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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[quote comment="199932"]People; stop asking for invites. You aren’t going to get any. If you’ve been part of Oink.cd before, simply email waffles@beau.ws an old torrent from Oink.cd
and chances are they’ll let you in.
http://waffles.fm/faq.php
check that page out on how to join oink.cd[/quote]
Thanks for the tip, hopefully I’ll make it back again.
BTW at http://www.blackcats-games.net/ (game tracker) it says on the left “to support us buy t-shirts”) and its a link to cafepress .. exactly the same where paine always links to. and the link is the same just http://www.cafepress.com/blackcats_games and for paine its http://www.cafepress.com/something_else … so he DOES get money from their affiliate programm cos they pay this for every shop. Paine is now banned from oink cummunity for life!
[quote comment="199946"]BTW at http://www.blackcats-games.net/ (game tracker) it says on the left “to support us buy t-shirts”) and its a link to cafepress .. exactly the same where paine always links to. and the link is the same just http://www.cafepress.com/blackcats_games and for paine its http://www.cafepress.com/something_else … so he DOES get money from their affiliate programm cos they pay this for every shop. Paine is now banned from oink cummunity for life![/quote]
Hate to break it to you but OiNK is gone. Everyone is banned for life
Why ya guys hate oink so much now? it`s not his fault that he was busted. i will support his new site at oink.6x.to
pwned
[quote comment="199950"]Why ya guys hate oink so much now? it`s not his fault that he was busted. i will support his new site at oink.6x.to[/quote]
You…
get out.
[quote comment="199950"]Why ya guys hate oink so much now? it`s not his fault that he was busted. i will support his new site at oink.6x.to[/quote]
Haha noob thats a fraud.
There is no New Site. Just mediocre sites trying to replace it… What.cd and Waffles.fm
Oh and btw, What.cd is located at http://incegmbh.com/
[quote]Why ya guys hate oink so much now? it`s not his fault that he was busted. i will support his new site at oink.6x.to[/quote]
Why do you hate him enough to make scam sites?
[quote]why did what.cd change their address? earlier today is was “what.cd” not it is ‘incegmbh.com”
what is the reason for that??[/quote]
#47: They have been using incegmbh.com since the first day. They have some issues with the What.cd domain.
please stop mentioning oink.6x.to in public its a private site.
[quote comment="199972"]please stop mentioning oink.6x.to in public its a private site.[/quote]
1. Nothing on the Internet is private
2. By private do you mean fraud?
I’d like to be invited to what and waffles. If anyone have any invite. thanks.
i emailed waffles and i still haven’t gotten a response i was a power user on oink.. so it’ll be interesting to see how everything pans out..
its funny, i trusted waffles.fm from the get-go for no other reason than the design. its so easy to spot an riaa/ifpi/mediadefender website: entirely table based that wouldn’t pass xhtml validation if their lives depended on it.
I wonder if a cute avatar is still a must….
can someone spare an invite?
http://xs.vc/waffles.fm/faq.php
So are waffles and what both ’safe’ for users? Are their servers based in PRQ already, or are they working on setting them up there in the near future?
Thanks for the faq…
I dont know where what.cd’s servers are located. I do know the admin is only 14 years old. And I dont trust that.
Waffles.fm is located in the Netherlands with plans on a dual server in Sweden.
I think Waffles.fm will be more secure.
Ex power user here looking to joing what.cd Any body wishing to spare an invite? It would be appreciated & Cherished..Jaybee10@excite.com
sorry..its jaybee10@excite.com
oink is returning in the next days.. oink.6x.la
no oink.6x.to
if anyone has any invites to either to spare please :)
bdnicol (at) optusnet.com.au
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