Thread: SceneLife (ScL) Review

SceneLife


ScL is the nickname of the famous tracker named SceneLife.
It is a 0-day tracker and has nice and "warm" community.
It has pretty awesome pre-times, awesome packs which are always freeleech, movies, games, music which is also always freeleech and there are some more categories (you can refer to the "Torrent Categories" below).
On almost all the torrents which have 2 seeders or more, there are good speeds. If there are more than 5, usually the speed is awesome! Fortunately, seedbox is not needed to maintain a good ratio as there are tons of freeleech packs which help a lot your ratio, but it could help you to have more easy a good ratio.


IRC

They have an IRC bonus idle system which you get 1 MB per minute which means about 1,4 GB per day!
Also,they have a nice and easy to follow tutorial on how to connect at their IRC channel.
I'd say the IRC channel is active; but you can freely disagree...

Invites

Invites can be gained through competitions or by donating.




Below are screenshots which "talk by themselves".

Home/News



Torrent Categories



Browse Page



Forums



Rules



User Classes



FAQ



Note: In some screenshots, I have removed some numbers which could be used to identify my account at the tracker.

Some recent news from the tracker:

Shutting down - 2010-04-23

Dear Members

Our new project has finally gone public. We are glad to announce that we have invited our best, most loyal and most trusted users from ScL. Unfortunately we couldn’t invite all our ScL members, and there are several reasons for that. As many of you know, sadly we had many collectors in our userbase. Around 4700 of our 9800 userbase were users who barely did anything besides logging in to prevent being banned. So to those users – You didn’t think of us, therefore we didn’t think of you either.
As mentioned we invited all our finest and most loyal users on ScL. This leaves out the group between these loyal users and those bad collectors, which is a group of around 2000 people. This group is not a bad group, they weren’t collectors, and we are willing to give them a fair chance to join:

We are willing to give all our members a chance for a freshstart. For invites to the new tracker, you need to be interviewed. For interviews go to:
Server: irc.p2p-net.eu
#x.interviews
Once your there, read the topic and you'll know what to do.
IMPORTANT: We have a very strict activity policy - so unless you plan to be active, don't even bother applying.

To all of you whom got invited – Welcome to the new tracker. To the rest of you – thanks for a wonderful time here at ScL. We will never forget this tracker and will always take a proud look back, despite the problems we had during the last months.
With all that said, the site will shutdown in 24 hours – So now is the time to say your final goodbyes.

We wish you all the very best of luck in life for the future.
Take care,

SceneLife crew from 2007-2010

Looking for some coders - 2010-04-14

Dear Scenelife Members

We are thrilled to announce that the new project is going very well. It will soon be ready for public view. There are only some minor stuff left and with this announcement we would like to announce that we are looking for some skilled coders who has some time left on their hands to help us out with the project.

To be a part of our coders team you need to have good knowledge of and experience with PHP, HTML, CSS and MySQL. Knowing other coding stuff such as C, javascript and ajax are advantages. Having experience with coding for trackers is also a bonus.
Also if your an expert in a field; for example web developing you'd be a strong candidate for our team. As mentioned above, we need someone who has some time on their hands, which means someone who can stick around and help with coding around 2 hours a day.

If you match the criterias mentioned above and want to help us out please let us know here: http://188.165.200.218/contactstaff.php.
Please include the following information in your message:
- The coding languages you know and how long you've been working with them.
- If you have any experience with tracker sourcecodes (TBdev, etc)
- Additional information: If your really good in a field; for example web developing, please let us know.

Take care,

SceneLife crew since 2007

Scenelife forever in our hearts - 2010-03-31

Dear Scenelife Members

As you know things haven't been going well lately and we apologize for that. But we would like to say that there is an explanation for everything that has happened in the past months.

In the past 7 months – ScL’s owner and coder SScript has been really inactive. He has been even less active than he was before, which basically means he has been spending approximately an hour a week on the site. He has also been leaving for many weeks without letting any other staffers know, leaving the site on its own and constantly forgetting to pay the server costs (which I'm sure you all noticed since the site constantly went down at the start of each month). SScript was never a good owner. Coding issues that were supposed to be dealt with almost 11 months ago are still not done, and yet he was too arrogant to give direct access to other coders so they could help us out.

In the past year the site has basically been ran by it's mods and admins paying the server costs from their own pocket. And if it wasn't for staff members like pedrowsky, MSO, HL, aquirre, ViperMM, scrappen and winnie - the site would have died a long time ago. Of course we also have to mention KS, z7x, nbf, bananafurry and all other ex-staffers when talking about this in general - though the names we mentioned in the first sentence are the people who have had the most influence in the past year.

Around 4 months ago ScL went down for a long period because the owner SScript had issues paying for the server. He claims that he had paypal problems. The other staffers – supportive as always wanted to help him to get ScL back up and perhaps ask you guys to donate a little extra so he can keep running the site. But SScript didn’t have a recent copy of ScLs code and DB (His last copy was 8 months old!). Yes we know – The owner and coder of ScL doesn’t have a copy of his own site? As crazy as it sounds – It’s the truth, so now you can understand why we call him a bad owner. After this we really understood how little he cared about the site – so we decided not to support him anymore.

Anyway after weeks of hard work – MSO managed to find a 2 month old copy of the ScL and then host it on aquirres server. This copy – as everyone noticed didn’t have the torrents backed up, so therefore ScL came back up with 0 torrents.
We have been trying for months to find a way to get our torrents back and trust us – if there was a way to do it, it would have been done a long time ago. This is one of the main reasons why we didn’t give out any info to our members – We simply hoped that we could get our torrents back and that everything could go back to normal. Other reasons for us giving you guys information about the sites status this late was that SScript removed the domain (scenelife.com) since he realized that we are against him now. And as mentioned earlier, we were really far behind on the coding front – so we simply didn’t have a function to mass email our users. However – thanks to mrstonedone (who is actually not a site coder, but an IRC coder) we managed to make a function like this to finally inform you guys about what’s going on.

So what happens now? As tragic and sad as it may be – It’s time for ScL to shut down. We were blessed with the finest community the BT world has ever known and there is no doubt that our members will forever be in our hearts. There is no other tracker and there never will be a tracker with a community as strong and warm as the one ScL had.
But there is still some hope left: ScL will never come back, no. But – The Scenelife Crew is working on a new promising project and would like to welcome our active and loyal members to join us. This tracker is going to be a magnificent tracker – including a reckless design, a magnificent community, and the one thing ScL always missed – LOTS OF TORRENTS. We’ve got sponsors for this project and we got a really nice budget to work our way around. More info about this project will be given later.
Last but not least – We would like to say that our time as staffers on this tracker has been great and we’ve had a lot of fun serving this community. Even though we’ve had our ups and downs, it has been a pleasure to be staffers of a community this amazing. We will surely miss our fine members and we would like to wish you the best of luck in life.
And PS: The forums will be up until further notice.

Take care,

SceneLife crew since 2007

Originally Posted by Pancake

I never really liked the tracker. I only used it like 10 times and those were to download some ScL packs. I miss the community a lot but SeX has a lot of ex-ScL members.

Well.. I loved this tracker! It had so nice movie packs! It was actually my favourite tracker.

It is true. Many members of ScL are now at SeX.. although personally I haven't found something attractive to me with this tracker.