dasris

I am in. No problems registering. Tracker seems to work fine.

But can you send me some advice about seeding (what to seed) to gain points on JPS. ty

Another thing that is not included by default but will necessarily need to be before the site goes live is seeding encouragement like a minimum ratio and I was also thinking of implementing a points system like Jpopsuki has sometime in the future since I believe that immensely helps older torrents stay seeded.

My thoughts as a seeder:

Even when H!O had no penalties for hit&run file snatchers, the file permanence was on par to JPS, even when JPS statistics have been beautified by deleting long time unseeded torrents.

This means that file permanence is more influenced by members attitude than by any other thing.

Do no fix it if it's not broken! Do not overdo it.

Everyone should be allowed to download the files he wants. Downloaders are also a part of the community and an important part. A slight penalty like H!O had (wait some time) has the virtue that good seeders got the files before, which is good for file distribution. If the wait time is long, then the penalty is painful.

Since speed has never been an issue in H!O, a reward system should be oriented to file permanency. Do not reward only ratio, but also long time seeding files, to encourage good attitude.

But JPS system is not useful, as the hack of having 200 very small files means that everyone has the same files. This is useless.

In order of importance:

1- Reward seeding torrents that have very low seeder count. (prevent the JPS hack).

2- Reward seeded torrents in function of their size, as disk space is not free and they are more costly to seed.

3- Reward uploaders too. Reward them high.

One possible way to balance this:

Make the seeding reward points calculated as a logarithm of the torrent size. Large torrents will be rewarded better, but not disproportionally so.

If the seeder count is below 7, multiply the seeding reward by 1.5; if below 3, double it. (actual numbers may be other)

Make the bytes uploaded from poorly seeded torrents count more towards ratio. This has 2 benefits:

- Disencourages cheating (not uploading the supposedly seeded torrent)

- Rewards uploaders too.

This should make downloaders look for poorly seeded torrents. What we want.

Please provide a way to find badly seeded torrens. It should be possible to search by seeder count and, if seeder count is zero, by last seen date. (because seeder might reconnect).

Seedbox/fast connection users can provide fast seeding, slow users can provide long file permanency.

Everyone should be allowed to contribute in some way, and allowed to download in reward.

@Juriken14

Having a seedbox in the same place as the tracker just creates more legal risk.

Currently I am seeding Freelech files at JPS. 185 GB so far (3 days). Not much. Maybe I can start to download something else and see if this changes things.

If it works, I am considering the "job" of moving (some) files from JPS to nyaa for downloaders who cannot join JPS or keep the ratio. Large files specially.

In H!O I was doing 10 TB/month. Seeing speeds in JPS and nyaa combined, this is slower. People may need some time to adapt to the new routines.

To those who are planning a new tracker, you have all of my attention.