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Leech2Seed (L2S) Review
Tracker Name : Leech2Seed
Tracker's URL : Leech2Seed :: Login
Signup URL : Invite Only
Tracker Type : General
Tracker Birthday : October 2010
Leech2Seed is one of those trackers that came out of nowhere and really made a good first impression. Although it's quite new ( a couple of months old ) it grew really fast, gathering now somewhere near 2000 registered users and over 3600 torrents. The TBDev-based site has quite a nice design, an active community ( both the forums and the shoutbox ), but i have to say they kinda overdid it with the number of staff members : 6 SysOps, 4 Moderators, 3 SuperModerators, 1 Administrator and 1 TeamLeader. This is not such a big deal, since each and everyone of them has/ plays an important part in L2S's development ( with coding, recruiting, more coding, web design, encoding... stuff like that ).
When it comes to content and speeds, seeders/ leechers ratio L2S has it all : general content - so expect to find almost all pretty new releases out there ( well at least since October 2010 till now ) as well as some internal releases <which are being handed on a silver plate by 2 of the senior staff members>; almost all torrents are being uploaded on 100 MBit and 1 GB seedboxes - so no problems with the speeds there... as for the other stats, well i will let the screenshots and the numbers do the talking.
Logo
Home/News
Although the tracker doesn't have IRC channels, yet, ( and they are thinking about "getting some" ), the shoutbox located on the Home Page does the trick as well, and it does it pretty good. Also new releases/ uploads are being announced there as well.
Tracker Stats
Torrent Categories
Browse Page
As you can see there aren't many requests being made there and i think this has to do with the fact that the site is still pretty new. But even so, the uploaders manage to fill some of them. One of L2S's main features when it comes to uploading is the AutoBot, which pretty much does all the work.
Freeleech
Another feature that L2S brings on the table is the impressive amount of freeleech torrents, so talking about numbers again : 1915 out of those 3600+ torrents are marked freeleech. It's like being another category of the actual active torrents and since i've found nothing in the Rules about it, i'm guessing it's staff picked.
Forums
The forums are quite active ( maybe because the IRC is missing ), but even so it covers General topics from : Games, +18 Rated and Competitions to BitTorrent News, Betting and hidden VIP Section, where invites can be handed ( Trading is not allowed ) among users. Despite all of these, i have to say that the Forums section is kinda messed up and someone should organize a bit better those categories/ sections/ sub-forums. Also, the avatars and the whole message box are a bit small. But, probably these came with the theme and would be sorted out in the future.
Rules
Bonus System
The Bonus system is pretty much the classic one where you get points for seeding/ uploading like : 1 BP/ 1 seeding-hour. You can also receive BP for :- Uploading a new torrent = 15 points
- Putting up an offer = 10 points
- Filling a request = 10 points
- Comment on torrent = 3 points
- Saying thanks = 2 points
- Rating a torrent = 2 points
- Making a post = 1 point
- Starting a topic = 2 points
These points can be exchanged for the usual stuff : upload GB, invites, fixing ratio, custom titles, upload GB gifts.
Userclasses/Promotion
The promotion system is pretty simple as well, since you get 3 classes ( except for Donors and VIPs ) and as you can see the requirements are standard.
Invite System
Only staff members can invite for now.
IRC Details
Not available for now.
Donation System/ Page
Ratings & Personal Commentary
I still see it as a new site, but one that is pretty much there, always trying to improve itself, kinda reminding me of AO.
--- the site tries to please users needs and brought them the well-known Betting Games and a Radio.
Maybe the speeds, content, autoBot, the 100 MBit/ 1 GBit seedbox are pretty standard things for current sites/ trackers ( if you want to survive out there ) and might not surprise you, but remember that this site tries, is out there for a short period of time - but managed to gather both users and torrents - and you might wanna give it a shot. There is also a poll, on the Home Page, where staff are even thinking of going Ratioless. That's a risky move, since this has become more like a movement or a fashion outbreak in the last year and a half... but good luck with that. For now seed till you bleed :
