Home Improvements

Posted: Sun Sep 30, 2007 3:44 pm

Update on various under the hood changes (and some not so under):

Fixed broken BBCode in posting Releases. Also added ed2k link parsing and stats support.
Fixed/auto-corrects many search syntax errors
Significant improvements to indexing and indexed torrents: Can I say anti-spam? I welcome more reports of "bad" torrents/trackers under this thread. I do check this thread frequently although I may not answer, and I often kill far many more torrents that what you report based on pattern recognitions and statistical analysis I do. I won't say how/what exactly I do as that would clue spammers. Just keep the reports coming, and any patterns to spam and fakes you see.
Many new sites added to index
Reduced turn-around for new torrents to show up in index (you should now see no more than 2-3 hours delay for any new torrents published to show up on isoHunt)
Improved and faster scraping of seed/leecher stats
More speed! With site and search response time (thank SecretSquirrel and Spike for the tuneups and upgrades)
Old update now, but in case you haven't noticed, sorting in search results now remembers your preference of which column you chose for sorting in cookie

Also, tons of inactive user accounts has been pruned. If you haven't logged in and posted in a year, or you haven't activated your account after a month since registration, your account would have been pruned. In which case you should sign up again if you like to use logged in features, such as download history and posting in forums.

And as a random thought of the day, this article studies what most of us already intuitively know: that Fair Use makes economic sense. So how have you exercised your Fair Use rights today? Or Fair Dealings, or whatever you call it in your country. And for you US people, check out CCIA's website in rallying for Fair Use.

Posted: Sun Sep 30, 2007 7:51 pm

It would also be easier to allow logged in users to press say a button on the torrents window that will auto post a message into the Bad torrents post.

This is not hard at all if you wanted to take the time to do it i mean its around about a 5minute job but hey its up to you fellas.

Just something you should think about although there is a change fools will press the button on purpose when the torrent is fine but thats just some people.

Cheers A.T.H.K

Posted: Sat Nov 03, 2007 9:13 pm

A.T.H.K wrote:

It would also be easier to allow logged in users to press say a button on the torrents window that will auto post a message into the Bad torrents post.

This is not hard at all if you wanted to take the time to do it i mean its around about a 5minute job but hey its up to you fellas.

Just something you should think about although there is a change fools will press the button on purpose when the torrent is fine but thats just some people.

Cheers A.T.H.K

i think that would definitely be subject to a large amount of abuse... i think the posting in a forum is better...