We have merely put the login page back up so that those who were not permanently logged in can access the Forum. Click through to this full post for a link to the forum discussion.
With the changes that have come in the last year, we realize that it’s become harder to maintain ratio merely by seeding back on downloads. The rough metric we use to measure it, the seed percentage, shows a current average of seven seeders for every downloader. That makes downloads very fast, but all of that competition to seed is what’s making it difficult for some.
For now, we’ve decided to ease the burden by simply gifting everyone with some free gigabytes. Today we added 5 gig to everyone’s upload. We will continue to do so periodically, if and when necessary, until a permanent solution rolls out in the next code version.
Well we didn’t make the goal, as I’m sure you can tell by now. While that sucks, it doesn’t mean the deal’s off. What we did manage to do is bang out probably 120 man hours. In a 4 day period we likely did what would otherwise have taken 4 weeks, probably longer. Even so, after a week of fighting back spasms, we’re still dinging away at it.
The last thing I’m going to say on the subject is that the focus has changed a bit. We’ve decided to add some features. Not technically huge, but features that will have impact and will change the way you use the site. This will push the opening date by some time, but it is for good reason.
Until the next update, your thoughts are welcome.
On saturday, something blew up and search stopped working. It was dragging down the rest of the site and so it wound up needing to be rebooted. It’s rebuilt now but the end result was that the search cache was corrupted. How did that happen? Don’t know.
Yeah, that sucks.
So I think this is as good a time as any to tell you guys that Continue reading ‘Weekend problems and The Fix(x).’
Short list
- Private Messaging
- Torrent Reaper
- Some back end stuff to become more DMCA compliant.
PM system basically puts in a monitor and link-back to the forum pm system. It’s obviously better than whatever we could manage to hack up. The notifications will be at the top of the content area of the screen (you’ll know it when you see it). This also prompted redo the error/warning/info messaging system. It now makes sense and is . . . how you say . . . consistent and readable?
Torrent Reaper will remove dead torrents. At 90 days dead torrents (zero peers) are removed from the main list but remain visible to the owners and admins. This will allow the owner to get whatever info off it. 30d later, it will be deleted, never to be seen again.
DMCA compliance is the one that will scare people but it shouldn’t. You’ve probably noticed some shit the last month or so and that’s why, really. Just some back end stuff that will bring us more inline. There will be some related policy changes coming up.
Ever heard the phrase “boys don’t make passes at girls who wear glasses?” It’s fucking stupid if you ask me. They glasses are the key to the appeal. This is a girl who doesn’t need an improvement transformation; in fact, taking her glasses away is an almost surefire way to reduce her attractiveness!
The way freak week works is simple: post any torrents you have that fit the theme.
- This week’s focus tags: glasses and freak.week. Put these exact tags in your taglist so people can find the posts.
- Don’t forget to put “Freak Week!” in the title.
- It will run until October 2.
- If you know of an older post that fits this theme, link to it in the forum thread.
It’s been a while since we had one of these, and i really want to get back into doing them. They can be a lot of fun. I think we’ll do “Weird Shit” next time. The last time was like 2007 and it was funny as hell.
The torrent-reaper will be returning soon.
A reaper automatically deletes old, dead torrents. Torrents which have had zero seeds for X number of days. We haven’t decided yet what X number of days will be, but it will probably be about a week or two. Again, this will only affect dead torrents.
If you want to save screenshots or any other parts of your old upload descriptions, I advise you to do so as quickly as possible. The reaper will likely be activated as soon as the code is tested and working properly.
Discussion or comments: http://cheggit.net/forum/read.php?1,216359