Torrent encouragement Cmon guys.

[Smkiller]

I do have to be honest, I much prefer the direct hosting links (megaupload, mediafire, etc.), since the torrents relies too much on other people for you to be able to get the files. And with the few torrent files that I had attempted to get from here, there were barely any seeders, and I ended up having to give up on downloading the files because it would have taken much too long.

With the direct hosting, it's all right there in one neat lil' package, and you don't have to much rely on everyone else that has it to be online or be seeding it still. It's just... there.

[Agmundr]

I do have to be honest, I much prefer the direct hosting links (megaupload, mediafire, etc.), since the torrents relies too much on other people for you to be able to get the files. And with the few torrent files that I had attempted to get from here, there were barely any seeders, and I ended up having to give up on downloading the files because it would have taken much too long.

With the direct hosting, it's all right there in one neat lil' package, and you don't have to much rely on everyone else that has it to be online or be seeding it still. It's just... there.

I prefer torents when downloading, cause they have no download limit, and it's free and pretty unattended.
No waiting times, because of for example megaupload's limits and having to enter captcha codes.

But I don't know how to upload torrents and which trackers to use yet though

for uploading direct hosts are easier but for downloading Torrents

[Smkiller]

Easier for uploading, but also easier for downloading, in my opinion. While it's true that torrents don't have a download limit or waiting times between downloads, it still, more often than not with stuff I try to find via torrents, takes forever to download, mostly because other people are too unreliable when it comes to that sort of thing.

So, a download limit to me is no problem. We're getting the stuff for free, so why complain about something as simple as that? Limit or not, it's basically guaranteed that you're going to get it, since you don't have to rely on other people (other than the uploader, so he can upload it. Duh.) to be able to get it.

Overall, seems more convenient to me.

[Agmundr]

Easier for uploading, but also easier for downloading, in my opinion. While it's true that torrents don't have a download limit or waiting times between downloads, it still, more often than not with stuff I try to find via torrents, takes forever to download, mostly because other people are too unreliable when it comes to that sort of thing.

So, a download limit to me is no problem. We're getting the stuff for free, so why complain about something as simple as that? Limit or not, it's basically guaranteed that you're going to get it, since you don't have to rely on other people (other than the uploader, so he can upload it. Duh.) to be able to get it.

Overall, seems more convenient to me.

I don't know about uploading by torrents, I have ran a metal forum before using only mediafire links.
But forgot to turn off the google bot. which resulted in all links getting killed. So I quit the project.

But yea, I experienced some problems, which was indeed too many leechers too less seeders.

The solution to my problem would be buying a megaupload account.
The cash is probaly the problem at the moment.
It's still cheaper than buying CD's though which I would totally do if I had a job and wasn't spending all my cash on my girlfriend and musical gear.

[vit]

And with the few torrent files that I had attempted to get from here, there were barely any seeders, and I ended up having to give up on downloading the files because it would have taken much too long.

Why didn't you ask for a reseed ?

[sylfreak]

Ive always been vocal about my preference for torrents.  I much prefer being able to choose exactly what I am downloading, and to see what I am downloading before getting it.  I do not like downloading RARs where I am forced to take everything, and do not actually know what is contained within the file.  I always like the fact that with torrents if my internet connection dies I am not forced to restart.  Lastly, I feel that torrents, due to the fact that you have to share and keep seeding, give a much better community feeling to the website.  When we were a torrent only website there was a much stronger feeling of community and accomplishment here.  We are still a fairly close knit community, but we seem to be becoming a simple repository for hundreds of random links rather than a group with a purpose.
Just my 2 cents.  

[Smkiller]

And with the few torrent files that I had attempted to get from here, there were barely any seeders, and I ended up having to give up on downloading the files because it would have taken much too long.

Why didn't you ask for a reseed ?

I did. As an alternative, I also asked if it were possible to have it uploaded to a direct hosting site. And they did such.

[laughingdead]

My net is so shitty that I prefer using torrents when sharing files because of the timeouts I get uploading.... However I prefer using file sharing sites to download because they last longer than torrents usually... If you ran a private tracker and enforced a ratio system but also encouraged with a point system (points for uploads and points for seeding for a certain time to be used to increase ratio) you might get longer life out of your torrents... Since this community already is semi-private and hates leeching that would be a good choice... However setting up a tracker system requires you to be on a server that has more than 10 concurrent connection ports open and allows torrents... Since faggots in american government have made it difficult for torrent sites you will have to put it in russia or singapore haha OR you could run your own dedicated server if you know how to do such things...

[Agmundr]

My net is so shitty that I prefer using torrents when sharing files because of the timeouts I get uploading.... However I prefer using file sharing sites to download because they last longer than torrents usually... If you ran a private tracker and enforced a ratio system but also encouraged with a point system (points for uploads and points for seeding for a certain time to be used to increase ratio) you might get longer life out of your torrents... Since this community already is semi-private and hates leeching that would be a good choice... However setting up a tracker system requires you to be on a server that has more than 10 concurrent connection ports open and allows torrents... Since faggots in american government have made it difficult for torrent sites you will have to put it in russia or singapore haha OR you could run your own dedicated server if you know how to do such things...

I would setup a tracker if I only had a dedi.

[laughingdead]

I would be willing to post torrents... Ill see whats not in here and put some up in the coming week...

[VicerExciser206]

I'm not touching torrents until I get my own connection. Getting all sort of emails from my IP about torrent usage 

[Zombie]

I'm not touching torrents until I get my own connection. Getting all sort of emails from my IP about torrent usage 

Glad I'm not alone.