September 22, 2009 by sharky
• https://sciencehd.info/register.php
UPDATE: Sept. 30 - Public registration is now closed.
ScienceHD - About / Stats
Content
SciHD is a hybrid between eLearning and TV releases, with some audio & apps thrown in the mix. If it’s related to science, documentaries, nature, history or even Sci-Fi fictional TV shows, you’ll find it here.
Allowable Content: Science, science fiction, and learning-related videos, eBooks, magazines and audiobooks (which pertain to science). Any program that airs on the stations below is OK to upload; as is anything that’s categorized as SciFi on TVRage or IMDb (except for movies).
SciHD Stats
- Maximum Users: 3,000
- Enabled Users: 2,746
- Torrents: 2,595 (2,265 active)
- New Torrents: Between 25 - 50 torrents added daily.
- IRC Support: irc.forpirates.net/SciHD-support
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ScienceHD - Features
Security
SSL Browsing — By default, SSL (https) browsing is forced through its own verified SSL certificate.
SSL Tracker — SciHD is one of just a handful of trackers that offers a bonafide SSL tracker as an alternative; which can be enabled in the user profile:
No more MPAA — In an effort to stay off the anti-piracy radar, MPAA films are no longer allowed on the tracker. Not that there were many before, probably as little as twelve movies.
Usability
Too many new features to mention here. SciHD offers an array of specialized functionality to enhance the tracker, such as:
Multi-torrent downloading — Members can tick multiple torrents and download them all, neatly packaged up into one ZIP file.
MouseOver Info for Series’/Episodes — Simply hover your mouse over a series or episode to display information for each (without having to click in).
Upload/IRC Bot — SciHD has their own IRC bot (SciBorg) whose releases are posted in the main IRC channel and to the tracker simultaneously. The torrents are hosted on a 500GB seedbox, so typically the latest few hundred torrents are on a 100 Mbps connection - thus ensuring great speeds for all. SciBorg (IRC bot) is slated to be released to the public.
In-house Image Hosting — Hosted on Amazon S3 cloud servers for blistering fast content delivery. Used exclusively for torrent descriptions, icons, uploading, and for other internal functions.
Live Statistics — Click on the Stats - [Show] link, then on Details (or just click here if you’re already a member). Shows browsing habits, user locations, user classes, ISPs and OSes.
Non-profit: SciHD is all about knowledge, not about profits. When donation requirements are met for each month, the rest of the month is a sitewide freeleech on everything.
New Features to come:
Hit ‘n Run System — A joint development project, the first-ever hit & run system for Gazelle trackers will be implemented (as an exclusive frontend) on SciHD. Coming soon.
SETI@Home team — Look for SciHD to create their own SETI team, where members will be able to sign up under their site username. Of course, this will all be tied into the tracker (SETI credits, stats, etc) with competitions and prizes for the best SciHD SETI members.
Sliding Bonus/credit system — Previously unsupported in Gazelle is the ability to incorporate a sliding bonus system, whereby 3 sets of seeding data will be accrued into the seed points formula (file size, file types, and duration of seeding). Soon to be announced.
BitLet Integration — SciHD will be the first private tracker to incorporate BitLet downloading (and seeding) through the use of Google Chrome and other technologies - to build what is basically an all-in-one site "application", using BitLet to download torrents, jIRC for IRC chat & Google Gears to keep a local copy for site-downtime, etc. This is so users can download, seed, and communicate anywhere, even if they’re in an environment where they can’t install stuff. Unfortunately these webapps will only be exclusive to Chrome users, but it’ll work as a normal webpage for other browsers (except maybe IE).
Other Upcoming Features:
- • Torrent of the week
- • Upload speed cap detection
- • Option to park account for donors
- • More CSS style sheets & podcast
- • An innovative anti-cheat system
- • ScienceHD on Twitter: http://twitter.com/sciencehd
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