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Yes. RIP a ton of very rare material. What.cd has a special place in my heart.

some-guy 9mo ago
Redacted.sh is a worthy successor, but the average person just doesn’t care about “which release is best” anymore. I use YT Music as a backup but Redacted is my main source of music these days.
- karamanolev 9mo ago
  Don't you consider it best to ... redact ... your post, as it's the only one mentioning it by name?
  - fragmede 9mo ago
    Some people just don't know when to shut the hell up.
  - sincerely 9mo ago
    It's hardly a secret, you can go on r/trackers where people discuss private trackers for every media type
- selectodude 9mo ago
  At the end of the day it feels like the private trackers are such a nightmare to get invited to and maintain ratio at it’s just not worth the effort. I want this torrent though. It would be fun to stand up a NAS for this.
  - some-guy 9mo ago
    The private trackers are just as much about the community as they are about the content they host. Of course there are trade offs because communities can be very insular. I’ve noticed in the past 10 years or so private trackers have become less strict because the economics of ratios only works if either a) everyone is equally uploading new material and b) there are more and more signups. So now there is value in the amount of time you seed your content which lowers your “required” ratio.
    - max51 9mo ago
      Generally speaking, trackers that require a ratio above 1.0 and don't have freeleech/point system are designed so that you pay the website to fix your ratio and/or rent a seedbox from one of their partner. It's a 0 sum game; for every account with a >1.0 ratio, that implies other people will be <1.0. And when you compete with 10gb/s seedboxes that have scripts to automatically grab all the new torrent the second they get posted, it's extremely difficult to improve your ratio. Even for super popular torrents, you have a few minutes to seed as much as you can before upload speed goes to 0 forever. You can't slowly accumulate upload over time the same way you would with a torrent from a public tracker.
  - leetbulb 9mo ago
    If you share your email somehow, I can invite you.
- udev4096 9mo ago
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Redacted.sh is a worthy successor, but the average person just doesn’t care about “which release is best” anymore. I use YT Music as a backup but Redacted is my main source of music these days.

karamanolev 9mo ago
Don't you consider it best to ... redact ... your post, as it's the only one mentioning it by name?
- fragmede 9mo ago
  Some people just don't know when to shut the hell up.
- sincerely 9mo ago
  It's hardly a secret, you can go on r/trackers where people discuss private trackers for every media type
selectodude 9mo ago
At the end of the day it feels like the private trackers are such a nightmare to get invited to and maintain ratio at it’s just not worth the effort. I want this torrent though. It would be fun to stand up a NAS for this.
- some-guy 9mo ago
  The private trackers are just as much about the community as they are about the content they host. Of course there are trade offs because communities can be very insular. I’ve noticed in the past 10 years or so private trackers have become less strict because the economics of ratios only works if either a) everyone is equally uploading new material and b) there are more and more signups. So now there is value in the amount of time you seed your content which lowers your “required” ratio.
  - max51 9mo ago
    Generally speaking, trackers that require a ratio above 1.0 and don't have freeleech/point system are designed so that you pay the website to fix your ratio and/or rent a seedbox from one of their partner. It's a 0 sum game; for every account with a >1.0 ratio, that implies other people will be <1.0. And when you compete with 10gb/s seedboxes that have scripts to automatically grab all the new torrent the second they get posted, it's extremely difficult to improve your ratio. Even for super popular torrents, you have a few minutes to seed as much as you can before upload speed goes to 0 forever. You can't slowly accumulate upload over time the same way you would with a torrent from a public tracker.
- leetbulb 9mo ago
  If you share your email somehow, I can invite you.
udev4096 9mo ago
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