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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Hi, well i’m with the mass of people who want an invitation for waffles.fm. i’m a demonoid user, i have a ratio of 1.03 my mail is megasouls@gmail.com .
thank you.
Hi! I’ve w.cd invite, if anyone can send me invite for waffles, contact me: madeinnovember at gmail.com
Hook me up with waffles.fm or what.cd. I can provide a Demonoid or STMusic invite in exchange. neurowswitch / at / gmail.com
and so the problem continues and you all blasted the public site from tpb
this is all anyone is going to do now is come to public boards begging for invites from people they don’t even know lol so if people are sending invites out to people they dont know then what is the point of it being invite only it’s stupid.
you all didn’t want boink to flurish but at least with something public it means you can get your files and share your files,
you all rather have private sites you may never get into rather than actually having a site where you can get involved and get active with?
“i don’t want public sites i would rather have a invite only site that i know we wont get into yay” talk about backwards thinking.
Personally I’d rather have the option of using one that actually allowed the Real EX users to join without jumping through hoops pointless hoping everything goes private invite only then finding out you’ll never get into them and your then the one left out in the dark.
STMusic is now open, giving 5 (five) invites at signup. Mind that.
waffles.fm should open regs. too
stilll looking for waffels.fm i have a what.cd invite to share…
dmbhowie22@yahoo.com
invite for waffles.fm or what.cd wanted .. will swap for a invite to a nice private tracker that will never have open sign ups an quick pre times .. email me at just.4mail At Yahoo.com
Johnson, nicely put!
stop begging for invites here, not gonna happen.
Have waffles to trade for what.cd. Please email invite to
thebesmoothbrother at yahoo dot com
and I will send you the invite. I only have one left!
Former member of oink looking for an invite to what.cd :D
nathanjackson@live.com
i would really appreciate and invite to waffles or what.cd
please email if you could spare an invite
Lickxmyxlovexpump@gmail.com
Yet another ex-oinker here. Here’s something I’m wondering. How many of you really cared about the pre-release stuff?
Personally, I got it if it was something I was interested in, but the reason I loved Oink was the quality and breadth of what they had. I filled some requests, too, which was fun. Building that community took years. It won’t just come back in a couple of days.
looking for an invite for waffles or what.cd as well, got a few hundred GB of lossless stuff to offer…
murdoclu@gmail.com
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Personally I’d rather have the option of using one that actually allowed the Real EX users to join without jumping through hoops pointless hoping everything goes private invite only then finding out you’ll never get into them and your then the one left out in the dark.[/quote]
Hear, hear. See you on STM
Also hungry for waffles here! ex-oinker seeks new home. Much appreciated!
itsbryan7@gmail.com
Hey people…missing my oink…was a 3 year member of it, and need something in place. If anyone would be so kind as to send me an invite I would be so amazingly happy…
controlmodel@yahoo.com
thanks!
ex-pwrusr who would much appreciate invite to what or waffles..have stmusic invites if needed and lots of music to share and still looking for more (will be downloading not just upping) snarfsnarf1@hotmail.com
ya’ll are embarassing yourselves begging for invites
also, anybody else find it weird that on waffles.fm index its got an html comment from torrentbits.org?
I still don’t trust waffles.fm.
please give me invite;)
heipachi@gmail.com
I’ll be a good seeder.
if anybody wants to throw an invite my way, that would be most appreciated. jvesanto at gmail com
I was a member of oink for over 2 years, with a ratio of 1.8 when I last checked — some 50 gb download, 90 gb uploaded
CAN ANYONE SEND ME AN INVITE TO WAFFLES OR WHAT.CD PLEASE? I MISS OINK TOO MUCH!!!
OH YEAH, MY E-MAIL IS
makingchristmas999@yahoo.com
THANKS!
i wan a power user on OiNK with lots of music to share im lost without my palace someone please help me out with an invite! many thanks.
slymc07@googlemail.com
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