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Apr 29, 2010

Tracker News: FTN & Paypal

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First text
Hey guys,

I'm really not sure how to go about this, but I'm going to try my best. As you might have noticed, we took down the donation page about a week or so ago. Truth is, we've lost access to the paypal account and haven't been able to get another functioning account working due to PayPal policy and whatnot. I won't go into details, but basically we have no way to pay our bills, even if we had the funds to do so.


As you can probably see where I'm going with this.. FTN will be going down tomorrow. It's not easy for me to be saying this, and I know a lot of you are going to be unhappy with the news, but there's really not a whole lot we can do at this point. We've had an amazing 4 years, but I'm sure we can all agree that nothing lasts forever.


It's truly been a pleasure providing this site for you guys, and I believe I speak for all staff when I say that you guys have made this place more than just a hobby for us. I'm not sure what the future holds for the torrent scene, but I'm proud to know that we were able to contribute.


Take care guys, and thanks again for everything.
 

~Brandon 

Second update

Update: 
We believe we've managed to sort something last minute, however we'll still need funding for this next month since our previous funds are frozen. I'll update you guys further on this tomorrow, but it looks like we might just pull through this. Thanks for your support  

Third update 
Due to the amount of fraudulent transactions last month, paypal decided to flag our account and found it to be nonlegit. They're not exactly willing to work with us on the situation. Just because I made the news post the day b4 we were issued cancellation doesn't mean we gave up that day. We've been trying to sort this for a while now 

Still waiting on an update from our hosting company. The second that's all cleared up, I'll update the donation page and you guys can jump in. I'll update further when that time comes. 

Fourth update


Cool! FTN has its new life.
Hey guys,

I felt I'd make this a new news post so you were all aware in case you don't use the index page as your bookmark.

The good news is, we're still here! We've setup a new paypal account, and were loaned the money for the server that was supposed to go down today.


So what happens next? Well.. Since we had to start with a fresh account and our previous funds are frozen in the old account.. we've pretty much got 0 funds, so ftn is now in your hands. If you can help, we'd absolutely appreciate it. Please don't feel obligated though, at the end of the day this is still just a website and I don't want ftn to be the cause of you going hungry.


Thank you in advance for your support, and for keeping your fingers crossed.
 
Now lets get back to normal!

~B

PS: We're working on a solution to prevent this from happening in the future. Also, we're aware of the error you might be seeing. We're experiencing some latency issues right now, but they should resolve themselves. 


Last update 
You guys are amazing. Seriously, the fact that you love this place enough to get our funding up in little over a day is absolutely beyond flattering and truly makes me proud that FTN means that much to you. You guys pulled through on your end and myself and the staff are truly grateful for your generosity. As you may already have guessed, the site will go on, thanks to you. I always said we had the best members, and you guys have proved that.

On a side note, I took down the donations page temporarily since we went over our 100% goal. From now on, I'll be taking the link down once we reach our goal to ensure we don't go over and raise any more flags with paypal. I also plan on changing the way we do things a bit, and paying our bill a month in advance to ensure we always have a month to fall back on, and to keep as few currency in our paypal at any point in time as possible.

Thank you SO much, and I promise we'll put twice as much effort into this place now that we all realize both how much it means to us, and how much it means to you.

~B  

Apr 25, 2010

Invite forums: Etiv.in Irc interviews open

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Irc interview: Server: irc.etiv.in Channel: #interview
Etiv.in have opened their IRC interview channel again so if you want to be a member here's your chance.
It's very simple if you don't cheat, trade or scam you are welcome to join. 

Apr 18, 2010

Open Signups: VIPmusic

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[USERLIMIT REACHED, SIGNUP CLOSED]
Registered users: 11,000
Torrents: 43,927
If you don't have What or Waffles you should check this one out.

Categories
Acoustic, Alternative, Ambient, Avantgarde, Bass, Beat, Blues,Classical, Collections, Country, Dance, Dance Hall, Drum&Bass, ElectronicFolk, Funk, Hardcore Electronic, Hardcore Punk, Hip-Hop, House, Indie,Industrial, Instrumental, Jazz, Lo-Fi, Metal, Oldies, Other,Pop, Psychedelic, Punk, R&B, Rap, Reggae, Rock,Ska, Soul, Soundtrack, Techno, Trance, Video|MDVDR, Video|MVID


Music is uploaded into a great number of categories so whatever music you like you should fine it here.
All uploads are scene releases except collections witch only uploades + can upload (upload must be approved by staff first. You must be connectable if you want to upload.

Apr 17, 2010

Etiv.in Co-Sysop in County jail on a charge related to marijuana.

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This have already been mentioned by Filesharefreak 
So i'm just going to wish Frylock the best of luck and hopefully he will be out of there as soon as possible. A lot of people have wondered what he was up to, it's not every day a Sysop on any kind of site is gone over 11 days. 
"Worse case scenario I will be away for about a year but with some LUCK I will be out in about a month."

Apr 14, 2010

Open Signups: 4HD Trackers

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Name: Seed-bytes
Start bonus : You get 50GB
Total Members  1,845
Torrents 1,545
The speeds are okay but they definitively need more users so the activity increase.

Name: HDahoy
Maximum Users: 10,000
Enabled Users: 7,928
Torrents: 2,144
Start bonus: You get 10GB  + 1 invite
Categories are: Movies, TV, Documentaries, Music videos, XXX & Other.
Good amount of seeders here and speeds are not bad at all and they have a seedbonus system in use.
I think this one is the best one of the 4.
Name: Blu-Torrents
Users Registered 3,174
Torrents: 180
Start bonus: You get 100GB 
Speeds are okay but they need more users to increase the activity on the site.
Name: HDspace
Members: 17177
Torrents: 2394
Start bonus: 2GB
They have a seedbonus system in use witch allways is welcomed on HD trackers especially for users with slow upload speed or bandwidth caps.
Categories: 
Blu-Ray, HD-DVD, Movies 720p, Movies 1080p, HDTV 720p, HDTV 1080p, Doc 720p 
Doc 1080p, Animation 720p, Animation 1080p, HQ Audio, Music Videos, XXX 720p, XXX 1080p  Trailers, Software, Other

Apr 10, 2010

Open Signups: Cinemageddon

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 Cinemageddon is a great tracker if you are looking for rarer/older movies. They currently have ~25000 registered users & almost 42000 torrents. They have a bonus system witch is great for people with slow upload speeds called "credits" witch you can use to buy upload credit, VIP, or custom titles.
Irc: Server: irc.cinemageddon.org Channel: #cinemageddon
If you are looking for a site that indexes the less known, older & rarer movies don't hesitate to try this one out.


Apr 9, 2010

Tracker Review: Iplay.ro

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There's alot of good words about Iplay around the net and they deserve it, this is without a doubt a great tracker. Lots of people saying it's a hard tracker to meet the ratio requirements but they upload a fair amount of 50% download torrents and Freeleech torrents so even people with slow upload connection should be able to survive there. Their design is possibly the best one around. They have torrents separated into 3 categories, Browse, Music & Adult and it to is a nice touch. They also have an English forum section for those who not speak Romanian. Because they allow people to sign up with trial accounts now i thought i was a good idea to make a review for those who are thinking about signing up.

Apr 7, 2010

Invite forums: Index

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A lot of people use invite forums in the hope of getting into those sites they cant find invites to. There are many forums on the net and in this post i will try to cover most of them so you know witch ones you should stay away from and witch ones who is a little more secure. First things first: Trackers in general don't like invite forums and their is allways a risk of getting banned if you are giving away invites. Trading invites is no better (the opposite actually) and people doing it is punished harder in nearly every case. So forums witch allow trading is of course a big no no if you don't want to risk loosing you account/s.
Here comes the list of some of the most used/well known forums.

Apr 6, 2010

Tracker Review: iConsole

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iConsole is a pretty new tracker dedicated to console & pc games. The competition in that category can be hard when trackers like BG, Bcg, UG & Ntorrents is around. So far around 3100 people have joined the site and they are currently indexing 260 torrents. They have a chat in their navigation menu but no information about Irc a channel on the site.

Apr 5, 2010

Open Signups: HDCity

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HDCity is a Chinese tracker specialized in high definition TV shows and movies. Site navigation is in English and their is an English forum section for those who don't understand Chinese.
There is a great seedbonus system in use and alot of x2 upload & freeleech files so people with slow connections shouldn't have a problem to keep a good ratio there. This tracker is a good one and thanks to English site navigation it's just as easy to use as any other site.
Signup URL:(check the box and choose English in the upper right corner) http://www.hdcity.org/signup.php
English sign up page:(fully translated) User Signup (English)
Here is a quick look at the latest torrents.
They have the following categories: 
Movies, Documentarys, Anime, Tv series, Tv shows, Music, Sport, Misc, HQ Audio & PSP.
And their stats:

Apr 3, 2010

Invite forums: Bratva

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(Ignore the text on the banner it should say Bratva)
Bratva have been around for some time now but it's just recently that they opened up. I'm not sure the forum is completely finished but signups are now working. So what is Bratva? Well it's related to www.thehiddenarchive.com & http://www.bratva.ws/

Their is only 33 members so far and the forum is still inactive but with a user boost that should change pretty quickly. I couldn't find any rules/stats for the site but they probably are:
*No trading
* No minimum posts to access invite section
* No no-movement list
* No rep system in use (don't know if this will be added later on)
This is how it looks:


Apr 2, 2010

Invite forums: Etiv.in still down

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Update3: Site is up again. and with a new nice dark theme aswell.
Etiv is still having problem with corrupted database. They are working on the problem. If you are a member on Etiv you have probably noticed that you can't access the site. However their IRC is working well know (it had a life of its own for a while) so you can still jump in their and get updates (or chat if you fancy that). 

IRC: [ S: irc.etiv.in | C: #Etiv ] [P] ********

UPDATE: Back online but the most recent working backup was from January 30th users can except a big loss in posts & reputation.
Update2: They managed to fix a backup from March 26 but all the posts were screwed up so site is down again.