What Waffles? The Hydra Lives On

Written by Ben Jones on October 30, 2007 

With 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.

What Waffles? The Hydra Lives OnBoth 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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101 Oct 31, 2007 at 12:29 by Anonymous

If you got a spare invite going for both, i was a power user on OiNK

hazilla@gmail.com

102 Oct 31, 2007 at 12:56 by ROBNZN

I have ~1TB of Breakcore, Hardcoe, Drum`N`Bass, many Lossless and rare material, full assemblies of many musicans.
If someone can invite me to waffles.fm or What.cd mr.robinzon@gmail.com
Many Thanks!
Have only account on demonoid(((

103 Oct 31, 2007 at 12:57 by E

if you got any invite on waffles, please send me on air.to.ussrgmail.com

104 Oct 31, 2007 at 13:03 by Werter

[quote comment="200204"]hey werter i have invites to stmusic do you want to exchange invites?[/quote]

STMusic I have too))

105 Oct 31, 2007 at 13:16 by soon2bewafflemember

invite?? lyingfromyou2006@yahoo.com

106 Oct 31, 2007 at 13:34 by GrX

this sure makes sense they ask you to contact them and provide proof which is fairplay as i take screenshots constantly of all my accounts incease this sorta thing happens

but they don’t provide any contact infomation no email address irc channel or network?

do they expect us to work of telepathy?

107 Oct 31, 2007 at 13:39 by tripwire

[quote comment="200145"]please stop mentioning oink.6x.to :(

it is only for old oink users let everyone go to waffles stop mentioning it!![/quote]

oink.6x.to is a FAKE!
oink.6x.to is a FAKE!
oink.6x.to is a FAKE!
oink.6x.to is a FAKE!

What the problem? You spammers have treated every board you can find as your personal advertising service- there’s no such thing as bad publicity!!

108 Oct 31, 2007 at 13:41 by Hell

Nothing against oink.cd and it’s followers but… I hate invite-only trackers.

What if I don’t know anybody with an account over there? How do I reach this source of music?

I don’t.

109 Oct 31, 2007 at 13:57 by pooper

invites? waffles or what…

ultramagnetic101@ahoo.com

110 Oct 31, 2007 at 14:08 by I Dled the New Coheed From Oink

@ hell (above me)

i didn’t know anybody at oink. i just looked hard and finally found a complete stranger at last.fm who helped me out with an invite. if you cant put in effort to get invited, i doubt you’d be a very good member anyways.

111 Oct 31, 2007 at 14:09 by Ian

Does anyone have the contact email address for Waffles? I was an Oink user and wouldn’t mind seeing if I can get an invite. Ta!

112 Oct 31, 2007 at 14:10 by I Dled the New Coheed From Oink

btw, anybody affiliated w/ waffles or with invites, i have decent asian music collection from oink and my own cds… invites are nice. kk

113 Oct 31, 2007 at 14:10 by I Dled the New Coheed From Oink

btw, anybody affiliated w/ waffles or with invites, i have decent asian music collection from oink and my own cds… invites are nice. kk

younhafan@gmail.com

114 Oct 31, 2007 at 14:11 by krissykind

if anyone would be kind enough to send me a invite to what.cd or waffels.fm.

i have proof i was ex oinker with a good share ratio.

thanks,

krissykind@gmail.com

115 Oct 31, 2007 at 14:11 by Ian

Or if anyone has any to spare, then I’d really appreciate one! I uploaded a bunch of independent UK indie/rock/post-hardcore/”punk” releases, have plenty more to upload too! :)

ianbreen.onthescene@gmail.com

Thanks

116 Oct 31, 2007 at 14:12 by dave

this is where its @
http://incegmbh.com/

117 Oct 31, 2007 at 14:12 by jaszy11

Damn. I sent my proof of oink membership (for waffles.fm) about 24hrs ago and to my disappointment, I didn’t receive an invite. Anyone in the same boat?

118 Oct 31, 2007 at 14:13 by dave

this is where its at
http://incegmbh.com/

119 Oct 31, 2007 at 14:13 by Werter

[quote comment="200322"]Does anyone have the contact email address for Waffles? I was an Oink user and wouldn’t mind seeing if I can get an invite. Ta![/quote]

waffles@beau.ws

120 Oct 31, 2007 at 14:14 by Ian

Thankyou :)

121 Oct 31, 2007 at 14:22 by salty721

[quote comment="199886"]i already registered with waffles.fm because i have proof that i was an oink member, but i can’t seem to get an invite with what.cd or (http://incegmbh.com/).

can someone who has a sure spot at what.cd send me an invite in return for an invite from waffles.fm?

ill check this site periodically to see what responses i get and give you my email if there is interest in the trade.[/quote]

122 Oct 31, 2007 at 14:23 by dumbjeff

can i have a invite for either of them both? i don’t really have new things to upload but i never fail to seed.

dumbjeff@hotmail.com

123 Oct 31, 2007 at 14:23 by salty721

former Oinker here. Need an invite to waffle or whatcd?

I have tons to share.

Thanks

anyone remember Dsign?

124 Oct 31, 2007 at 14:26 by salty721

email me rrtrac2@aol.com

125 Oct 31, 2007 at 14:35 by Werter

I have some invites to what.cd
Need btmusic, exigo, SCT

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