Centralized Freeleech Discussions
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Hello all!
I've seen the new Freeleech feature for selected torrents, and I would like to ask some questions. Maybe you will add a Freeleech section in the FAQ or in the support forum and you can include them
I'm very happy with this feature, obviously :cheesy2: , as there are some torrents that I would download just for curiosity or to see what's the film about, but I don't really want to spend ratio on them.
As I understand, if I download a Freeleech torrent, it won't count as downloaded torrents in the DL/UL ratio. But my question is, will the seeding of a Freeleech torrent count as uploaded data, so it will improve the ratio, or it is free in both ways?
Will it be an option when uploading a file, to make it freeleech? And why a person would do that? ???
Maybe old files or files with just a few seeders can be automatically converted to freeleech. I don't know if you have thought in a particular use for it.
In any case, it's a nice feature, thanks!
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The download doesn't count, the upload is counted. So yes, freeleech torrents are a good way to improve the share ratio.
Currently only the tracker has been upgraded to support freeleech and 50 torrents are set manually to freeleech. We need users testing it and feedback if it works correctly or if there are issues.
It is planned as next steps to have an automatic freeleech on some torrents following some criteria (basically promoting old still seed torrents) as well as the possibility to exchange seedbonus points for making a torrent freelecch for a certain time. Details are under discussion and likely adjustments are made once seen the real effects and dynamics of the freeleech.
Some uploader have a real great share ratio and don't need the seed bonus points for ratio, so they could spend their points to make ("their") torrents more attractive.
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Search condition for freeleech has been added. :cheesy2:
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Would it be possible to put this information on the welcome page? :love:
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Thank you for the info!
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Would it be possible to put this information on the welcome page? :love:
From our Home page:
2012-12-28 - FREELEECH Today we added support for freeleech torrents. At the moment just a few torrents where picked for testing. If you have any questions or feedback please feel free to contact us at the Helpdesk.
This was already present before 09:30 system time and when I made my earlier reply. Other information (FAQ, bonus point exchange) will be updated once available on the site …
Could someone with download rights taken test to download a freeleech torrent, please?
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Do these torrents remain FREELEECH indefinitely or will it return to regular status once new freeleeches are added ?
If the durations of freeleech torrents are overlapped, can we also have a sort by : DATE of which the torrents are modified to FREELEECH. That would be helpful to organize and choose torrents once we have much more freeleech torrents. -
They will be Freeleech only for a limited duration. As per now, all members can make any torrent Freeleech. The number of Seed Bonus Points depends on file size and Freeleech duration.
Once a torrent is Freeleech, it is Freeleech for all.
ATTENTION: When a torrent is still leeched once the Freeleech expires, download will count again to the account statistics.
At the moment there isn't yet a way to sort by Freeleech duration.
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Hi!
I've been downloading some freeleech torrents and my downloaded data counter remains the same, so that seems to work. I've also seen the new feature to convert any torrent in freeleech for a time using your seed bouns. A generous option indeed
In addition to sorting by freeleech remaining time, it would be nice if you could sort by time since the torrent became freeleech, so you can see the new freeleech torrents easily.
Thanks!
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I see
Actually it are the sponsors making a torrent Freeleech which are generous. Perhaps there are building-up small communities of same interest (e.g. from the Forum Special Interest Groups) to combine the points for common free download.
Hopefully the freelecher will stay seeding and don't develop a hit & run mentality.
The exchange rate may change, depending on the success of the Freeleech.
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Seems that the option to make a torrent free leech is not available for DVDs. Can GTRU make the free leech option available for DVDs as well?
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Freeleech for DVDs is available, too.
The option isn't shown when a torrent is already Freeleech or a member has not enough Seed Bonus Points to make it Freeleech…
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@Uwe:
We need users testing it and feedback if it works correctly or if there are issues.
Ooook thanks Staff for this unbeatable opportunity ^-^ :cheers: Now then some anedoctal molish feedback for the Überbear Uwe. Tested freeleech on 50 torrents and everything went good with the exception of a single torrent named BlackDraft which, despite more than 30 seeders, put more than 3 hours to start for some reason. With 1/50 of failure we are speaking of a 2% which is not much but could prove annoying for a seeder who had bought a limited freeleech time for a file to see it impact against such a problem. Generally speaking the system seems very good for the low bandwidth user who, even engaging quickly in a new seed, might have difficulties in keeping a good ratio anyway against the fast dloaders/uploaders. It didn't prove in my case very useful instead when applied to the revitalization of old torrents. I had to give up on two of them. It seems to me that when the seeders number falls under 12-13 the tracker has difficulties to allocate the already meager resources leaving you eventually often for hours and hours with one or a couple of peers and file trasfer speeds of no more than a handful of kbs.
Pratical example: the torrent named Triumvirate soccer play2 (or something like that): generous freeleech time, constant visibility of 10 seeders in the site, never seen more than 1 or 2 in the tracker though, hence hours of 1-2 kbs/sec tranfers –-> given up despite the freeleech. -
[off-topic]Can you give a link to the torrent description page of that "Triumvirate soccer play2" , couldn't find such a torrent …
What do you call the tracker? Our site displays what our tracker sees as peers and that should be what you see in Transmission as available peers (not connected peers).[/off-topic]
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[off-topic]Et voilà Uwe
https://www.gaytorrent.ru/details.php?id=2493
the torrent was this one.
Concerning the number of available peers instead, the one I see connected in Transmission is constantly lower if compared to the one displayed in the site. I had never seen that as a problem to report as long as it has been generally possible to download/upload the torrent file within my connection bandwidth possibilities. :)[/off-topic]
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[off-topic]Here it is Uwe. I've dloaded this little torrent just to take the screenshot and let you understand better. :hug2:
As you can see, indicated by the red arrows I've added later, the number of peers acnowledged by the client is constantly lower than that showed by the site. In this case the client sees roughly half of them but it is not always the case: they are always less but the % may vary. In this case though the bug, provided it is one, is uninfluent cause with 423 Kb/s we are at a very good rate of exploitation of my modest bandwidth and on a practical note it would be mebbe useless to see all the 51 peers if these ones are already enough. Different the case when you have 10 peers on the site, 5-6 seen by the client and only 1-2 connecterd with througputs of a couple of Kb/s facing files of 1 Gb or more ^-^
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I've tried both torrents and see in my µTorrent the same number of peers than on the site. On both the download was immediate with an excellent download rate, though my µTorrent is set to be not connectible.
Therefore a short Freeleech duration would have well been sufficient.
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Idea regarding freeleech:
First of all, great idea to start that scheme. Thanks! Second, I would like to propose an idea or possibility for reflection.
When freeleech was announced, it gave access to a lot of old torrents which I would normally not download, because since they are old the likelihood that I would be able to seed on them would be low. In other words, old torrents are likely to be only download therefore complete cost on ratio regardless of sharing.
I was therefore thinking the freeleech for such torrents was great, since it would benefit the seeders and leechers alike in comparison to more recent torrents. In general if one does not want to harm his ratio, one needs to check the site very often to get the latest torrent and have a chance at uploading a decent amount before people move on.
Anyway, I favorited a lot of those torrents pages in my browser because I was busy packing to go back home from home (usual xmas stuff). By the time I was back most of the freelech had expired. I was well sad of that :blownose:
SO to the point.
The idea I would like to propose is to relaunch scheme for older torrents one in a while, since they are mostly for all intents and purposes "dead". That is first proposal. Second proposal would be to make freeleech not dependent on time with respect to seedpoints used to get the status, but to the amount of data downloaded on said torrent. I am explaining myself: if you "buy" freeleech on an old torrents and it happens that no one look it up for a while, then it might expire before anyone gets to download it (unless i misunderstood how freeleech works). it's seedpoints wasted both for the uploader and the interested leecher alike. Changing to allow for a fixed size (say, 4 or 5 downloads? I don't know), maybe as an option for the uploader, would allow the freeleech to stay on up until someone finds the torrent again. Everyone wins - as far as i can tell.
What do you guys think?
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[off-topic]@Uwe:
I've tried both torrents and see in my µTorrent the same number of peers than on the site. On both the download was immediate with an excellent download rate, though my µTorrent is set to be not connectible.
Possible problems client side then Uwe. Once upon a time I remember one of the now deprecated past µTorrent versions worked well with wine. Unsure now about the behaviour of 3 and over versions :cry2:. Any linux junky mebbe? ^-^[/off-topic]
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if you "buy" freeleech on an old torrents and it happens that no one look it up for a while, then it might expire before anyone gets to download it (unless i misunderstood how freeleech works). it's seedpoints wasted both for the uploader and the interested leecher alike.
Hello, uicuic!
You give me the impression that some things regarding the connection between seedbonus points (SBP) and freeleech torrents are still unclear to you.
If this is the case, I'll attempt to make it a little bit clearer.Any user at any time can spend some SBP to:
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either buy freeleech time for a torrent that isn't freeleech (that means that any torrent can become freeleech by anyone)
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or extend the freeleech time for a torrent that is already freeleech (that means that the expiration time can be extended by anyone)
This way, all torrents can become freeleech, the expiration time can change, and no SBP are wasted.
I hope it's clear to you now how this thing works.I'd like to hear more feedback from you, and if you have any more ideas or questions, keep them coming!
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