September 03, 2010 by sharky
Great news for scene freaks: SeX (SceneXpress) is currently and unconditionally open for registration for the next 5 days, starting immediately. That’s right: no interviews, no IRC recruitment, no scavenging for an invite. Officially out of beta for about two weeks now, SeX v1.0 brings about many new exciting changes to this scene tracker which we’ll cover in detail below. This time around we’re even permitted to include screenshots of the tracker in action.
• Signup link: http://scenexpress.net/opensignup.php
• SSL Signup: https://scenexpress.net/opensignup.php
New Changes (2010-09-03) and SeX v1.0
Unbanned IPs
.RO and .IL IPs are Unbanned — As of today, Romanian and Israeli users are now permitted to sign up at SeX. Read on…
"After some serious discussions, we have decided to remove the country bans on .RO and .IL! We have decided to give these two countries a second chance here at SeX and we sincerely hope that they grab this chance and prove us wrong for banning them the first time!
We will naturally be watching the new users from these countries carefully and hope they do not do anything that might cause their countries to get banned again.
So, as of today all .RO and .IL torrenters are welcome here at SceneXpress!"
New H&R System
Best to let SeX explain the new changes to their H&R system…
"The Hit and Run limits are as follows:
If you have successfully completed the seeding requirements on less than 100 torrents, you have a Hit and Run limit of 3. This means that you are allowed up to 3 HnRs before the system disables your downloading privileges; although the DL privileged removal is only temporary until you correct your HnRs. We hope that you do your best not to fall into this category.
If you have successfully completed the seeding requirements on 100 or more torrents, the system changes from a 3 strikes system to a percentage based system having the HnR limit on 5%. This means that your Hit and Run limit is now 5% of your completed torrents.
Here are a few examples:
If a user has 100 successfully completed torrents; that users Hit and run Limit changes to 5 HnRs. That means the user can do 5 hit and runs before the users download privileges are disabled.
Another example: If a user has 263 successfully completed torrents; that users Hit and run Limit changes to 13 HnRs. That means the user can do 13 hit and runs before the users download privileges are disabled."
Unseen elsewhere, this policy essentially allows its members to H&R torrents, but only up to a point. The more you download, the more leniency you have. Therefore a member who has downloaded 1,000 torrents is permitted to have up to 50 H&Rs on the account.
NOTE: (Snatch Policy System) — As before, all members are required to download and seed at least two torrents per month (that are larger than 100 MB) or else risk losing the account.
New Seeding System
To avoid receiving a H&R, these are the new seeding requirements for individual torrents:
- • Seed all NEW packs (0-14 days old) to a 1:1 ratio OR for 120 hours minimum! (5 days)
- • Seed all NEW single torrents (0-14 days old) to a 1:1 ratio OR for 72 hours minimum! (3 days)
- • Seed all OLDER packs (14 days old or older) to a 1:1 ratio OR for 72 hours minimum! (3 days)
- • Seed all OLDER single torrents (14 days old or older) to a 1:1 ratio OR for 36 hours minimum!
Seedbonus System & Bonus Shop
SeX’s Seedbonus System was the first of many new features introduced when they originally launched out of beta. Points can be swapped for a wide variety of site perks in the Bonus Shop: invites, anonymous on peerlist, +v in IRC, remove warnings/H&Rs, user search, and more (see screenshot below). Unlike the majority of "bonus" systems implemented on trackers, SeX’s system uses a combined "seed GB" total, not the number of torrents.
"The system checks once (1 time) every hour for torrents seeded, it gets the total combined size of those torrents and gives you 1 point for every GB you’re seeding with a max of 100 points per 1 hour.
As some of you may have noticed - You had some ‘extra’ bonus points to begin with. The reason for that is that we wanted to surprise our members so we let the system run in the background for a few weeks before publishing it. Enjoy!"
Thus, seed some big packs and you’ll be amassing points in no time! For example, if your combined seeding torrents is greater than 100 GB, you’ll be generating 2,400 points per day (assuming you seed 24/7).
Bonus Shop:
New SeXy ‘Torrent Details’ Pages
Here’s a feature that is fairly difficult to implement on scene trackers - and that’s the ability to include release details automatically on-the-fly for new torrents. At SceneXpress specific info for each torrent is added which varies from category to category. Thumbnails, IMDb links and other tidbits may be included.
However, for torrents in movies/films the IMDb parsing has been taken to a new level. In categories which include Movies-XviD, Movies-DVDR and Movies-x264, check out the new "Show IMDb Info" link. Here you’ll be presented with extended real-time info about the film from IMDb. Quite an amazing feature considering SeX’s killer pretimes. You won’t find this on GFT or TorrentVault, and although SCC offers a similar feature it’s not nearly as complete.
SceneXpress on IRC:
Server: irc.scenexpress.net
#support (open to all) — For members and non-members alike.
#SceneXpress, #pre, #announce — Found in the Profile; add these manually (it makes it easier to join).
Misc. Stuff About SeX:
Fast DL speeds — All new torrents are seedbox-hosted, naturally.
Great Pres — Check out the torrent browse page and see for yourself. Pretimes are on display for each torrent.
SSL Security — For the paranoid, HTTPS browse and HTTPS tracker are available options.
Dual-Browse pages — Split between "Torrents" and "Spam". You probably get the gist of the idea. Spam torrents are always freeleech. There are other freeleech torrents which can be found in Torrents (see the six different ‘pack’ categories on the right), which currently lists 460 unique torrents. Overall: 20,000+ FL torrents; there shouldn’t be an issue with keeping a good ratio. Just don’t H&R and you’ll be fine.
Arcade/Betting — The Arcade feature has now been enabled; but not yet the betting? Perhaps coming soon.
Stay with this tracker: New features unseen elsewhere, great sceneaxx, and unique ideas place SeX into a forerunner among scene trackers. Stick around to see where this one goes; there’s plenty of motivation from both staff & the dev team. Great stuff so far!
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