What.cd To Launch New BitTorrent Tracker Script
Written by Ben Jones on November 30, 2007What.cd, one of the private BitTorrent trackers that aims to be a replacement for OiNK, also has plans to replace the slightly outdated TBSource script. When ready, it will be released to the public under either a GPLv3 or AGPL license.
What.cd is riddling the BitTorrent community on its frontpage: “What begins with a G, ends with a E, and can run at 50 miles per hour?” Unless you’re a fan of Animal Planet, you’re going to wonder what’s gone on at what.cd. The answer is Gazelle, a reference to what.cd’s new Project Gazelle.
The project, so named according to one of the developers because “It’s sleek, fast, and generally awesome” (and ironically, commonly targeted by predators) aims to be a new tracker script that would make even high volume sites run smoothly. Currently, what.cd, like most others, is based around the ageing TBsource, a site template with a large number of holes, and little documentation.
Whilst some might think that it would be easier, and perhaps quicker, to update and close the holes in the existing code, the development team had other opinions. “You’d think so, but in the end, it would take 10 times the manpower, and much more time than it would take to rewrite it. The TBSource code is scary - there are no comments, things on one page can be implemented differently from those on another page.”
The overall aim is to produce a torrent site that will be faster for end users, easier to use for site administration, able to use optional modules, and allow a lot more users on the same amount of hardware as a TBsource system. As one developer explained “The ‘catch up’ feature on the forums, as found in TBsource, runs 2 queries per post. As we have it, that is over 80000 queries each time a user loads the page. Our sourcecode has this down to 2 queries”.
They are not alone in these attempts, back in late June the popular UK TV site UKNova also moved away from TBsource, also moving to a system based around XBTT. However, there are currently no plans for UKNova to make their system public as yet. Project Gazelle aims for a closed beta within the next 6 weeks, and will be implemented on what.cd when it is stable enough to do so. Eventually it will be released to the public, under either a GPLv3 or AGPL license. However, warned one of the development team, “some of our tools, such as cheater evasion, will not be included in the public version of the source, for obvious reasons.”
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Awesome! Though, I’m a waffle user myself, it’s always nice to see progress in the community. =)
I had OiNk, but now I can’t even find anyone with waffle or what to invite me. OiNk going down was the worst thing that’s happened in a long time.
wtf i dun hav a what.cd account i need one plz send to lol@mpaa.com im a lreally gud ^loader and stuf i had a tun of uploads prob teh best from oink
Any suggestions how to get an invite. I was on Oink and now I have no place to stay :*( Help me out :)
Sounds great and all…but what’s cheater evasion?
2, I feel you’re pain. I’m in the same boat. An OiNK user who had a 0.95 ratio I’m dying here.
On a side note if anyone has any invites too either waffles.fm or what.cd I would really appreciate an invite. nokry56 AT gmail DOT com
Time will tell if this really is a vast improvement. Hopefully what.cd cleared all the bugs. I’ll keep my fingers crossed on one hand. The other hand feeds me mouth with a delicious jellybaby!!
excuse my grammar up above. an all nighter for a big test killed my sense of how to write in english. thankfully it was a math test, not an english one…
I hope their word is bond. Otherwise ba..humbug to them.
Both OiNK going down and Demonoid going down was a devastating hit on the torrent side. But it is nice to see that many are working on improving the security holes. TPB with the P2P protocol, What.cd with their tracker system and with .
Invites?? Buhuhahahahahah…….ROFLMFAO
Its nice to see sites like this trying to revive the torrent world. Long live torrents!
the unfortunate thing is, both sites are suffering greatly from people uploading tons and not downloading so much. everybody wants to get their 5,000G buffer back before they chance downloading random torrents. it kind of reminds me of oink in mid ‘05.
plus, oink’s top 10 page was absolutely wonderful.
Oink’s top 10 page was wonderful, it’s too bad nothing has risen to rival it yet. Project Gazelle sounds intriguing, great if it works out. Maybe they’ll open up more invites so cast out Oink members like myself can get back in on the world of music Oink offered. Are What.cd and waffles.fm even allowing new members?
I was really hopeful that answering the what.cd riddle correctly would lead to a registration page as a reward.
If you want to trade, give or get some bittorent invites, check this site:
http://tracker-invites.org/index.php?referredby=1767
so they cant even secure the staff forums in Tbsource but they think they can code a tracker…?
The more trackers and sites they take down, the more and better they come up.
Retaliation against the Anti-P2P is easy, simply downloading and uploading is all that is needed.
You may think to yourself, your download/upload means nothing. It does on a large scale, you strengthen the entire bittorrent swarm by adding to a huge group of users, so huge it cannot be defeated.
What is cheater evasion? What make a cheater in this context?
Security through obscurity … sounds bad, really BAD!!
Cheater evasion is a way for them avoid ratio cheats on site.
Awww! nerds hording invites because the cool kids picked on them in highschool and now you are mad at the world…hahahahaa….let the typical comebacks fly!!!
Still some invites for what.cd left:
http://tracker-invites.org/index.php?referredby=1767
Hmm, no info on what language it’s in or platform portability. Hoping it doesn’t turn out to be some windows only .net monstrosity.
Invites are open @ what.cd
20000 slots open
irc://irc.what.cd/what.cd-invites
i must say i like the way what.cd is going
“It is mostly frontend work”
sylar from what.cd
so it looks like its nothing to be excited aobut
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