Testing vBulletin Tracker system

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DOWNLOADING INSTRUCTIONS:

Click on Torrents (on your navbar) -> Reset Passkey. You only need to do this once. If you click on it again, you'll have to redownload all your .torrent files..

Download the .torrent attached in this post, and see if it works.

UPLOADING INSTRUCTIONS:

Create a torrent. Any torrent. Some clients like uTorrent can do it for you.

Set the announce URL to this:
http://www.gamingforce.org/forums/announce.php

Attach your brand new .torrent file to a thread or post.

This is important: Re-download the torrent you just attached. This will encode your passkey in the torrent file.

Seed as normal.

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

(NOTE: RESET YOUR PASSKEY FIRST BEFORE DOWNLOADING)

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Yes, you 'register' by resetting your passkey.

SS, torrent link should show up for you now.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

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

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

Originally Posted by 2401 Penitent Tangent

• Heavier stat tracking
• Access to these stats

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

Originally Posted by 2401 Penitent Tangent

• Torrent organization

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

Originally Posted by 2401 Penitent Tangent

• Individual torrent description pages
• central area for seeing these stats
• Comments, on said description pages

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.

Originally Posted by 2401 Penitent Tangent

• Perhaps a way to automatically obtain passkeys for those who don't have them.

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.

Originally Posted by 2401 Penitent Tangent

• Torrent browsing, clickable headers

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.

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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 was speaking idiomatically.

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

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

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.

FELIPE NO

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

What, you don't want my bikini-clad body?

FIX IT CHZ

Jam it back in, in the dark.

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.

How ya doing, buddy?

Originally Posted by packrat

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.

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!

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

Foxy is hereby forever banned from having nice things

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