January 19, 2009 by sharky
Good things come to those who wait. TehConnection’s coders & staffers certainly took their sweet time getting everything just right, and now TC has been officially reborn using a highly-customized (and sophisticated) version of What.cd’s Gazelle codebase. Aesthetically pleasing as it is user-friendly, forget what you used to know about the old TC - version 2.0 will rock your movie world!
What.cd’s frontman spoke out, "Personally, my hopes are placed on TehConnection. The people running that site really do know what they’re doing, which is an increasingly rare thing to see in the private tracker world. And from what the little birdies tell me, the gazelle switch is imminent. When it comes to raw coding power, the TC staff blow most other tracker staff I’ve come in contact with out of tha water. Hate to say it." — WM
Finding an Invite to TehConnection.eu
Presently, TC is not directly open to new members (they’re still working out a few remaining bugs), but may open up in a week for public signups. To celebrate the re-launch, there’s a brand-new recruitment thread in the Invites section of What.cd’s forums here. Just shoot a PM to the thread starter with an email address, you should be invited in under 24 hours. Additionally, all current TC users received 5 shiny-new invites as a welcome-to-v2 gift.
You can also request an invite in TC’s IRC channel:
irc://irc.P2P-NET.eu/TehConnection.Invites
New Features:
Months of painstaking customized coding has paid off in dividends for TehConnection, as there are plenty of unique features unseen anywhere else.
"Peoples"
The "Peoples" feature is something we’ve concocted here at TehConnection to help you get connected to the movies here on the site. We’re all movie fans and one thing we can all recognize is wanting to discover new and awesome movies. We’ve all got favorite actors, directors and writers. Whether you’re a Whedon-ite and want to see everything Joss Whedon’s ever worked on, or if you’re a fan of thrillers and want to see all the Hitchcock films, you’ll enjoy the Peoples section. Accept no substitutes and flimsy imitations, Peoples is taking the tracker and turning it into something new and exciting. And it’s only here at TehConnection. Now get to searching!
At the top of the TC menu, click on the Peoples link. Enter in a director, producer, writer or actor name. For example, type "Dicaprio". The resultant actor is Leonardo DiCaprio. Click on the name, and the list of movies he appears in will appear in ‘collage’ style. Here’s the fun part - click on a mini-movie poster and a dashboard opens up, where there’s movie art, YouTube movie trailer and even a torrent link for the film (best viewed at 1280×1024 display). This also works particularly well for actors who are also directors, as in the case for Clint Eastwood, whereby multiple Peoples categories are displayed on the same page.
"Movies"
As expected from TC, individual movie pages are concise and well organized. There’s a YouTube trailer for each movie, poster art, movie description/summary, IMDB.com link, torrent file list, peer list & individual comments. Even cooler, there’s a "Peoples In This Film" link, which presents even more actors, directors and writers with direct links to their own "Peoples" pages. Everything is connected at TehConnection.
Did we forget to mention that there are torrents, too? Ala style of Gazelle, torrents are grouped together in each film name. Whether it be x264 720p or 1080p, DVDR, XviD, Blu-Ray or Scene releases, they’ll all be listed. There’s even a dashboard link on the main browse page (aka movies) for each film.
Our Synopsys: The all-new TehConnection will assuredly be a smash hit. TC’s forums are working again (and very active), all user classes are permitted to upload torrents, and there’s been over 80 new torrents uploaded in the past day or so. TC is simplistic, yet sophisticated, and a real beauty to behold.
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