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Please also note that the hentai vote is a joke, and we'd simply count it towards the yes vote!

As many of you know, datorrents has been working on plans for a full overhaul of our system. At the same time, we've come up with the idea of changing the site from being a tracker to being a anime index with tracker abilities

How would this work? What is an index site?

Currently my fellow admins and I are taking part in the testing/coding of a new daTorrents system and wanted to know what people thought of it all.
As of right now it's quite hard todo external tracking, and our current stats have been hooped for almost a year now (and the planned upgrades right now stand a good chance of just not working).

A torrent index is like torrentspy, thepiratebay and most notibly, mininova.

Does that mean we'd need another place to track off of?

Not at all. On top of this, we'll be running a 100% public tracker that everyone is welcome to track off. to use it you don't need to have an account on the site or anything to download, etc, simply just use our announce URL. Once you start seeding, the tracker will keep, well, track of your torrent and share it to all your leechers/seeders.

So what would we loose?

Due to how indexers work, and the tracker we're looking at using, we'd loose ratios. What this means is that no ratios would be kept, nor really could be kept, on users.

But then people will be leeching like crazy! this doesn't help anyone!

While people may not like leechers (none of us do), we would have a section where users could report leechers that they catch on their clients. We can then IP ban the user if they're doing it hard core and just abusing the system.

Many communities also don't wish for their users to be moderated either, and so this would open daTorrents to them as well. :-)

OK, then what would we gain in this all?

For one, with the new tracker, we could finally keep up with the masses of users wishing to announce to us. At this time we keep around 45,000 peers, but a lot of the time users can't contact the server to announce. We expect this number to be closer to 60,000.

On top of this, i've now found a way to collect anime from MANY other sites, meaning that we wouldn't just have our own anime, we'd have anime posted on any of the large communities out there (demonoid, torrentspy, etc).

With such huge changes, the performance of the site as a whole would go up a HUGE amount (we're talking no more SQL drop outs, and slow page loading, etc).

If we go ahead with this, how soon would the change over happen?

The code base is being developed already, so if DAT doesn't use it, it will be put elsewhere. Including the building of a new skin, installation, migration, etc, it would take no more than a few days to complete.

How long will we have to decide?

I'll give this vote 1 week to bring up all comments, concerns, and just poll results.

Thanks,

~Francisco