Testing vBulletin Tracker system
 

Hopefully falkon2's indomitable spirit will see our first torrent through:

(NOTE: RESET YOUR PASSKEY FIRST BEFORE DOWNLOADING)

Pop'n Music 14 FEVER test
 

Gears of War: The Soundtrack (FLAC)
 

Let's give a shot. If it doesn't work, I blame my ISP and will switch. =o

Let's see if I'm doing this right =x.

edit:
I can't tell if it's working or not, I'll try again later.

I don't see the torrent link in the navbar. Is this usergroup based?

This thread needs more Soul:

/test

Anything you don't want guests to see is most likely usergroup-based. Anyway, I don't see it either so us grumpy ex-mods are SOL.

I see it, and it works! :33333 Blah

Die Hard Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (FLAC)
 

EDIT: Apparently you have to enter the name of the torrent in the title of your post in order for it to show up on this page.

Also, Blah fucking rules. <3

Intense props Blah, this shit is awesome. Really digging the stats page. I can see this growing into a very resourceful, er, resource.

America Fuck Yeah
 

Giving this a try.

Do we have to register for this tracker?

Yes, you 'register' by resetting your passkey.

SS, torrent link should show up for you now.

Pretty nifty. *randomly gets sued a month later*

Awesome, Blah. Thanks a shitload for putting this up.

The only thing is we'll eventually need to find a way to organize these, and possibly have a small subforum for uploading them, or something. I have plenty of ideas, but I don't know how feasible they are with this hack. If you give enough of a shit that you want me to list them, just say so.

(I'm in no way ungrateful, I'm just making suggestions. Fucking A+ shit as it stands already.)

Sure, lay them all out. I've got another day or two to implement them before I go on holiday.

Sorry, this is massive. I apologize in advance for sounding demanding, though that's not what I'm trying to do.

• Heavier stat tracking. On each member, if possible. Perhaps have the stats display in the user profile, or, preferablly, have a seperate user page for each member that lists things like ratio, uploaded/downloaded totals, and a list of torrents they're either seeding or uploaded. Things of that nature.
  
• Access to these stats from some simple common area. Perhaps on the username drop down list? Perhaps in the post bit, underneath level, it'll say something like "ratio: x.yz", and it's clickable to take you to said page.
  
• Torrent organization. A way to categorize your torrent, and likewise, a way to browse by these categories. "FLAC", "MP3", "Other Lossy", "Video", and the like.
  
• Individual torrent description pages. Something when uploading the torrent that you can add that says whatever you want it to say. A title is sometimes not descriptive enough. Someone could upload something as Bokujou Monogatari Gameboy Original Sound Collection, and your average asshat will probably not know that's a Harvest Moon soundtrack. It'll also allow for people to mention how something was ripped, or perhaps give an extraction log. (I really liked this feature in GFTracker, the ability to attach logs to the description pages. Made checking for proper rips easier.)
  
• Continuing from there, I like the little catagories in the attachment window, who's doing what for the torrent currently and so forth. Sexy times are had by all there. Very nice. Perhaps a central area for seeing these stats on afformentioned description pages?
  
• Comments, on said description pages. Someone could say "You got XYZ incorrect" or something, like if the uploader typo'd something or got the tracklist wrong or whatnot.
  
• Perhaps a way to automatically obtain passkeys for those who don't have them. Perhaps if someone doesn't already have one, on their next login, they automatically recieve one. Dunno if that's possible or not due to not having any knowledge of how this is integrated with vB.
  
• Torrent browsing, not just by category, like above, but the orphaned/all/top/latest is nice, but perhaps things like "show only seeded torrents", and such could be added there. Alternatively, when in the actual list of torrents in whatever catagory/filter, clickable headers that organize by date/seeders/leechers/speed/whateverthefuck.
  
• A place to keep torrent threads, perhaps a My Stuff subforum?

That's all I got for now. I'll think of something else, I'm sure. Question, though. I guess administration can be done by any mod who deletes an attachment, eh? "This torrent is actually a gig of pictures of poop" or something ends up happening and someone can just nuke it or recatagorize it if we end up allowing for a "lulz" category or whatever. That sort of thing could be a problem, so it should be doable like that, right? If so, an ability to warn mods for torrent faggotry or something would be spiffy. Or we'll just use the existing warning system. Whatever.

Edit: Also, ratio for pure uploads should be read as infinite, not the same ratio as the previous seeder on the list. (See my and Tails ratios being reported as the same as Ben's and yours, above on the Gears torrent.)

edit edit: pictar

http://colonelskills.belkanairforce....finteratio.gif

These are actually default features, but I've temporarily disabled them while I pretty it up. I'll turn them back on soon.

I suppose adding a tag field will take care of that.


We could have a link to a central torrent description page, yes, but I feel comments can be posted in the torrent thread itself. Maybe the central torrent description page will have a "thread review" style listing of the replies in the thread.

As for logs, you can attach them together with the .torrent file. I'll check to see if it needs to be added to the recognized filetype list.

Yeah, I'll put in something for this. The software is supposed to generate passkeys for everyone upon installation but I removed that bit since we have like thousands of people here and I didn't want PHP to time out.

This will take a while, I guess.

We'll probably allocate somewhere in the My Stuff forum for torrents (or maybe use a thread tag). Also, torrent moderation is a matter of deleting the attachment, yes.

I'll try to fix that seeder ratio bug.

Okey doke. I'll wait to see what you've got cookin' before commenting further.

One more bug, though. On the general stats page that is up there currently, the fastest/slowest torrent lists are TEH BROKAN. Gears is on fastest torrent three times, hatepissannoy on slowest 4 times.

I'm loving the fact that this was added, but will our server be able to support it? There's no chance of another financial fiasco, is there?

I hate to rain on the parade, but I've found it's best to err on the side of caution with Gamingforce. =D

Ohhhh, the over 9000 ratio is AWESOME.

I'm getting an ascii boner just thinking about it. <3

8==========D

Touhou Concert
 

Testing multiple trackers with a Touhou concert...
http://foxyshadis.slightlydark.com/r...uCoverScan.jpg

Final Fantasy Concert - VOICES
 

Okay Weeaboos, most popular thing on my tracker by far.

It's very unlikely, since all the server is doing is hosting the torrent files (which could be hosted anywhere,) and just acting as the tracker, which tells your BitTorrent client who is connected, so you can connect to them.

Basically, very low bandwidth stuff.

Basically, could have just read how BitTorrent trackers work to get the answer yourself.

Hmm. I think this is a really great idea, but I guess it'll depend a lot on the amount of users who take up this service.

EDIT: I seem to get some passkey error? I did the whole reset passkey thing though. Any idea as to what I'm doing wrong?

The passkey error is: Failure: vBTT v3.0: This is not YOUR passkey!！！

If you've reset your passkey more than once, you'll have to download the .torrent files over again to ensure they're encoded with the right passkeys.

I think you should move the "Reset passkey" link away from "Tracker Stats" in the menu. My clumsy fingers have caused me to nearly click the "Reset passkey" instead of the other. Tricksy buttons :(

I'll move it into the UserCP. Going to write a script to generate passkeys for all active users.

Hmm. I did redownload the torrent files after I accidentally clicked it. But still no go.

Open up the torrent file and check whether the key after the announce.php URL is the same as the one I PM'ed you.

Nope. It's not. I PMed you the one I had...

EDIT: Kinda works now. Thanks a lot Bigblah!

Basically, could have decided not to be a jerk and deleted this and pretended you weren't Merv for a minute.

This looks like a great idea, excellent work Blah! I'm very eager to see what this'll bring us in the future.

think you can fix that minimum postcount setting for the hide tag now? =D

Mo0, he could have easily have said "Google it, retard monkey." but he didn't. =/

Also, this looks pretty sweet. =))

Well, that would've had redeeming humor value! As it is it's just mean.

Also yeah, it does. =o

Monkeys make everything funny. =)

User tracker stats are now shown in the postbit as well as the profile page.

Voices currently has over four billion seeders. :o

FIX IT CHZ

How come Tails has a ratio of 5,046.93

IS THIS A GLITCH.

Well, I see two possible solutions. The first would be for me to seed the torrent, making the number roll back over to 0. However, since I can't run BT on campus, that won't work. :(

So I guess you'll just have to give me root server access. :(

http://www.quiteajolt.com/gff/math.jpg

Finally, a reason to visit Gamingforce.

Can I get some FLAC rips.

Of course I will seed depending on my mood.

EEEEAAAAUUUUUAAAAHHHH
 

It gets cached by the browser. It can be fixed in vbb but it'd take some custom hacking. Just clear your cache if it happens again or edit the announce url in your torrent client.

@Chz loooooooooooooooooool I didn't think it would be this popular

blah, I think I know what it happened, it started seeding as an unregistered torrent, and after registering it never incremented the seed count. Had no problem decrementing, obviously. Why is beyond me, guess I should have stopped it first.

btw mine are only active from 5p-8a PST.

So, I am not really knowledgeable about torrents and trackers and things, but I use'em.

And this is, quite possibly, the best addition to GFF since the journals. Maybe even better.

If I could prop Blah's work a million times over, I would.

DJ_Krush-Code_4109
 

Testing, with some nice music for those of you who are interested;

So, I'm not sure if this came through with the last update, or whether it was due to the addition of the tracker stats, but I've noticed that several profile pages are essentially broken.

I can't identify a particular pattern to this glitch either. I see that Killy, Celes Chere, and magi's profile pages turns up just fine, but mine, Night Phoenix, and sprouticus's don't(random selections).

Edit:
Also, there is a bug in the tracker system. I can still download torrents, despite the fact that I deleted the passkey from the announce URL.

Fixed the template.

Are you sure it's a bug packrat? You know torrents can still download if you have enough info on peers, even if you can't connect to the tracker, right? Also, if you're downloading foxy's Voices torrent, that one has multiple trackers so it doesn't count.

There might be something running behind the scenes then. I'm only aware of the most basic of concepts behind bittorrent. I'm no CS. :(

All I know is that I downloaded the GoW torrent Tails uploaded, removed the passkey from the announce URL before doing anything else, and now I'm downloading at full speed from all seeders.

If you connect once almost all clients will cache peers, even if you stop and restart after changing it. uTorrent and Azureus will dump peers if you change the announce URL on a private tracker, but this one tracker's too lame to even have a private option, let alone send it. (You need encrypted torrent files for one.) Bitcomet won't do shit since it's made to be a leech client. :p

Then again, since it lets you track unregistered torrents, it's probably buggy enough to not properly validate the passkey all the time. Wouldn't surprise me at all.

The tracker will reject you anyhow. Check your tracker status in uTorrent.

Foxy, announce.php checks the string length of passkey, before anything else. A fix will be coming to prevent unregistered torrents.

Additional Spam:
Tracker disabled because it's insecure as shit.

Will work on integrating phpbttracker+ instead when I get back from vacation, which is in 3 weeks. Thanks for testing!

Somehow, according to the tracker I had over 9000 trillion ratio and under negative 5 billion at the same time. I guess that's what happens when you upload 10 exabytes (18 zeros).

loooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooool

I hope phpbttracker can handle even larger numbers.

:banned:

Sweet, chz saved it

Foxy is hereby forever banned from having nice things

Owned like hell.

You were the one who said you were shutting it down and scrapping it anyway, such an opportunity couldn't be wasted. ;_;

I hope the other one is a bit more structurally sound actually, hilariously broken isn't as fulfilling as subtly broken, and an actual working tracker here is awesome++.

THIS TRACKER IS RATED
OUTFOXED BY KOIFOX