20 New Private Trackers: October 2009 Edition

October 06, 2009 by sharky

Ahh, Autumn - days are getting shorter, leaves are changing colour, and new torrent trackers are starting to sprout up around every corner of the interwebs. It’s time to recollect our latest findings, in which we review 20 new private trackers (amazingly, none of which are adult). Once again, we’ve cranked up our honesty (and sarcasm) - there’s plenty of new torrent sites to write about in this October edition.

http://www.siscate.com.ar

Siscate has actually been around for nearly 4 months now. This very popular Argentinian/Spanish tracker uses the Gazelle codebase, and unlike many general gazelles, is adept in blending the two. All new accounts come with 8GB upload credit and 3 invites. Stats — Members: 1,201 | Torrents: 1,667 (440 active).

Our prediction — Siscate won’t find a large English fanbase, due to the content being mostly inclined towards hispanophone communities. Having said that, there’s still a fair amount of international torrents available - such as found in the music, apps, adult and DVDR categories.

https://sodifferent.biz

  • — Category: General
  • — Signup URL: Not found

Starting out in the beginning of September ‘09, SoDifferent.biz originally began as FileList.biz (no connection to FileList.org). As recently as just a few days ago, signups were open at this link, but no longer. Getting back to biz; there’s 284 torrents listed, although 226 are considered dead (and the entire peerlist including leechers is under 100 for all torrents combined).

Our prediction — If there’s one redeeming quality to SoDifferent.biz, it’s that both the site and tracker use HTTPS. It’s simply amazing that entire days worth of torrents would have 0 seeds. As Don Cherry might say, "Kids, this is how not to run a torrent tracker".

www.thedarksyndicate.com

TheDarkSyndicate, or TDS, originally planned on concealing itself - that is, before staff had a change of heart. This Gazelle tracker currently features 352 active torrents & 1,565+ members in less than four weeks since their début. Here’s the pitch found on What.CD forums about TDS:

"We are a new site with an old site mentality. We focus on the Community first, torrents are just part of the package. We have a request system in place and encourage Members to utilize it as much as possible. Our Uploaders have extensive libraries waiting to share. We are a Gazelle based tracker, have a busy Forums and IRC Network with a live DJ’d Radio Station."

Our prediction — Good tracker; great staff; very cool DJ radio program - but is this enough to propel TDS into l33t status? Probably not. Many trackers have tried the "Gazelle & 0day/General" combo and it usually spells disaster. Truth be told, TBDev is still the reigning champ for 0day/gen trackers, and this won’t change anytime soon. Perhaps the most important reason for this is in the coding: auto-uploading scripts, automated IRC services to connect with the tracker, pre’s and topsite prefeeds (high scene stuff) - are all done for TBDev, not Gazelle. To get offtopic, TiT is one tracker that’s managed it well (and there are others), but as it stands "the scene" in terms of private tracker access to it, still favors TBDev.

Time will tell if there’s still room left for any more general trackers, but TDS still has plenty of potential. New members receive 2 invites, and everything is currently set to freeleech.

http://rapidtreggy.com

At FSF, sources for finding new/open private trackers come from everywhere. Take RapidTreggy for instance - a fellow private tracker freak at work told me about this one (we’ll call him Dan… because, well - that’s his name). While not exactly new (oldest torrent is from May 31/09) but there’s a ton of activity here, torrent count totals in at 1,196.

Our prediction — It’s tough for trackers to beat the odds of finding success when using TSSE code - but despite this, RapidTreggy is thriving in its own right. Loads of peers on the torrents, great DL speeds, decent pretimes - we surmise that over 8,100 members can’t be wrong.

http://filezoneworld.com

  • — Category: General (Forum-style)
  • — Signup URL: You’ll find it.

FileZoneWorld is a newer tracker (from August?) in the style of a forum - visitors need to register first before being able to access anything. FZW currently lists just over 200 torrents on the tracker. Seeding rules are quite relaxed - either seed to a ratio of 1:1 or for 24 hrs, whichever comes first.

Our prediction — Fail; unless they can save it with content, and fast. Trackers based on a forum layout tend to not do very well (aside from mega Russian sites). The reason? Unpleasant on the eyes, not to mention all those extra mouseclicks needed to browse categories & subcats. Forums are for Rapidshare links, not torrent sites - didn’t they teach you this in Trackers 101?

http://www.wii-leech.info

Wii-Leech (obviously pronounced we leech) first surfaced back in June ‘09, and caters to all-things related to the Wii game console. Most of the torrents pertain to Wii game ISO’s in both PAL and NTSC format, although there’s a healthy selection of WiiWare releases as well.

Our prediction — With 935 members and 291 torrents, Wii-leech is quickly turning into the de facto site for Wii torrents & releases. Not to be overlooked by Wii fans - dozens of new torrents are added weekly, and all new accounts come with 1 invite and 5GB upload credit.

http://trackeraccess.org

Online since late June, TrackerAccess is a TSSE tracker that currently indexes 909 active torrents & a respectable ~2,000 members. This general tracker offers mostly movies, TV and music releases - with a few appz, adult, and games torrents thrown into the mix.

Our prediction — Hit & Miss. We tested a few 1-seed torrents, and download speeds were impressive (on some). We can conclude that many torrents are hosted on a seedbox - but it all depends upon which uploader you choose to download torrents from. "Top 5 uploaders" are listed on the browse page (to the right), but this doesn’t mean they’re using seedboxes. For instance, the #3 uploader ‘Tank’ is using his/her home Australian ISP to seed, which spells disaster for DL rates, especially across multiple connections & torrents. We’ve all seen those comments in public torrent sites that plead, "Plz seed seed seed!" - well, you’ll be shit-out-of-luck if 2 downloaders decide to DL from the same home-PC uploader, which we witnessed. 12 Kb/s doesn’t get it done.

http://torrentsupreme.com

  • — Category: General
  • — Signup: Don’t.

TorrentSupreme is yet another tracker based on TS Special Edition code. No idea where this one is headed, but the outlook seems bleak. Case-in-point; there was a message posted recently on a torrent forum which read, "We need uploaders desperately!". Yes, you do. And that’s exactly how not to get them, or members.

Our prediction — There are certainly better general TSSE sites than this one, but are there worse? A low torrent count can’t help matters; at last check there’s just 63, many of which are dead. Dead like TorrentSupreme. TIP to staff: Try to sell your domain on Sedo, someone might pick it up and spin it into a winning site.

http://www.fyber.org

Fyber has actually been around for quite a while now, although the oldest active torrent on the site is only a week old, which suggests some decent re-interest in the site. This Romanian/English scene-only tracker currently lists 439 active torrents & 4,428 members.

Our prediction — Could do well. TBDev is always a winning choice for a tracker codebase for usage in general sites, and Fyber is no exception. The layout is clean, browsing is easy, and most releases are English. Loads of activity, with an above-average amount of new torrents being added daily. Fyber had just 141 torrents back on Sept 30th - now the total sits at 439.

http://torrent-rocks.co.uk

Here we have another TS Special Edition tracker that began back in September. Torrent-Rocks offers an eclectic array of content (movies, music, etc) and lists 280 active torrents. Everything is seedbox-hosted, from what we can tell.

Our prediction — Without appearing to single out Torrent-Rocks, but we’re noticing that the latest trend in TSSE trackers is to offer ‘general’ content - and this usually isn’t advantageous. Niche TSSE’s can do well (such as aus.sierules.com), but all-purpose sites that use the TS codebase just end up appearing cluttered and disorganized.

http://btsite.eu

  • — Category: General (Polish)
  • — Signup: here.

Non-Polish torrenters need not apply - come to think of it, neither should Polish denizens. BTSite has added a meager 25 torrents in the past 9 days, with only 2 of them being larger than 700MB. We wonder sometimes if trackers start out just so they can link to other trackers, hosting companies and BitTorrent Toplist sites.

Our prediction — A ghost town. Even for a Polish tracker, this site sucks. Just 200 torrents added since June 26th, and there’s only 234 total peers for all torrents combined, which spells very low activity.

http://www.scenedemon.us

SceneDemon.us is the sister site of SceneDemon.com (also open for signups). This site focuses on games torrents, and currently offers mostly PC ISOs and PC Rips (scene releases, with some internal packs as well), although console game torrents have recently surfaced.

Our prediction — Already lists an impressive 276 active torrents in their first two weeks of being online. Lots to choose from [RELOADED, SKIDROW, ADDICTION etc]. 99% of all torrents are hosted on a seedbox, so great DL speeds can be expected throughout the site. Off to a good start!

https://www.suntreeheaven.org

About SunTreeHeaven - we’ve been watching this site for a couple of weeks now. Previously listed just 26 active torrents a week ago, but the total has now risen to 65.

Our prediction — Aside from the minuscule amount of torrents, this site is a bit of a mess as well. Activity has picked up recently, but not to the caliber that a serious tracker would be trying to accomplish. In their defense, both the site and tracker use HTTPS (SSL) and torrents can be downloaded as a ZIP file - but it remains to be seen if these security features can save this fledgling.

www.dvdreleasenet.org

  • — Category: DVDRs, HD Rips
  • — Signup: You’ll find it.

DVDRelease needs a lot of work, content, and a seedbox hosting the torrents before members begin to flock in. With just 63 active torrents, this late-September startup seems to be going nowhere fast.

Our prediction — For fun, we took a peek into ten different "one seed" torrents, and since the peerlist is shown on the site - we can conclude the BT client used in these torrents is uTorrent 1.8.3. Which also suggests that they’re likely hosted on a home PC. Lackluster DL speeds confirmed our suspicions, and resolved to telia.se (a residential ISP from Sweden). It’s a one-man show, folks!

http://ntrace.in

Hungarian torrenters should be excited about this new tracker, and for good reason. NTrace.in already lists an impressive 439 total torrents in less than a month. Considered a general tracker, although most of the torrents pertain to movies/TV and DVDRs (110+ DVDRs on the tracker).

Our prediction — NTrace is not an international tracker; English members won’t have much use for this site. However, as a Hungarian tracker - we have to give it a big thumbs up.

http://aus.sierules.com

Aussie Rules has actually been around since April ‘09 but was previously unlisted around here. It’s a sports tracker but more specifically, a tracker for AFL (Australian Football League) torrents - also known as rugby in North America.

Our prediction — With over 4,000 members and 550 active torrents, if you’re an AFL/rugby fan - then this is one niche tracker you’ll want to be a part of. Lots of peers on the torrents, so expect great DL speeds.

http://net-vision.org

Net-Vision’s browse.php page was broken for several days, but the issue seems to be resolved. Anyways, this September startup lists 183 active torrents.

Our prediction — There’s absolutely no rhyme or reason to the uploads. There’s wallpapers, music videos and tiny apps that you really shouldn’t expect to find on a tracker. In fact, more than half of their torrents are under 30 MB in size. Strange site so far.

http://qemist.info

Qemist is a TSSE tracker that currently lists 272 active torrents & 892 members through their first 3 weeks of being online. Movies (XviD and HD) and TV releases make up for most of the content, although there’s some decent TV packs, as well.

Our prediction — Too soon to form an opinion, but it does appear that torrents are being hosted on a seedbox (we checked out some 1-seeds, and they resolve to a Kimsufi). 50 new torrents were added on Oct. 5th, which shows that staff are trying to increase torrent count quickly.

http://www.yugoteka.com

Yugoteka is a new Serb tracker using TBDev that’s been online since July, and indexes 532 active torrents.

Our prediction — As far as Serbian/Croatian trackers are concerned, Yugoteka is a winner. But for the English community, save your effort: there’s absolutely nothing of interest here.

http://www.eviltorrents.net

Last - and least - on our list is EvilTorrents. Here’s a tracker you’ll want to be avoiding, at least for now. Almost no torrents, no activity and mostly-absentee staff = fail.

Our prediction — The way this site is headed, it’s a waste of everyone’s time. With 36 active torrents listed, the number is actually 15 (the rest are dead). A wise man once told us, "You can measure the success and determination of a tracker by counting the number of torrents added in their first month. If it’s less than 200, then they’re off to a bad start."

New Trackers that FSF reviewed in September:

• GloryBits & BakedBits - Two New Gazelle Trackers

• StoreThe.net - A New 0day Scene Only Tracker

• TorrentDay.com - Another Scene-Only Tracker Opens

• Popular JPopsuki Tracker Makes Return on Gazelle



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