Elite level 10 tracker closed down. Plus UK-T ressurection.

The biggest and one of the oldest level 10 trackers that has gone through quite a few domain and name changes during the last decade has sadly enough closed down.

Other news is that new (old) UK-Two joins the list at level 7. Former old elite tracker UK-t(orrents) has opened up once again after it's death some months ago because of a CD/DVD seller who named UK-t as his online supplier of copied material when he was caught. This is apparently not just a copy cat by people not related to the old site. As it turns out some of the old staff is running the site. And quite a few of the old members recieved invitations.
Recently there has also been invites  handed out to all members:

UK-two has given everyone invites for limited time
Invite a friend weekend
Lots of new stuff going on in the background people, more about that over the next 48 hrs
In the meantime we are going to have an “invite a friend” weekend, invites have been give out as follows:
User 1 Invite
PU up 2 Invites
Uppers 3 Invites

Invites are available on your accounts now for a limited time, as ever please take care to invite people you can trust and who will be active on site.

Other changes to the list are: FTN up one level to level 8. Ts-Tracker up one level to level 7. x264 up one level to level 6. CHDBits gets a lot of requests so it moves up two levels to level 5.

Updates, updates, updates..

Sorry for not being able to update lately, have had a lot to do irl.

Skittles dead, AOM pending (moving up?), FTN pending (moving up?), EotW moving down, TS-Tracker moving up, x264 moving up, TopHos moving down, Swebits dead, sceneXpress/seX pending (down/dead?), DesiTorrents added, CN resurrection/name change (TBH).

Random [#] changes.

Ok, guys. In need of help when it comes to HD movie trackers - names, levels, ratings etc..

CN goes Phoenix goes CN

What happened when CN crashed was that a lot of members along with staff migrated to PTFiles (old Phoenix torrents) and some members joined PtN.
CN staff was meant to be working with PTFiles to make a new CN-like general tracker. But now it seems a one year old copy of the db has been found and CN will be up and rockin' again.

From IRC:

The first rule is. Tell EVERYONE from CN that CN is BACK. The second rule is tell them to KEEP their TORRENTS. Third Rule is follow through with the first and second rule like a mofo.

CN, Filelist/Filepost & GFT update

CN or better known as Cosa Nostra is no more. A sad day for the torrent world. Both loved and hated, CN was a very good tracker. Nice layout, enthusiastic staff and a well managed bonus and permanent seed system which made the retention of movies exceptionally good. And causing a lot of drama due to its wanted secrecy might have been unnecessary but oh so fun. R.I.P.

Due to personal, technical, and other unforeseen circumstances the site put on some cement shoes and is now swimming with the fishes. - Bumrocks

Filepost.org former known as Filelist.org is one of the oldest and best known old school 0-day trackers still in function. No one except for staff knows how many users there are. Invites have been closed for longer than time itself. Most members have accepted that Filepost is a sinking ship and a lot of members have already changed to other trackers for their daily needs. There have been numerous posts in the forum about opening sign ups or giving out invites during the last years but the calls have gone unanswered. Until now.

Invites script installed, once we do some testing, we plan to make some invites available to power users only.

 Also one old music site is going down but will be merged with the new revival of Filepost.

FileMP3's going to merge with us given their financial difficulties, there's even a Music category in the browse page here already.

GFT, the hard-to-get-into and notorious trader hunting 0-day tracker was very close to go down one level. You only needed to idle in the IRC for a couple of days to gain enough points which then could be used to buy invites. Now it seems all invites have been changed back to bonus points. It seems though that when donations reach 100% the possibility to buy invites will be back. The bonus point price for one invite is yet unknown. The tracker stays at its current level.

x264 stays

x264.me is a x264-only tracker. Movies range from 1.4GiB DVDRips to 13GiB 1080P rips. Allowing only a smaller amount of users the tracker has quite some amount of exclusivity associated with it. Demand for a membership has risen lately and people offering invites is not seen as often as for other high def. trackers. Still, there are quite a few threads in power user forums at different trackers offering invites for free to good and trusted users.
The people have spoken and the poll shows that x264 will stay at its level which has been and still is at level 4.

BCG again

BCG has always been the king of game trackers. Most would say that it still is but to be honest BCG has lost much of its former glory during 2010. A year ago BCG tried a new invite system using referrals. They changed their login page to a fake one and they made up a personal random word that you had to write in a search box before being able to login with your ordinary username and password.
According to BCG this was done as a security measure. But the invite referral system was flawed.
Referrals wasn't easy to get a hold on. And the person you invited had to have your secret word in order to sign up and the sign up process had to be done in a couple of hours after the mail had been sent out. What happened was that people didn't bother to sign up. And people started using other game trackers instead of BCG.
We all know what happened after that. No new members meaning no new donors. BCG has now had open sign ups for the last couple of months looking for new members.
BitGamer on the other hand has closed invites in preparation for a new invite system. Hopefully they won't make the same mistake as BCG.

It definitely feels like most of the new accounts on BCG are dupes because of the vast amount of accounts found at different trading sites. And with no stop in sight when it comes to open sign ups the former king of gaming now finds itself at level 2.

iTN R.I.P.

iTN v.2.0 is terminated after a couple of months downtime. From the front page:

Prawie dwa lata. Męk, pisania kodu, płacenia, grafikowania. Dwa lata dobrej zabawy, myślenia, miliony literek na komunikatorach, tysiące słów na konwersjach na Skype. Z dniem 15 Listopada 2010 ja (Kuba1530) oraz załoga z iTN 2.0 postanowiliśmy, że projekt zostaje finalnie zakończony. Nie wrócimy. Nigdy. Projekt był warty uwagi, ale niestety nasze nieudolne zarządzanie zrobiło swoje. Nie będę się rozpisywał. Chciałbym teraz podziękować: Krzyś - Ty ze mną współpracowałeś głównie. Było miło, ale się różniliśmy. Neo (Świętej Pamięci) za doskonały pierwszy layout. Barti17144 za inne layouty. Ast89 - za pomoc w cięciu i układaniu. Kostelihno - za inne layouty. Starym załogantom oraz tym, którzy byli w wersji 2 - także dziękuję. Osobom, które czasem pomogły w kodzie, również dziękuję. Osoby te będą wiedzieć, że o nie chodzi. Nie będę się rozpisywał. Dziękujemy za poświęcony czas.

I don't know anyone that understand polish but it says something about "terminated", "thanks to whoever" and other stuff.

Spare us the v3.0 resurrection of iTN. Please!