New Private Trackers: August 2010 Edition (Part I)

August 11, 2010 by sharky

Being that there are just too many new trackers to report about in this August 2010 Edition, we’ve been forced to break it down into two separate articles. Here we present 12 new sites; most of which are considered general and/or content-specific trackers. Ratings for these are more than fair, although we’ve yet to cover some of the newer niche sites that have recently launched. We’ll dig deeper into this in Part II, and we’ll include a bonus: realtime updated stats from trackers which were included in the previous July Edition.

General Trackers…

http://bitunity.org

Officially opened to the public in the middle of June 2010, Bit Unity is a general tracker that already lists an impressive 1,537 active torrents. While tracker stats are not immediately posted on the index page, their forum link confirms that there are more than 31,000 members. A little bit of everything can be found here; there’s a nice mix of both scene and P2P releases (movies; 400 torrents - TV; 700 torrents - sports/MMA; 107 torrents) - with very little junk/0day stuff.

Our prediction — For a tracker with not a lot of public exposure, Bit Unity has done extremely well for itself. Staff are friendly, users can make requests, forums & chatbox are modesty active - if you have a few idle minutes it’s definitely an up-&-coming tracker worthy of checking out.

http://file-list.org

Online since the middle of May 2010, File-List indexes 1,418 total torrents. Being a RO/EN tracker, they list a mixed bag of torrents which includes mainstream scene/P2P movies (as well as Rosubbed ones which make up for 600 torrents), 0day/music and other categories.

Our prediction — Despite having an abysmal Alexa rank, the only thing holding File-List back from being a serious contender is their lack of popularity combined with inconsistent uploading. The number of total members is not known, nor are seed/peer numbers known for the tracker (as a whole).

http://www.soulbitz.com

While not exactly new, SoulBitz is a reincarnate of the defunct Ozone-Torrents tracker. SoulBitz began back in April?, then they went though some hard times as their database crashed taking along with it 3 month’s worth of torrents, new members & forum posts. It wasn’t until mid-July when they managed to turn things around in a positive direction. Consider this the unofficial rebirth of SoulBitz; everything is anew. Torrent count: 600 (since 2010-07-18) and growing quickly.

Our prediction — If Soulbitz can remain healthy, members will come back. They’ve got a new auto-upload bot posting torrents with fast pretimes in addition to a devout team of uploaders. We thumb-it-up due to a sleek design, easy-to-use request system, and the fact that staff are tenacious enough to continue the effort.

http://dream-torrents.com

Off to a decent beginning, Dream-Torrents reports in excess of 7,000 members (really?!) with ~400 torrents. Online since July 13th, this TS-SE tracker indexes just about anything imaginable; including BAR music packs, movie packs, mainstream flicks, appz/gamez/0day and everything in between.

Our prediction — Getting current members to be more active should be a top priority here - 7,118 registered members and just 660 total seeders on 383 torrents. Do the math, folks. It’s too early for us to predict if Dream can make the cut or not; their fate is left in their own hands.

http://skyseed.eu

SkySeed.eu is absolutely brand-new being online for merely a few days now. Torrents list in at just 42 (all were uploaded since 2010-08-10). All new members receive 3GB upload credit upon signup & all members are permitted to upload torrents. Everything is freeleech, but for how long that will last we could only speculate.

Our prediction — No prediction yet. Perhaps if they’d made it into the next ‘new trackers’ article we’d have a better feel for what direction this tracker is going. Impossible to say at this point - could turn out to be kick-ass, could be a dud. We’ll let you know in the next article.

Foreign Trackers…

http://tsn-hd.net

TSN-HD lists 87 torrents and 550 members since coming online in late July. Here you’ll find Italian HD releases for both movies and TV from well known groups such as THESiN, SiD & PrV.

Our prediction — Too early to predict, but there’s very little here for non-Italian torrenters; insofar as that most of the movie torrents are mkv/x264 encodes taken from BluRays (and for TV, these are capped from Italian stations). Good luck finding full 40GB BD releases.

http://avetorrents.com

AVETorrents is a newer Bulgarian tracker that indexes an impossible 5,000+ torrents dating back to early June 2010. Overall tracker stats are unknown, but there are in excess of 10K members (their forum page confirms this). While it’s no Zamunda.net, at least non-Bulgarian IPs aren’t blocked from accessing it.

Our prediction — As far as Bulgarian trackers go, AVETorrents gets our thumbs-up. Hopefully they can improve in the area of keeping torrents well seeded - at last check there were only 2,000 (out of 5K) that had at least one seeder (leaving 3,000 dead torrents on the tracker).

http://wormsblast.com.pl

WormsBlast actually began life back in April, but it wasn’t until at least a month later in which the tracker showed any real signs of life; and really it still doesn’t. This Polish tracker lists 1,363 members and 560 torrents (with a paltry 593 total seeds).

Our prediction — English users won’t find much of interest here. Polish-language torrents are clearly marked with a [PL] tag (this amounts to 50% of all torrents on the tracker), which includes just about everything in their movies categories.

http://www.gutezone.biz

International torrenters: avoid this one. GuteZone is quite specifically a Swedish tracker with little else to offer otherwise. Then again that the meme for most national or language-specific trackers - if you’re not part of the group then GTFO. Online for just over a month now, GuteZone lists 289 torrents (with 650 total seeds) and 1,083 members.

Our prediction — Surely there are better Swedish trackers than GuteZone; most will inarguably attest to this. So what could make this one popular? We dunno the answer.

http://besttuga.net

BestTuga is a newer Portuguese tracker that’s been kicking around since May 2010. Registered members: 1,139. Total Torrents: 870 (with 965 total seeds).

Our prediction — Nice layout but there’s not a lot of activity here. Oddly, there’s nice selection of English/scene stuff mixed in with the local content. Much is hosted on a seedbox (clearly indicated as such on the browse pages) and we can honestly conclude that, indeed, these are certainly hosted on a webserver.

Niche Trackers…

http://christianmovies.eu

  • — Category: Christian Movies (& TV)     Codebase: Ick!
  • — Signup: here.

As a niche tracker, ChristianMovies is a good idea. Take movies, cartoons & TV shows with Christian themes and roll ‘em all together into one handy site. Sure it’s not BreatheTheWord but the Judas to CM lies in it’s antiquated sourcecode - throw this one onto TBDev or Gazelle and it would make for a happier ending. Stats: 2,238 registered members | 926 torrents | 558 total seeders.

Our prediction — Honestly we’re not exactly sure if this tracker is trying to cater to Christians of the world, or just Romanian Christians. With 400 active torrents (926 total) there is enough content to appease both. Despite the disastrous choice of codebase, they do have a bit of a cult following. Apparently so does religion.

The LOL Tracker of the Month:

http://xblade-scene.org

When the sysop is uploading public torrents to a register-only tracker, one should naturally wonder what is going on. Either he/she is just bored, or has no enthusiasm to steal torrents from reputable private trackers. That, or else simply doesn’t have the accounts to them. To us, it’s always been a mystery why "private" trackers would go to the trouble to pay out $150 (plus hosting) to do this. XBlade-Scene is a prime example of what NOT to do.

Our prediction — (Our rant) - The majority of experienced private torrenters will agree that any aspiring ’siteop/owners’ who opts to use TSSE (templateshares) as a backbone to a torrent tracker are taking the easy way out. Heck, there are free options like Gazelle, and default TBDev (but expect to put in some hard work coupled with exceptional knowledge of HTML and PHP). The TSSE "tracker in a can" costs about $80 and another $70 to get it configured within the sysop-supplied server/VPS. Our beef is not with the price - it’s a viable option for those who have little or no knowledge of how to set up a tracker on their own (or otherwise can’t even be bothered). Many new startups use TSSE and have enjoyed enormous success in their own right whereas others have not.

But in XBlade’s situation, the money was wasted. Expect FAIL, and fast - unless they can kick off those public trackers.

Stay tuned for Part II, due out in a couple of days!



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