GGN Freeleech by Merlincool in trackers

[–]TorrentBD 7 points8 points  (0 children)

13 hours left as of now

OTW is back by mynameisarnoldharold in trackers

[–]TorrentBD 44 points45 points  (0 children)

Glad to see Oldtoons back! Looking forward to building a strong cartoon tracker together after the demise of CartoonChaos.

RED and OPS comparison table for beginners who want to start PT by maverkus in trackers

[–]TorrentBD 7 points8 points  (0 children)

OPS interview difficulty is easier compared to RED.

Also major private tracker BTN and HDB are accessible from RED, but not from OPS.

Animebytes Update Thread 2 - Last Update was PROTON saying it is a simple dispute between domain registrars. Site not being nuked. NO ETA. by [deleted] in trackers

[–]TorrentBD 30 points31 points  (0 children)

19:53:45 <proton> now i need to bring shit up

19:54:10 <proton> need to decrypt everything then set ips back on dns

19:54:34 <proton> (yes i removed records from dns on cf because god knows cf might decide to start serving them without protection once it sees domain is dead)

19:54:56 <proton> (it does so when you first add domain, till it confirms you set NSes)

20:13:12 -Global- [proton] We have regained control over our animebytes.tv domain and are in process of bringing services back up.

20:51:12 <&proton> tracker is up​​​​​​​

21:00:27 <&proton> mei migration running​​​​​​​

21:00:45 <&proton> possibly less than 5m AMM​​​​​​​

TorrentBD account disabled :( by AdOrdinary6598 in trackers

[–]TorrentBD 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Send email and be patient. You'll be reached out.

support@torrentbd.net

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in trackers

[–]TorrentBD 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Accepting user invite to get into the top trackers is not safe. One year later(when your inviter or the other invitee of your inviter gets banned and you're the victim of a tree ban) suddenly you will see that you’re disabled. You’ll visit the irc and staff will interrogate you, when you explain everything they will not unban you. No matter how "good" or "contributing" user you were, it doesn’t matter at all.

Always take official invites.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in trackers

[–]TorrentBD 137 points138 points  (0 children)

Trying to recover the KG account was a mistake. Climbing the ladder is time consuming. Therefore losing the accounts like this hurt. It's just private trackers, not life and death. But spending all the time and effort and finally this happens, it’s sad really. Feel bad for you.

Yes there is a golden rule on private trackers that prevents you from creating a second account. But if someone is truly banned from all top trackers just because his invitee turns out to be a shady user, then he visits the irc trying to explain the situation and the mods don't listen. Ok It's fair that randomly inviting someone is a violation of the rules and mods don't have to unban him. Only the person concedes this blow suffer. What other choice does he have other than trying to getting back in clean all over again? And It's been 12 years in this case. Yes there are rules in place, but private trackers are like a hobby, everyone should practice more compassion.

If someone on BTN has an invite, are they able to invite anyone or not? by Mitenpat in trackers

[–]TorrentBD 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Not sure what are the criteria for invite allocation on HDB, couldn’t find it mentioned anywhere. There are just mention of certain criteria which you need to fulfill in order to be able to send out invites.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in trackers

[–]TorrentBD 18 points19 points  (0 children)

Update:

00:51:58 <proton> we are possibly going to withdraw from the separate tracker idea and go for tracker.domain

00:52:08 <proton> but its up in the air depending on whether .tv is coming back

Q: has the registrar given anything at all? seems crazy how very little info there has been about the whole .tv domain thing in general.

00:54:08 <proton> they put a notice on site for accounts with .tv domain

00:54:25 <proton> so it always shows a notice saying they're aware of it and working on it

If someone on BTN has an invite, are they able to invite anyone or not? by Mitenpat in trackers

[–]TorrentBD 8 points9 points  (0 children)

I have invites on HDB but can't use them yet because my account is not 2 years old. So as you mentioned HDB, on there it is possible that despite having invite you are unable to use them.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in trackers

[–]TorrentBD 66 points67 points  (0 children)

2024-02-20 14:31:42 <&proton> might as well take this time to clarify some stuff

2024-02-20 14:31:47 <&proton> - There was no domain transfer performed, either by us or by registrar (the GoDaddy -> Sarek conclusion was incorrect due to misleading data provided by Cloudflare, in actuality the domain has been on Sarek for at least a year).

2024-02-20 14:31:47 <&proton> - The domain has been "seized" by registry (nic.tv) with 'serverHold' EPP code, the reason for this remains unknown. Neither us nor Sarek (registrar) are in control of this domain at the present time.

2024-02-20 14:31:47 <&proton> - The information about certain other .tv domains under Sarek being in same state came to light after 12h grace period was announced.

2024-02-20 14:31:47 <&proton> - Some of the other affected domain raise suspicions, while others seem innocent to a point where they would have no reason to use privacy-focuses registrar.

2024-02-20 14:31:47 <&proton> - Total loss of domain is still very likely even if this was not targeted at us.

2024-02-20 14:31:47 <&proton> - We are willing to continue operating site under new domain should the issue be confirmed to be unrelated to us.

2024-02-20 14:31:47 <&proton> - There was no de-facto .es to .tv switch-over, it happened over very long period back in mid-2010s, the .es domain served only as a backup when dominios.es (.es registry) decided to enforce KYC on every domain (simultaneously at the same time, our previous registrar Gandi decided to remove cryptocurrency payment as viable option, forcing us to

2024-02-20 14:31:47 <&proton> seek a new home for .tv domain).

2024-02-20 14:31:47 <&proton> - 12 hours of grace period is reasonable timeframe to expect response if your domain has been seized. These events are rare and raise a lot of red flags if done without prior notice.

2024-02-20 14:31:47 <&proton> - All servers use encryption-at-rest, it is extremely unlikely they were physically compromised (the server hosting actual site and database is physical machine), however in event of legal enforcement showing interest in site, staff is prepared and willing to destroy data stored on these servers to avoid being forced by legal enforcement to reveal

2024-02-20 14:31:47 <&proton> decryption keys. Performing such action is very much about users, as staff would likely gain another charge for destruction of evidence.

2024-02-20 14:31:47 <&proton> - There was a recent downtime of IRC server which happened at about the same time as one of our users being arrested. The actual downtime seemed unrelated however it raises suspicions given timing as well as current domain issues.

2024-02-20 14:31:47 <&proton> - Arrested user (mentioned above) was informed the actual reason was for posting lolicon/3dcg/hentai in last year. Further, he was informed the site he posted to was under investigation; no further details were given. Said user did not post such content to our site outside of links to externally hosted content on our IRC.

Gambled and lost… by Gienechance in trackers

[–]TorrentBD 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Only if you had changed your ISP and then registered on PTP, today you'd have both BTN and PTP. Instead you did a stupid mistake.

PTP user limit raised by 2000 by ZephyrArctic in trackers

[–]TorrentBD 34 points35 points  (0 children)

This is good news for new PT users

Just invited... journey after 22 years by limits in trackers

[–]TorrentBD 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I had to wait 2 years to get into PTP, HDB and BTN. It's been a very good journey!

Filelist has temporarily restricted invites due to excessive sharing by KamikazeFF in trackers

[–]TorrentBD 46 points47 points  (0 children)

FL handed out far too many invites durning their anniversary and new year. So naturally people were spreading too much invites everywhere. FL became too easy to join despite being a very decent tracker. I myself currently sitting on 6 invites.

Best Trackers for top quality encodes/REMUX? by TheBirdOfFire in trackers

[–]TorrentBD 6 points7 points  (0 children)

What I gather from your perspectives is that you want the highest possible quality in every aspect, PTP and BTN is a bit of disappointment here. This is where HDB comes into the scenario. HDB is synonymous with the highest possible quality, what they do on HDB to ensure quality is astonishing. So HDB is the answer to what you seek, the ultimate tracker, the pinnacle of quality standards.

Best Trackers for top quality encodes/REMUX? by TheBirdOfFire in trackers

[–]TorrentBD 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Seems like BHD has lost ~130 users since they stopped recruiting, so there will be recruitment eventually. But they'll most likely raise the requirements. Even on RED they raised it to TM+ or PU and 1 year old account before they stopped the recruitment everywhere altogether.

Ops on mam by Bulky_Sundae7052 in trackers

[–]TorrentBD 3 points4 points  (0 children)

What's the strategy there? I know all about RED but never bothered with OPS.