tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6927930273522247223.post5827107883901752419..comments2011-12-04T20:51:25.453-08:00CurlyFrieshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12360893120629347046noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6927930273522247223.post-19834493261119589792008-09-22T12:53:00.000-07:002008-09-22T12:53:00.000-07:00An excellent point. TorrentFries is actually that specialized, but it turned out okay. You might want to think about opening the site to documentaries in general. It's not untrodden ground, but it's also not exactly saturated like other fields.<BR/><BR/>The nice thing about specialized trackers is that they tend to get material in their particular field before the big boys do, giving people a reason to visit. The same goes for your Chinese documentaries; chances are many of them can't be found elsewhere. As you've found, it's not a great draw in the grand scheme of things, but it has given you a member base you can build off of. The first thousand is the hardest.<BR/><BR/>Best of luck with the tracker!CurlyFrieshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12360893120629347046noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6927930273522247223.post-6632220859831346932008-09-22T02:58:00.000-07:002008-09-22T02:58:00.000-07:00Another alternative to check out is the XBTIT code which has been handling my own tracker well for the last six months.<BR/>Still, in the hope that others can learn from my mistakes, do not make your tracker too specialised. I have been collecting documentaries about China for many years and I thought that I would be able to get loads more especially this year. As it is, I seem to have topped out at about two hundred or so torrents and about 600 members. The mistake that i think I made was to pick too specialised a niche and not have a limitless source of new material to rip and up. For me it seems that the most successful trackers (such as my fave UK TV tracker) have an almost limitless resource of new material to keep the site going. If I was going to try another tracker (and I would very much like to in the future) I would choose a resource that has a lot of material. I would probably approach one of the big networks too see if they wanted to release their archive on a tracker. Maybe NHK or PBS or perhaps even TVB Pearl, but certainly one with a big archive so that I would not run out of material again.gipsy_scholarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10031159495203743532noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6927930273522247223.post-31508253138346413972008-09-03T17:35:00.000-07:002008-09-03T17:35:00.000-07:00I still haven't done a whole lot of research, since there doesn't seem to be much point at this stage. I know the aversion to getting my hands dirty wouldn't apply after the amount of customization TorrentTrader has needed, so TBdev would get a longer look if I were to go through a second time around. I've had a number of people recommend Gazelle, which is brand new, but I see it as a little too flashy. I'd crack it open and probably get some good ideas and bits of code from it, but I'm not sure I'd want to go with that one either.<BR/><BR/>I'm just too picky!CurlyFrieshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12360893120629347046noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6927930273522247223.post-70500434527305018332008-09-03T17:20:00.000-07:002008-09-03T17:20:00.000-07:00You mentioned that you only checked out TBdev and TorrentTrader. Knowing what you know now, what tracker would you choose?OnionRingshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17100946140815735171noreply@blogger.com