Thread: TorrentLeech (TL) Review

:: Site's Name : TorrentLeech.org ::

:: Site's URL : log::in ::

:: Sign Up : invites only ::

:: Logo ::


According to FSF's latest research they have listed the top 50 most requested private trackers of 2010. TL has been taken the first place from the list. Few trackers have been taken the highest places past few years and they were the most requested and hard to get in kind of trackers. Some of them still are. But TL has surpassed those trackers and stays in the highest place.
Recently they have introduced the v3 of TL. Not only the new look but also have introduced some new features which are very useful such as new categories, filter system, bookmark torrents, different tabs in the profile page, an individual torrent page’s look etc. There is a vote going on the home page regarding the impression about their updated site. There are over 86k votes have been voted. Well I think the site looks great.

TL has a huge user base. So good speeds on scene and p2p torrents. Even most old torrents have many seeders. You can see that by looking at this image below.

Speeds and contents are the main key points that users love about this tracker. There are so many uploaders there as well. So TL is full with awesome contents. You can get an idea about speeds from that image above. But there is a rule for new users. Most of users find it unfair. The rule of new user waiting time. New users must wait 48hrs to download a new torrent. But there are some ways to get passed it. Everyone knows how it does. Well at least most of 'em. There are few requirements that you need to fill in order to get away from the new user waiting time.
When it comes to contents we have to talk about the tracker's pre-times. I'd like to compare the pre-times with some trackers.
TL


GFT


SCC


You can get a pretty good idea about pre-times of TL by looking at those screens above.

:: Home Page ::


:: Categories ::


:: Browse Page :: You can see the new category icons that they have added recently.

click here to see the whole page.



:: Forum :: There are some additional contents there at the right side of the forum such as recently added topics, topics or forums that you are watching. Forums are active. You can get help from the help section. There are so many topics there as well. They have allocated a sub section only for releases. Example : check out the game section.


:: Rules ::
at the moment the page is not working. rules link redirects to the main page. site is currently being upgraded.

:: Wiki ::


click here see the full page of wiki.

:: User classes ::


:: Invite system ::

VIP users get 2 invites each month and 2 when they renew their VIP membership. Power users may recieve them at admin discretion from time to time but this is rare so do not rely on this happening.

:: IRC Details ::
Server: irc.torrentleech.org
Channel: #torrentleech, #tlhelp

:: Donate System ::


:: Other stuff ::
Useful guide lines


New features that they have added.
Filters.


Different tabs in the profile page


New look of an individual torrent page


Pros :
Great contents, well seeded torrents, amazing speeds.
Easy to seed.
Promising look.

Cons :
New user waiting time.
There is no bonus system.

Ratings :
Contents : 9/10
Speeds : 9/10
Community : 7/10

anyone knows when the invite system will be on !?

No one knows, I hope it happens as soon as possible.

Is there any bonus point system just like IPT and speed.cd ????

Originally Posted by frozi88

Is there any bonus point system just like IPT and speed.cd ????

Nope, there are no bonus at TL.

Originally Posted by dbk991

Nope, there are no bonus at TL.

Then how comes the review said that keeping ratio intact is no fuzz. ?

because everyone has its own experience with TL... for me, IPT is definately easy-to-seed tracker compared to RevTT & TL... the problem with TL is there is 24 or 48 hour ( I don't know precisely ) delay for downloading the new torrents... so, when U're new there, or generally, when U're new in torrent world, & have a slow connection, your ratio will become bad, soon... because it takes time to develop a successful torrent tactics & when U develop it, it may be too late...

so, if U're looking for a general/0-day tracker to start with, I suggest U IPT... it has an excellent offer, it's not so hard to seed, there's enormous amount of freeleech stuff etc... when IPT won't be enough anymore to fulfill your needs, U can always step to a higher level ( RevTT, TL etc. )...

Originally Posted by Breadboy

The site looks awesome graphic-wise.

I also sort-of agree.

I haven't really seen any tracker that beats 'What' in design yet.

Great review. I like TL because they have both scene and non-scene stuff and because they have about 200k users, so seeding is easy (at least is easy for me).