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Tommy311

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Hello FileSharingTalk,

We are starting a new tracker website. It has been completely written from the ground up. (It does not use the TBDev codebase) We are looking for staff members to; start the community, help decide on policies, decide the way the site will become available to other users(invites, open sign-up, etc..), moderators for the forums and website, content uploaders, etc.

We have a need for someone with experience in cascading style sheets to work on different skins for the website. We have a default one, but would like to offer more to our users, and do not want to tax our main programmer that designed the default skin.

We are looking for maybe 5-6 people with the skills and abilities we have listed. If you are interested please PM me with any relevant information and I maybe be able to give you more information on our website.
 
I may be able to help, just one question though what will the content of the tracker be? If it's just another 0day I have little interest if it has a unique idea behind it I would be more willing to help.
 
Lots of questions to answer. In no particular order;

Well, it's kind of hard to prove without showing you the code, and for the time being we want to keep it closed.

Don't you need a top-notch "server" computer so that you can handle any of the website processes, in addition to a large hard drive, possibly about a couple of Terabytes, maybe even more, for the torrents themselves.
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Not really, trackers just allow users to communicate between each other. The data transferred is minimal. Lots of memory is more valuable because you want to keep your seed/peer list in a binary tree. Or some other kind of fast access data structure.

just out of pure curiosity, why have you chosen to write a tracker from the grounds up and not use the tbdev/gazelle templates? Which programming languages have you used to do so?
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We decided to write everything from the ground up because we were not pleased with the codebase that tbdev or gazelle offered. We also wanted a more object oriented approach, making it much easier to add new features, etc.

We have opted to use a PHP frontend powered by 2 levels of caching (local, and memcached). With the ability to use an abstract database technology, we currently run on Oracle. Our tracker is written with C with Non-blocking I/O.

If you want a piece of advice from someone who have been around a bit and knows the sort of people who roam these forums, you would be better off looking for staffers and especially people who are proficient in coding/styling a tracker elsewhere.
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Logistics is more of a concern to us at the moment then programming. We have a decent stylesheet and 2 programmers that have been working on the software for a little while now. We are mostly looking for people who can contribute to the growth of the website (seeders, etc..) and suggest new features.

May I ask who exactly are the "we" you were referring to, and what experience do you and your current staff have in coding/staffing a tracker?
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We have 2 programmers working on the website. At the moment the website and tracker are completely functional. The programming aspect we have a lot of experience in, staffing the site is the hole we are looking to fill.

And I'd assume further they just took one of the more obscure codebases and modified it.
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No, the complete codebase was written from scratch.

I may be able to help, just one question though what will the content of the tracker be? If it's just another 0day I have little interest if it has a unique idea behind it I would be more willing to help.
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Right, we are looking for people to come up with some creative ideas to make the site unique, which our programmers will implement.
 
Nobody can pm you unless you hit 20 posts, and (I think) 15-20 days of account lifetime longevity.

Provide people with another way to contact you, or you're forced to wait. If you were to ask for my opinion, just set up a quick gmail address, and you're off.
 
Some example pages;

Stuff that isn't finished yet;
  • News management
  • User registration (invites or open?)
  • Front page stats
  • Forums

Big stuff that's done;
  • Torrent uploading and indexing
  • Searching torrents
  • Auto-seeding of popular torrents
  • User management systems (site and tracker)

And like I said, this is built completely from scratch.
 
If you want short-term help, as in start-up help, how to go about it, ideas, what to do, connections to certain people (with certain skills) you might need, what works and what doesn't in the torrent world etc. I'd be more than willing to help you. You have to know, though, I'm code-blind (doctors continue to tell me that I won't always be this way), so don't expect me to know what's possible or not right off the bat based from the code you've written.

Again, I'll echo my last message here. Provide me a different way of communicating with you. I'm not going to start talking about tracker start-ups on a public forum.
 
we ballin'

wut?

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The site reminds me of PTM. I hope it's not going to be the same in terms of content though: too many sites for that already. How will the mixed private / public work btw?
 
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