Nu Torrent Tracker 0.74

Finally, my bittorrent tracker for vBulletin has reached a somewhat betaish level. Meaning, it functions but some things are still missing like AdminCP Category Editing and so on. But only a few. All needed things are there and it works well as I've been running it on my board for a month now.

I decided to write this thing after firsthand witnessing the problems with VBTT and what was first meant to be quite simple turned out into a full fledged tracker with features like commenting, rating, etc.

Note that this is a beta which means it has only been tested on one system AND I won't be responsible if you go blind from the messy code. But hey, it works! :nervous:


I don't have any screenshots but you are welcome to come and check out the live demo at: http://www.tokyo-nights.com/nutt
Heck, I'll even throw in a test user for ya:

user: kjustice
pass: useme

I'll prolly be updating the distro as I find and fix bugs. When the instructions say so or if you wish to, you can uninstall it by going to /forum/admincp/nutt_install.php?step=uninstall

0.74 - Made upload use vB's new thread function to fix the nasty apostrophe issue in 0.73
Changed:
upload.php

0.73 - Improved conditions for users the tracker reports as 'unconnectable'.
Changed:
announce.php

0.72 - Added a function to fix the navbar urls.
Changed:
functions.php
nutt_global.php

0.71 - Fixed a bug in details.php.
Changed:
details.php

[afusion]

eh? flame who? the creator of VBTT? well... from what I've heard and experienced myself, my words were rather soft in this case but ok, point taken...

EDIT: I wouldn't have my first release would be this big of a disaster... Sorry, but I removed the file for now. It's late here so no more bugfixing today but I'm gonna take a serious look at it in the morning and post a solid version here asap. Sorry again.... *ish embarrased now*

bah, sqrtboy needed a little kick in the but some day, and i gave him... maybe one day he will be more polite in private than he was before... it's a commercial contact to me, and i can say that even in french is can insult easily.. a little flame can't harm him anyway..

but yes, i would delete the flaming part.. ;0

@ds... http://www.bittorrent.com/documentation.html for documentation about how BT works...

[dsboyce8624]

Originally Posted by nexialys

@ds... http://www.bittorrent.com/documentation.html for documentation about how BT works...

Okay, but I'm still not sure. So this hack would only track the files, not actually pass them, right?

If so, do we know how much traffic that generates?

1- the tracker keep the files hash in store, in file or database format.
2- users that download these files hash will be in continuous contact with your server to keep the tracker up-to-date for the statistics... that's the big problem with this system. some new systems never update their stats if you can't finish a download, so there is less contacts with the tracker... but you have always a contact with the server, so there is a lot of bandwidth if you host hundreds of files...

i actually host myself 3 trackersfor 3 softwares companies... they are very server intensive, but they pay for it... and they are only distributing their own softwares. ... yes, the more we see companies distribute their games or softwares with torrentbit format because it's less server intense than a ftp...

but you have to know what is your market before starting... if you have games or big images, you will havea lot of leechers, not much seeders...

[dsboyce8624]

Okay I don't want this then. I thought it was just a tracking thing, and I don't wanna tear up my bandwidth.

[bigcurt]

Im sorry if you explained it in thread..but where exactly is it :P.

Originally Posted by bigcurt

Im sorry if you explained it in thread..but where exactly is it :P.

will be re-uploaded to the thread tomorrow, there was some missing files in the distro...

[ericgtr]

Originally Posted by nexialys

the only point with torrent and legal threat is the same with any other software where you can download something... ftp, afp, etc... all files protocol have pirates on 'em...

Well said, nexialys. It's funny how it becomes automatically associated with piracy because it's a protocol used for it. There are plenty of legitimate files being transfered with BT, it's just that you never hear about it unless there is a law suit.

[yoyoyoyo]

afusion- I am looking forward to the updated files since your site works really well.