Another EZTV site suggestion

i recently requested someone with full copies of the older without a trace
episodes seed them for a while (because there were about 20 people stuck on near
full downloads, with no seeds, for about 10 episodes).

there's at least one really nice guy out there who read my posts and did
exactly that. thanks to him, i and about 30 other people got the episodes (more
peers came on line during the process). hopefully that will continue for these
episodes (and it does seem to be, some people are seeding) thereby keeping the
torrents alive. props to the wonderful seed from norway, and honorable mention
for the one from argentina who kept popping in to help.

conclusion: requests for seeds (if done right, and in enough places) can work,
as there are nice people who do really do pay attention and upload in the spirit
of p2p.

the point of this post is to suggest that in the next version of the eztv
site a system of requests for seeds on existing torrents with no seeds (and
*only* those, not 'can eztv please cap extreme boredom from obscuretv?') be
implemented, with a short list displayed prominently on the front page, so that
existing torrents can be revitalized by the occasional good samaritan. i think
this would significantly extend the lifetime of torrents and be *extremely*
helpful. there are good people out there who would pay attention and seed.

you could make a button next to the link to the torrent so that it's easy, and
only works for existing torrents. you could display the requested torrents on
the front page based not only on when they were requested, but also how often
(and if possible, how many peers are waiting). requests could be removed when
they have at least one seed, or perhaps two. you could also have a page giving
the complete list of seedless torrents.

this way old torrents can pick up again, and the requests list in these forums
would be only for requests for new torrents, while the requests for seeds on old
torrents would not get lost in the static, or buried in the messages associated
with the actual torrent (which, since it is old, probably doesn't get read by
anyone who has the complete file).


there are good people out there, and thanks to them the old torrents are still
going and live again, so...

whaddyathink?


ps still looking for wat 5x09 🙂 here's hoping!

ok. er...

next eztv site needs a simple request system for existing old torrents with no
seeds, to be listed on the front page.

better?

i could try and get it even shorter if you want. 😉

fair enough. to be honest i'd always thought that was the case and never
bothered making reseed requests before, for exactly the reasons you give.

when it worked so well, for so many episodes, for so many people (to my great
surprise) i just thought that maybe it was a good but simple way to extend the
torrents' lifetimes, and add a bit of functionality in the next version of the site.

still, i can certainly see scrubbing the old messages for the torrents, but i do
hope you don't dump the torrents themselves - but it's the admins' decision of
course (you included).

we don't host the torrents, so if our mirrors decide to keep them it is purely
up to them.

as for the reseed feature, it's not our primary goal and will clutter up the site
even more than what it is at now. will keep it in mind though.

it's a nice idea, but i agree with aydin. this site is primarily for new
torrents. there are plenty of other sites out there that provide older stuff,
and full seasons. if you are only missing a couple of episodes, use you torrent
client to select the entire season, then simply deselect the eps that you
already have.
by doing what you have suggested, it will make a whole lot of extra work for the
admins. you have to remember that they do this for the love of it. they don't
get paid a red cent (or any other colour for that matter!) there are plenty of
other sites that cater for what you are requiring.

admin : wrong thread - post removed

where do i post then? i cant create a new post so i am kinda lost here guy.

admin : hxxps://eztv.it/index.php?forum=view_thread&tid=9264

admin : you already said it and in the right place, no need for redundancy

isn't that kinda sorta what the show requests thread is for?

as far as i can see, under current site/forum rules, yes, this is what the show
requests thread is for.

i just see a difference between asking for new shows that haven\'t been capped
and uploaded (where you get a lot of requests that are never going to happen,
and the noise to signal ratio is high, and to answer \'yes\' requires that the
show broadcast or dvd - if available - be recorded, encoded, and uploaded) and
asking for old episodes that have already been uploaded to be reseeded by
generous people who have them and may want to give back (which requires
reloading the torrent and hitting \'start\'). the latter is very much in the
spirit of p2p, and the direct opposite of leeching, and it\'s pretty easy to do.

another less elegant but much simpler way (for the site admins/coders, anyway)
would be to have a special \'show reseed\' or \'episode restart\' thread,
different from the \'show requests\' thread. it wouldn\'t have the same impact
as a special system, but would help - at least that way there would be less
forum posts of the \'sssseeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeedddddddd\' variety 🙂

oh, and i do realise that it would take some coding, which is why i suggested it
for the next version of the site.

to be frank, i think eztv could do with an overhaul.

-the css styles need to be bordered, 'cus on anything larger than a "19 4:3,
they look stretched.
-often show pages don't work, and they're not that exciting when they do... the
repeated image often looks messy.
-rules should be enforced regarding the size of images, often the tv news page
has large, differently sized images that get skewed.

i agree with most things stated. unfortunately i have to work for a living to
run this site, so having spare time to code for it seems to be getting harder.
my schedule is slowly opening up, and the new version of the site does exist
and is getting closer to completion. i don't want to put it live until all
aspects of it is complete (unlike what happened with the current version you
see online now)

so if you can just have a little patience it will be worth it. and for people
who will/have asked i should get people to help code, that i do not wish to do
yet, but thanks for the offers i have received.

i have a very simple feature request. if you let us fill in our location/time-zone, you could put
the airtime next to the shows under 'airs today'.

not sure i'm in the right topic.. but is it possible to add "filesize" column or make filesize info be visible as
a tool tip on the main page? i know that it's listed in the torrent details but making it available directly on
the main page would be great.