New Private Trackers: August 2010 Edition (Part 2)

August 15, 2010 by sharky

To continue on with the list of new trackers for August (part deux), here are a few others that made an entry. For the most part there’s no rhyme or reason to these; it’s a bit of a mixed bag of new sites that were simply not included in the last list. As promised we’ve included tracker updates from our July Edition; some have failed miserably while others have prospered. Enjoy the read!

New Trackers…

https://tnetwork.ath.cx

  • — Category: General (Germany)     Codebase: TBDev ‘09
  • — Signup Link: You’ll find it.

TNetwork is a new German tracker that came to life recently - the oldest indexed torrent dates back to July 16th. As the case is with many German trackers, this one’s behind ath.cx which is not uncommon. TNetwork employs HTTPS on the browse & signup page, and there’s also the option to use their HTTPS tracker for secure torrent downloads.

Our prediction — Nothing but greatness to report about. 1-seed torrents are hosted on OVH boxes and download speeds are great - the https tracker works as expected; both locally (uTorrent) and through other SB clients (rT/ruT). Quite possibly TNetwork is the only German tracker using TBDev ‘09 sourcecode, nothing short of delicious eyecandy. Stats: 651 members | 967 active torrents.

http://gameburner.net

For those that missed out on the brief open-reg of Blackcats (and it just might be open again), well if not - where were you? In unrelated news, it would appear that newcomer GameBurner.net is closing signups possibly as soon as this Sunday (August 15th). Although not the same caliber of tracker as BCG, this one’s gathering quite a following (and a future) as well. While natively Polish, the site is scheduled to be translated into English, and soon. Stats: 1,293 members | 882 torrents.

Our prediction — Navigating GameBurner takes getting accustomed to, as it’s not a conventional TBDev tracker. Extensive coding features have made their way into this one: their browse page is similar to CN or Wunza motif, but with a games twist. Torrents on the ‘browse’ provides extended info to include screenies, genre, tracker stats, pretime, and others. Get English on this one, and we might just have found a winning games tracker!

http://attainthe.net

We’re somewhat ahead of ourselves here presenting a modestly unknown tracker called AttainThe.net. It’s slated to become a new music tracker using What.CD’s Gazelle sourcecode (RC2). Obviously still in ‘alpha’ without (yet) any torrents, uploaders, or customized features to discern itself from the rest of the pack. Work is still needed, which is acceptable for a new site.

Our prediction — Raise your hands if you’ve heard of Need-Music.info - a tracker that tried, but died. While unrelated to other trackers unable to break into the lossless music scene, AttainThe.net isn’t even out of the womb yet. To "thumb down" a tracker in its infancy stage - well, that’s not how we roll. However if staff wants to introduce their new tracker publicly on FST, you best come prepared first.

http://filetv.net

Users of public torrent indexers in search of a breakout to privates will find no clearer example of what to avoid through FileTV, the epitome of what goes wrong when a potentially talented coder hasn’t an iota in his/her brain about what to actually put on the tracker. This alone spells disaster.

Our prediction — Unless FileTV has prepaid hosting, death will come soon and swift. We doth give credit to the nicely-done TBDev design, and we taketh that away with the axxo, arrow and other worthless stolen torrents. P2P-releases are one thing, but P2P-of-P2P encodes? Go back to TPB, IH.

http://www.pandashare.org

  • — Category: General    Codebase: xBTiT
  • — Signup: here.

After reviewing countless new trackers it’s fairly easy to predict if a site will do well, or else just fizzle into oblivion. Our gut instinct tells us that PandaShare will evidently become a tracker in the latter group; that is - impending death followed by an unmemorable existence.

Our prediction — PandaShare has been semi-busy uploading new torrents (116 in all) since debuting on August 9th. Not terrible stats by any means, but it’s the chosen sourcecode that becomes their nemesis. xBTiT trackers rarely succeed without an element of nicheness, hint of sceneaxx, or a huge dB of devoted users. Panda has all but three of these criteria.

http://www.elitezones.ro

Online since 2010-07-28 EliteZones is a new Romanian tracker that currently indexes 410 torrents. All new signups receive 5GB upload credit, and everything is currently set to freeleech. However, most of the torrents pertain to junk shit like small appz, wallpaperz, muzak and the like. Being new, there still might be some hope yet.

Our prediction — Whilst the layout is sweet (TBDev), this version lacks a couple of things. There’s no ability to filter torrents by criteria (name, size, S/L high-to-low) and there’s no date as to when torrents have been added (on the browse); the only way to find out ‘date added’ is to click-into the description page. Perhaps we’re just nitpicking.

Creative Bits

  • — Category: Web-dev     Codebase: Gazelle RC2
  • — Signup Link: none

We’re forbidden to provide exclusive info on this new still-in-alpha Gazelle RC2 startup, but expect nothing short of greatness. Think TemplateP2P as a tracker, that’s all we can say.

Our prediction — Few can deny templatep2p as being one of Internet’s go-to forums for all-things related to web development. Spin the same idea into a torrent tracker (instead of DDLs) and we might just have a winning combination.

Other Trackers…

• http://diamondtorrents.info — A TSSE 7.0 tracker that went ‘invite only’ recently. Aside from that, we have no further info.

• http://www.movieseed.org— A new Polish movie? tracker with a crappy Alexa rank, suggesting nothing is going on here. It’s feasible this one bans IP addresses and/or requires manual account confirmation.

• http://www.eurotorrent.org — Online since 2010-08-11 - nothing much here yet. Just 55 torrents, most are smaller than a fingernail.

• http://www.seedforspeed.com — We didn’t register, for reasons previously mentioned about XbTiT.

• http://www.thesecrethq.org — A covert forum, DDL site, or tracker? WTF? Post news if you know what this is…

Updates on Last Month Trackers…

What’s come about those latest trackers from last month? Here’s some updated stats (old stats as reported were from July 6th 2010). We’ll present them in the order in which they first appeared in the originating July post.

LeechArchive.com: After showing modest promise, this one’s now 404′d. Guessing they were on a bad/tracable $40/mo FTP leech. Then again we might have had something to do with it indirectly: Every time we show stats from public pres with a positive reference to a new site, it gets the 404. No kidding; the scene has power - and especially on IRC where it counts.

StoreTheFiles.net: Managed to double their userbase from 200 to 414. Torrent count holds steady (at 1,100) from a month ago. Growth is minimal at best.

Love2Leech.com: Membership jumped from just 303 to a whopping 1,294. Total number of torrents also shows an increased spike; now there are 4,344 total torrents - up from 2,600 (and 596 are flagged dead).

TheFiles.ro: 3,796 total torrents, 1,107 are actively listed on the browse page (with 2,438 total seeds). Stats from last month: 2,235 total torrents | 738 active | 1,339 seeds. No clue as to how many members they possess.

SceneTime.com: Now indexes 11,462 torrents on the browse, if you can believe it. Official stats which pertain to number of members, seeds, peers are all cleverly hidden - and likely for good reason. Discrepancies in statistics are quite obvious, for example; torrents on the ‘browse’ are in multiples of 2 (and if this isn’t odd enough), these exact same torrents on their Top Ten list have been inflated by a 50% increase in the ‘reported’ number of seeds (see screenie below). We’ll leave it up to you to come up with a plausible reason as to why this is.

ArcticTorrents: Now has just 4 active torrents, down from 69. Three of these are ‘external’. This tracker’s a cooked bird.

SeedThis.info: Oldstats - 80 members & 67 torrents. Newstats - 325 members & 189 torrents (with 192 total seeds among them). A slight improvement was made during the past 5 weeks, but not to the caliber that a serious tracker would expect to achieve.

GlobalFile.ro: No idea, our account was pruned and we couldn’t be bothered to re-sign up to check changes. A downward sliding Alexa Rank of 6+ million says it all.

Pt-t.ath.cx: Offline.

HDTorrents.it: Still sucks. 53 total torrents, and only 7 have a seed. Ciao!

FileBitz.org: Oldstats - 1,785 members & 738 torrents. Newstats - 1,988 members & 1,106 torrents. These numbers may seem impressive, but ~50% of torrents are dead.

CultivationNation.com: This weed tracker had just 13 active torrents at the time of our last review, now they have 101 (with 232 total seeders). Users on site: 362.

TheEmpire.bz: As expected, TheEmpire has exploded in liveliness. 2,664 very active torrents since coming online 6 weeks ago.

Torrent-Palace.info: Offline.

HotVibes.org: Still has three distinct browse pages; all are empty expect for music, which now contains 237 torrents (down from 566). To quote our own quip from the July post, "Loads of torrents are pouring in daily, if they can keep up the torrid pace…" - Well, this has now officially come to an abrupt halt. Site is now FAIL.

Spdtorrents.com: Free hosting fail; nice try.

Firetorrents.net: No idea. Deprecating 8+ million Alexa speaks a thousand words.

Extremervd.com: Offline.

XtraFiles.ro: Domain not found.

Bouncey-torrents.co.uk: Now has 521 active torrents on the browse; before they had just 58. All other tracker stats are unknown/not made public.



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