I suppose that the current drive to recruit new members to their site using open sign-up (invitation code is BITGAMER--Hint. Hint---Unless of course you know all of this already. ) as it currently stands is perhaps not just a drive to recruit new members but new members with the potential to also donate money.
Last edited by SealLion; 17.01.13 at 00:39.
"God, from the mount Sinai
whose grey top shall tremble,
He descending, will Himself,
in thunder, lightning, and loud trumpet’s sound,
ordain them laws".
John Milton (1608-1674) in Paradise Lost
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Oh, oh. Better use LINUX.
I don't know how new members without a seedbox can survive on TL without cheating. For new members they have a wait time so you cannot download the latest torrent with lots of leechers. By the time the wait time is over, there are very less leechers left and you won't be able to upload. Donation seems to be the only option (barring the smart guys who know how to cheat ;-) )
Waiting times and inactivity rules... they're both leftovers from a time where trackers had open signups and actual user limits. We're in 2013, they should be abolished.
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Why do they need so many servers for a torrent site that doesn't even host content?
Load balancing. Every page view and tracker announce implies database queries, and they do have lots of users (off topic: when I was a noob I thought 2000+ seeders on new torrents should be the norm, TL having been one of my very first tracker accounts). Don't know if you actually need 14 of them though.
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