Testing vBulletin Tracker system

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.

Ciao.

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

Cheers.

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

Ciao.

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

Cheers.

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.

Ciao.

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

EDIT: Kinda works now. Thanks a lot Bigblah!

Cheers.

Originally Posted by Merv Burger

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

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

Ciao.

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

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

Also, this looks pretty sweet. =))

Ciao.

Originally Posted by AcerBandit

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

Cheers.

Monkeys make everything funny. =)

Ciao.

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

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Voices currently has over four billion seeders.

Ciao.

FIX IT CHZ

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How come Tails has a ratio of 5,046.93

IS THIS A GLITCH.

Ciao.

Originally Posted by Bigblah

FIX IT CHZ

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.

Originally Posted by Blue_Kirby2

How come Tails has a ratio of 5,046.93

IS THIS A GLITCH.

Cheers.

Finally, a reason to visit Gamingforce.

Can I get some FLAC rips.

Of course I will seed depending on my mood.

Ciao.

Originally Posted by shadoweave

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

EDIT: Kinda works now. Thanks a lot Bigblah!

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.

Cheers.

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.

Ciao.

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

Cheers.

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.

Spoiler:

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 delated the passkey from the announce URL.

Ciao.

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.

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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.

Ciao.

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.

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.

Cheers.

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!

Ciao.