Thread: If You Could Start Your Own Tracker What Would It Be?

I was thinking the same! Haha, we should start a tracker together, lol! :D

School text books, from middle school to medical school, and everything in between. There's no reason we students should have to pay 400 dollars for a book we use once.

Can't think of a name for this one, but it would be a general tracker having basically all the different categories and subcategories you can think of. You would have a nice user interface that allows you to browse through the torrents with ease, e.g. by clicking games you will be shown firstly the platforms, secondly the genre and thirdly the company. All of this should be possible to be done on the fly so that the results are refreshed automatically and show up virtually instantly. You would have also a set of some check boxes (maybe related to tags) so that after a few clicks you will see what you wanted to find without even typing in a single word. Some typical search functions like year, month, pack, leechers, seeders, size etc. would be a must have.

The site would be ratio-less, no hit'n'run or seed time obligations, you would have to visit the site only once per 6 months and you could park your account for 2 years.
The user limit would be 250 000 and the targeted amount of indexed torrents would be 750 000+.
So how the ** is that going to work?
In order to be accepted as a full user you would have to upload 3 unique torrents and keep the files for at least 2 years so that if there is a reseed request on a torrent less than 24 months old you would be ensured to have a seeder. The 3 torrents would also have to be accepted by staff or get 10 votes.
After the 2 years you are allowed to jump off your own torrent, and there would be a "not powered by uploader" notification on that torrent after that, but you would have to upload a new torrent instead.
After the initial 3 uploaded torrents active for 2 years you are alternatively given the opportunity to replace one uploaded torrent with 4 torrents seeded or "powered" by you. This time you would have to be active for 6 months on those torrents (6*4=24months). And after those 6 months you may replace any seeded torrent against another seeded torrent. This way you should all the time have 3 active uploads or 12 powered seeds or a combination of these.
Having the powered status on a torrent gives you the obligation to give all your upload bandwidth for those torrents if there are fewer than 5 seeders on them.
Any of the three uploaded torrents may be removed against 10TB of upload as well (after 2 years). So if you have been a full user for 2 years (and uploaded 3 torrents) and uploaded a total of 30TB you could remove all your obligations.
A bonus point system (from active seeding time, exponentially on torrents with few seeds and also depending on upload speed) and an uploading reward could be one request per 1TB or a certain amount of bonus points or for filling 3 request.
The site would be insanely difficult to get into. Basically you would have to have seed box speeds. Only encrypted hard drives would be allowed. Only one account per user, 10 IPs per account. One invite per 2TB of upload to users at least 6 month on the site.
So it might work. But finding those 250 000 members would be difficult.
There should be an alternative way of obtaining those invites or at least in the very beginning it should be easier to get them.

I'd also like that no content is zipped or rarred. If compression would be necessary, people should at least use the best program with a decent speed/compression ratio like FreeArc. But I really don't see the point in further compressing when the original formats are powerful codec algorithms in videos, or the best lossless algorithms in sound like flac, or lossy like mp3. There are also compressed ISO-formats, and compressing ISO's in general gives you no significant advantage whatsoever. Briefly I say no to double space on my hard drive, besides I believe this would increase the lifetime of torrents overall.

And to answer the second question, why?
There just is no tracker that has it all, at least for now. I'm member of approx 20 sites.

Bump, there's some new blood here. Let's see what they have to say.