‘The X’ - Open For Signups For 5 More Days (v2)

May 17, 2010 by sharky

Just when it appeared that the SceneLife crew were really on a positive roll with their latest creation "The X", a DB failure sent them back at least two weeks. This unfortunate mishap wiped out literally thousands of new users when signups opened and FSF was forced to eat our words when we suggested that they’d probably never have ‘open registration’. Well, the proverbial cat’s out of the bag, so to speak - the URL is not much a secret anymore (although we’ll still refer to them herein as "X"); even screenshots & reviews can be found floating around. Then again; why not just sign up for yourself - "The X" will be open for registration for the next 5 days, so we’ve been told directly by one of their sysops.

• Signup link: http://scenexpress.net/opensignup.php

UPDATE - 05/21/2010 - Signups are now closed.

Downtime - 2010-05-16

Attention Members

 

Due to some unforeseen reasons, our server had a mini meltdown of sorts and our database had gotten corrupted to the point that we could not recover it. As a result of this, we are forced to roll back and use a slightly older backup than we would have liked to use and ALL accounts that were opened since 4/29 are lost. There is slightly silverish lining to this story, it appears that pretty much most of the site code was untouched. We know this comes at an awkward time as we were in the middle of open signups and moving forward from the "Beta" process. However, this is a minor set back and we will continue to move forward, we do apologize for the inconvenience. As an extra note: any torrents that you have downloaded during this time are also lost.

 

User Passkeys:

 

Although the site was down, we did take the opportunity to move forward and implement our PLANNED updated passkey system. What this means is that we’ve updated the code and optimized it greatly. However, due to some of the changes in the code, all passkeys had to be reset as they no longer will be valid. We have done this already on our end and ask that you update the information in your clients to reflect the new information, or they will no longer work properly.

 

Donations:

 

In acknowledging that many people have made donations since 4/29, we ask that those people contact a System Engineer (or higher) with the information used when the donations were made (The date of the donation, your name, the amount donated, and possibly a screenshot if you have it). Please include as much detail as possible so we can verify and make sure you get the appropriate credits. Again we do apologize for the inconveniences. Members can find the staff list HERE.

 

Once again; We are really sorry for this. We know just a simple "sorry" is far from good enough, so there will be "gifts" and lots of other fun stuff coming up soon. Also this problem will most likely never happen again in the future.

 

As much as we would love to process ratio fix requests… the massive amount of them coming in makes that impossible.

I’ve witnessed some negative feedback in certain forums about the DB rollback, in which everyone on the tracker lost 2 week’s worth of ratio credit (not to mention all those lost accounts). People are complaining that this is unfair; and rightly so (well, sort of). But it’s not comparable to what happened when ScT went *poof* whereby most members lost terabytes of upload credit and an untold amount of unrecoverable donation dollars. People hardly even complained about that; sadness in the BT community overshadowed those events. At least "The X" came back online and are offering a way for donators to receive their due accolades.

I say - suck it up - they have over 16,000 freeleech torrents in their ‘Spam’ section; it really shouldn’t be all that difficult to buffer your ratio again. Plus, they’re open for registration - directly, no recruitment, no waiting for an IRC interview. If you don’t like the tracker, then just don’t (re)join it - go over to TorrentDay or IPT then.

I think "The X" rocks!

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