December 20, 2008 by sharky
For those who are searching for an online service that checks private trackers for open registrations, we don’t have to look very far. You’re probably already aware of BTracs.com and TrackerChecker.org. While both of these sites adequately provide updated listings, they’re about as visually stimulating as a ham sandwich. Introducing OpenTrackers.net — a brand-new exciting online utility that puts sexy back in finding private trackers that are open for signups.
www.opentrackers.net
OpenTrackers.net is a new startup that launched publicly back in November, and is beginning to show some promise. While the site is natively in French, there’s a built-in ‘Google Translate’ tool that can be accessed from the right sidebar to select various languages.
Cool Features:
Percentages — For each tracker, percents are used (i.e. - 99.4% | 0.6% ) which indicates the uptime for a signup page. The higher the percent is in green, the more often a particular tracker has open signups (when compared to when they close them; or remove the /signup.php page, for example). A good working example of this is Demonoid, which is reportedly open 11.1% of the time. Thus, when a tracker is being reported with a down signup page, a quick glance at the percentage stats allow users to gauge the likelihood of whether or not a particular tracker is due to open signups in the future.
Refresh Button — Each tracker link is checked approximately every 10 - 15 minutes, and refreshing your browser window at OpenTrackers.net will not update the stats. However, there’s a neat little "refresh" feature for each tracker that does update the statistics in real time. (Currently it doesn’t work when running OpenTrackers through the Google Translate, though).
MouseOvers — Hover over a tracker to view a thumbnail of the signup page.
Flags — Country flag icons are used to denote the native language used on each tracker.
Upcoming Features:
FileShareFreak interviewed AstroMan from OpenTrackers.net, to get some additional info:
Sharky — We’ve never heard of OpenTrackers before - how long has this service been running?
AstroMan — The official launch date was Oct. 31, 2008.
Sharky — We notice that OT is in French. Any English or multi-language options forthcoming?
AstroMan — Time permitting, I’ll be adding language selection to the site soon. But for now, there’s a Google Translate utility that supports about 40 languages.
Sharky — There’s some neat features at OT; anything else that’s in the works?
AstroMan — I have a lot of ideas for this website, including customized RSS feeds and email notifications (for open signups), for which you could choose one or many trackers to follow. Look for these new features to be added in early 2009.
So there you have it, folks. OpenTrackers is definitely a site worth keeping an eye on.
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