What.cd Upgrades

**BrianBosworth** · 28.02.10, 20:42

Latest from What.cd:

Around 12 hours ago, the What.CD dev team proudly released Gazelle RC2. What.CD has been running on RC2 for a long time now, but this is the first time in over a year where we're released a new public version of our code.

The reason for the delay is that we were busy finishing our rewrite of the site backend, and didn't want to release a fractured codebase. This sort of delay won't happen again though - RC2 is now released in nightly builds, copied straight from the What.CD codebase (with a couple of automatic edits).

The major changes in RC2 include:

* The removal of torrent_hash and inclusion of sphinx for searching
* Site-wide cache updates instead of expirations
* A completely rewritten BBCode parser
* Tight integration with an IRC network (Drone included), especially for debugging
* The collector - a parting gift from A9, who originally didn't want to release the code
* Reportsv2, which makes handling reports much more streamlined
* A couple thousand other things

Translation- they are probably up to something as usual. Even with taking all the necessary precautions to prevent them from tracking your history, I just don't feel safe when browsing the site.

**SBfreak** · 28.02.10, 20:51

A couple thousand other things

I wonder if this release includes scripts...

**anon** · 28.02.10, 20:52

"Cheater evasion" is never included due to obvious reasons.

**GotIt** · 01.03.10, 10:46

They upgraded long ago, and as the article says, they're only releasing it now. So even if they did upgrade anti-cheating scripts, most cheating methods still work and havnt been stopped, so everything seems to be fine

**saebrtooth** · 01.03.10, 14:00

Originally Posted by GotIt

They upgraded long ago, and as the article says, they're only releasing it now. So even if they did upgrade anti-cheating scripts, most cheating methods still work and havnt been stopped, so everything seems to be fine

Gotit you must have an account there to know that. Can u post the same announcement with the original time stamp?

**Drmr** · 01.03.10, 16:22

Originally Posted by saebrtooth

Gotit you must have an account there to know that. Can u post the same announcement with the original time stamp?

Here si original announcement

**Aurion** · 08.03.10, 04:32

Well, they're always up to something in their back kitchen, but I've never witnessed anything extraordinary about their upgrades ... just like any other security or major upgrade, they won't turn their scripts to another 50 years ahead generation.

**anon** · 08.03.10, 17:09

Originally Posted by Aurion

I've never witnessed anything extraordinary about their upgrades ...

The changes that affect us the most aren't made public

**shadoweave** · 14.03.10, 08:38

I'm pretty sure they updated their cheating scripts, seeing as how I got disabled recently despite not changing any settings from a month back...

**GotIt** · 14.03.10, 08:51

Originally Posted by shadoweave

I'm pretty sure they updated their cheating scripts, seeing as how I got disabled recently despite not changing any settings from a month back...

Many times getting caught is you being unlucky.

What settings and torrent was cheated on etc?

**shadoweave** · 14.03.10, 10:14

Originally Posted by GotIt

Many times getting caught is you being unlucky.

What settings and torrent was cheated on etc?

I suppose so. What.CD invites are rather troublesome to get though.

I was trying my luck with one of the Office 2010 torrents that had quite a few seeders/leechers. Pretty basic settings, used Fake Upload with Intelligent Mode, Show you as a seeder. Speeds were about 15-30KB/s.

**anon** · 14.03.10, 16:46

Originally Posted by shadoweave

I suppose so. What.CD invites are rather troublesome to get though.

It depends - if your country isn't banned from IRC, you can do the interview. It's the best way to get an invite if you don't know anyone who has one and are willing to make some effort for yourself.

I was trying my luck with one of the Office 2010 torrents

I'm assuming they were Scene releases? (Can't check now)

**shadoweave** · 14.03.10, 17:17

Originally Posted by anon

It depends - if your country isn't banned from IRC, you can do the interview. It's the best way to get an invite if you don't know anyone who has one and are willing to make some effort for yourself.

I'm assuming they were Scene releases? (Can't check now)

That's the thing, my country is banned, so I can't do the interview. And yeah, I believe they were.