Occasionally I notice certain bittorrent clients pounding our tracker. When I google them, I see that this is common for that version. They are often old bittorrent clients. Today I noticed an older version of Transmission (actually XTorrent, which is based on an earlier version of Transmission) pounding away so now XTorrent and versions earlier than 0.72Z of Transmission are banned. I am sorry to have to do this, but clients that pound like that really cause a load on the server.

TTD recommends you keep up-to-date on your clients. Commonly used, and recommended, clients include uTorrent and Azureus.

Both the official BitTorrent and uTorrent clients are vulnerable to a remote denial-of-service attack, due to the way they handle user-supplied data. Versions found to be vulnerable so far are the official BitTorrent 6.0 client, uTorrent 1.7.x, uTorrent 1.6.x and uTorrent 1.8-alpha-7834. Read more here.

You may have noticed, but you now must be logged in to view the torrent forums. If you are using RSS feeds for those forums, you must use a viewer that allows you to put in a username/password for the forums or else you won't continue to get the feeds for those forums.

We've updated the forum software. There are a few small problems we are working on. If you notice one, or wonder if we have noticed it, please use this thread to reportread about any problems.

It seems that BitTorrent version 5.0.7 does not want to play well with the tracker. This has been going on for a while, but as we get more peers on the tracker, it has become more of an issue. It is mainly v5.0.7 that is causing problems, but other 5.0 versions have pounded the tracker as well. So, starting Monday October 29, BitTorrent v5.0 will be banned from our tracker. It is suggested you change your client now, not wait until your can't download and then get upset about it. See out notice here.

Because of continued denial of service attacks on our server, we have to take some necessary steps to curtail this activity. We have found that sometimes legitimate users are getting banned from the site. Please make sure your bittorrent client is set to obey our tracker interval and does not pound our server. If you do happen to get blocked from the site (in which case you will not be able to see the site), please contact us at thetradersden at gmail dot com and provide your IP so we may unblock you.

Our host had network problems today, I guess their router decided today was a good day to break. As a result, the site was down for about 4.5 hours. I try to keep people updated on our Status Blog when things like this happen. Feel free to bookmark that site for future reference.

I've had quite a few people ask lately why their account has been deleted - as we stated before in the Note "Pruning Inactive Users" - We delete accounts that have been Inactive (you haven't logged in) for more than twelve months with less than 100 posts AND also accounts that have been Inactive for more than six months with no posts. If you think your account was deleted because of inactivity, but now you want to join the site again, feel free to register again. If you don't want your account deleted within six months, then login at least every six months. We don't see a reason to keep a bunch of 'dead' accounts around.