The future of EG torrents
Posted: Wed Sep 09, 2015 9:09 pm
Has it really been 10 years since we launched our own tracker? We're still here... 
Over the course of the decade, torrent technology has advanced but we've been using the same old tracker. Arke and I have been keeping the old mule running, kicking her when she falls over and using large carrots to motivate her forward. It is time for something else.
We've evaluated many options and have concluded that it is time to shut the tracker down.
Don't panic!
We're modifying our existing torrents to no longer point to our tracker and going fully tracker-less. We'll also provide magnet links for these as well. This also includes new releases!
The torrents that you are currently downloading from and/or seeding will still work because your client uses DHT and PEX. This means that even without a tracker, your client is smart enough to look around for others trying to torrent the same exact file.
The list of torrents on the blog (on the right hand side) will be removed and the download/tracker page will be replaced with a list of torrents and their magnet links. We may in the future add additional information.
We'll update posts in the forum referencing torrents to have the right address, possibly fixing broken ones while we're at it.
TLDR; We're going tracker-less. Don't panic, your torrents wills till work.
Right, that's about it. Are there any comments or questions?
Some reading material:
https://torrentfreak.com/common-bittorr ... hs-091024/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed_hash_table
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peer_exchange
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnet_URI_scheme
Over the course of the decade, torrent technology has advanced but we've been using the same old tracker. Arke and I have been keeping the old mule running, kicking her when she falls over and using large carrots to motivate her forward. It is time for something else.
We've evaluated many options and have concluded that it is time to shut the tracker down.
Don't panic!
We're modifying our existing torrents to no longer point to our tracker and going fully tracker-less. We'll also provide magnet links for these as well. This also includes new releases!
The torrents that you are currently downloading from and/or seeding will still work because your client uses DHT and PEX. This means that even without a tracker, your client is smart enough to look around for others trying to torrent the same exact file.
The list of torrents on the blog (on the right hand side) will be removed and the download/tracker page will be replaced with a list of torrents and their magnet links. We may in the future add additional information.
We'll update posts in the forum referencing torrents to have the right address, possibly fixing broken ones while we're at it.
TLDR; We're going tracker-less. Don't panic, your torrents wills till work.
Right, that's about it. Are there any comments or questions?
Some reading material:
https://torrentfreak.com/common-bittorr ... hs-091024/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed_hash_table
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peer_exchange
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnet_URI_scheme
