electricians started their work of installing another 3×200A feed yesterday” a PRQ source told TorrentFreak today.
And the reaction of the old OiNK staffers? Paine, currently the public voice of the old OiNK team, had no real comment on them, beyond hoping they both do well, and reiterating that neither is an ‘official’ replacement for OiNK.
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Yeah, I really am liking What.cd. I am on the invite waiting list for Waffles.fm too.
w.cd is my tracker of choice
waffles has come too late.
oh and w.cd isn’t offline, you just don’t have the url right ;)
The problem I have with these two sites is that I can’t join them even though I was an Oink Power User. They are both invite only and I don’t know how rustle up an invite. So far I see that STMusic is doing really really well the past few days plus they have welcomed us refugees with open arms. Lots of new content popping up every few minutes the way it used to happen at my pink palace.
Agreed. It doesn’t matter that we were on Oink, it only matters that we can’t get into those supposedly pro-Oink trackers now.
STMusic seems closed to registrations. Do they open it from time to time, or is it invite only?
I joined STMusic on the day of Oink’s closing. They had open reg then but not sure now. Keep trying… they are a very friendly bunch and should open reg again when they prune out the losers & posers.
Thanks, I’ll do that.
Hm. How I wish I had a decent upload rate so I could upload as much as I download (though I’ve been trying insistently to get 1.1 even though I only use public trackers seeing as how pathetic my upload is and how hard it’d be to join a private tracker). These asymmetrical connections are, at best, painful for the file-sharing community and I don’t have the resources (A.K.A money) to acquire a symmetrical connection (if I’m even offered one here by my providers). I already download at a sad 52 - 55 KB/s and upload, at best, at 12 KB/s. Bah! I can’t even upload to various torrents with that transfer rate, I have to limit myself to one or two torrents (which I select according to the amount of seeds, the ones with less seeds get my tiny 2 cents of help to keep it alive for as long as I can).
It’s sad to see such a great site “die”, seems like it had earned quite a reputation in regards to quality and music distribution. It also seems sad that private trackers are the ones who earn such reputation for high quality torrents, it should be the vast majority of the torrent community that distributes high quality torrents not a selected few within a private tracker, nonetheless, it’s good to see everyone is recovering. Best of luck to the new rising trackers and all those refugees seeking a new place to call “home”.
i hate waiting to find invites
all this oink boink waffles what.cd is confusing :o
Yes these invite situations are terrible. Although, since waffles.fm is letting former oink members email them with proof that they were on oink, that is a very good thing. And of course you stand a greater chance of getting an invitation if you do decide to email them.
Ben, What.cd is the wrong url, you should point to http://incegmbh.com/
Don’t Digg this article please
Please change the what.cd link to incegmbh.com for the time being.
STmusic is going to be the next best thing no doubt and it’s a great site they have started giving users 25 invites or more depending the level you are so i guess there is a starting block for you to get your personal friends into the community.
now if only the rest of the idiot tracker owners ran like ST did we’d all be fine.
Good; An ACTUAL hydra, as opposed to everyone relying on TPB (as great as those guys are, everyone relying on them isn’t hydra-like).
[quote]STmusic is going to be the next best thing no doubt and it’s a great site they have started giving users 25 invites or more depending the level you are so i guess there is a starting block for you to get your personal friends into the community.[/quote]
I found they didn’t have much music.
since everyone on STmusic has 25 invites, do you think you could throw one my way.
swift dot zarox at gmail dot com
since there’s open invites, why don’t you just sign up at the site! :D
stmusic.com is open registration right now. when you go to sign up, you shouldnt need to enter any invite code.
when waffles.fm opens, could someone send me an invite? i’ve got about 20 gigs of goodness from oink to upload haha. jlroettger@gmail.com
LOL. Yeah, 200 people is gonna really cripple your dreaded corporations.
What a bunch of losers.
would love a invite to somewhere…pleaseeee have tons to upload
dmbhowie22@yahoo.com
Alright. I know it has something to do with the launch of Suprnova but what’s with the Waffles? I don’t get it.
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