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I've been trying out Usenet (giganews), it's damn fast (I get around 1.6MB a sec), though music and older stuff is much better found through a bitorrent tracker.

I still miss Oink but What.CD is almost as good, it's just almost impossible to get your ratio up. They should base it on what people are sharing not on how many people have downloaded that share, ie if you're seeding 10 torrents from What.cd then that should be enough regardless of it's popularity - it's all helping keeping things shared.
 
My mate donated on waffles to get 2 invites so I could have one of them but you have to wait for a slot to be open to use the invite - been a couple of weeks now and we've still not managed to get one - anyone know how it's done?
 
Structaural said:
I still miss Oink but What.CD is almost as good, it's just almost impossible to get your ratio up. They should base it on what people are sharing not on how many people have downloaded that share, ie if you're seeding 10 torrents from What.cd then that should be enough regardless of it's popularity - it's all helping keeping things shared.
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I think what has more content now that oink ever did. IIRC at the end oink had about 200k torrents. What now has 400k, 250k if you eliminate multiple bitrate versions of albums.

It's not really difficult too seed on, everything I've downloaded has gone seeded to unity in less than 3 months.
 
Would anyone with a UKNova account be willing to PM a staff member & get my account re-enabled? It's currently expired but not deleted.

Scratch that, I got it sorted.
 
electroplated said:
My mate donated on waffles to get 2 invites so I could have one of them but you have to wait for a slot to be open to use the invite - been a couple of weeks now and we've still not managed to get one - anyone know how it's done?
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They've been open for a few mins now, so will probably be close by the time I hit submit.
 
Anyone know how to get on Blackcats Games? I was on there with about 150GB up and 100 down, but it seems I didn't go on there for 60 days and now I'm not.
 
mauvais said:
Anyone know how to get on Blackcats Games? I was on there with about 150GB up and 100 down, but it seems I didn't go on there for 60 days and now I'm not.
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They seem determined to kill their site - other trackers suffer from the power mad geek effect but BCG is the worst by miles;
  • Idiotic logon procedure that adds no security
  • Dozens of user classes
  • Loads of silly metrics to advance in said classes
  • Requirement that you seed everything for months
  • Stupid referral system where you risk being banned if your invitees break their Byzantine rules
  • Utterly pointless insistence on multi-rarred uploads
  • Unreliable custom codebase presumably written by 14 year olds
  • Critical features perpetualy "going to be ready next month"
  • Uploads restricted to "uploader" class, who must upload every day to keep status

Might just be excusable if it resulted in good torrents but it doesn't. Loads are un or poorly seeded, mainly because they've lost half their userbase. Rare stuff often isn't there at all. Tracker of last resort for me these days.

Sorry for the rant, to answer your question, invites are only being given out to uploaders as far as I can tell, so you're probably SOL
 
Yeah, it's extraordinarily badly run, but I always thought the content made up for that. What's the alternative for PC games?
 
ExtraRefined said:
They seem determined to kill their site - other trackers suffer from the power mad geek effect but BCG is the worst by miles;
  • Idiotic logon procedure that adds no security
  • Dozens of user classes
  • Loads of silly metrics to advance in said classes
  • Requirement that you seed everything for months
  • Stupid referral system where you risk being banned if your invitees break their Byzantine rules
  • Utterly pointless insistence on multi-rarred uploads
  • Unreliable custom codebase presumably written by 14 year olds
  • Critical features perpetualy "going to be ready next month"
  • Uploads restricted to "uploader" class, who must upload every day to keep status

Might just be excusable if it resulted in good torrents but it doesn't. Loads are un or poorly seeded, mainly because they've lost half their userbase. Rare stuff often isn't there at all. Tracker of last resort for me these days.

Sorry for the rant, to answer your question, invites are only being given out to uploaders as far as I can tell, so you're probably SOL
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That's totally at odds with my experience of Blackcats; it's one of the best managed trackers I've found - the seed points mod is invaluable and should be adopted by more trackers. And thought the log-on procedure doesn't add any security as far as I'm concerned, unless you delete your cookies you only need to do it the once.
 
Jambooboo said:
That's totally at odds with my experience of Blackcats; it's one of the best managed trackers I've found - the seed points mod is invaluable and should be adopted by more trackers. And thought the log-on procedure doesn't add any security as far as I'm concerned, unless you delete your cookies you only need to do it the once.
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I don't want to get into a nerdy argument about this, and if you like the site then fair enough, but as good as the seed points system may be in theory it simply doesn't work. what.cd keeps >300k torrents seeded for months on end with just a plain old ratio system. Hdbits keeps huge torrents seeded for years with fewer users and a simple bonus system.

Mauvis, the big non-expiry zero-day sites (torrentleech, rev-tt) are very good for pc-isos from the last few years. For old stuff try Home of the Underdogs. I'm not aware of a good replacement for BCG for 90's/early 00's isos, sadly.
 
ExtraRefined said:
I think what has more content now that oink ever did. IIRC at the end oink had about 200k torrents. What now has 400k, 250k if you eliminate multiple bitrate versions of albums.

It's not really difficult too seed on, everything I've downloaded has gone seeded to unity in less than 3 months.
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I might have to do the Rosetta Stone trick to get my ratio up. As I don't like to seed for months so much these days (need my upload bandwidth for other things like home server etc..).


Any Usenet people on here?

A long shot but does anyone have an invite to Newzbin?
 
electroplated said:
My mate donated on waffles to get 2 invites so I could have one of them but you have to wait for a slot to be open to use the invite - been a couple of weeks now and we've still not managed to get one - anyone know how it's done?
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I've lost my waffles account from inactivity. :D

I'm on Cinemageddon now. It's full but people are being kicked permanently. I went there last night, refreshed the page like 3 times and was in to sign-up I was well surprised.

Dodgy B movie fans only.

http://www.cinemageddon.org/signup.php
 
Citizen66 said:
I've lost my waffles account from inactivity. :D

I'm on Cinemageddon now. It's full but people are being kicked permanently. I went there last night, refreshed the page like 3 times and was in to sign-up I was well surprised.

Dodgy B movie fans only.

http://www.cinemageddon.org/signup.php
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I signed up for this. Quality little site.

You having problems with seeding C66? I cant seem to seed a thing even when I'm one of 4 seeds... the time of being booted out is nigh:(
 
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