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    Csatlakozott:
    2012. április 05.
    Hozzászólások:
    5,810
    Kapott lájkok:
    1,815
    Beküldött adatlapok:
    0
    Hi everyone,
    I'm sure you've all been wondering what has been going on with Bibliotik these past few months - the tracker and website have been struggling, and we haven't really commented on it. This was our mistake and we apologize. Our long-time members will know that this isn't the first time we've had such issues; Bibliotik has a long history of these sorts of errors, and while they've been fixed in the past, they seem to always creep back in. We've known about the errors, and we've tried to resolve them, but until very recently it has simply not been possible with our small team of volunteers. Many of our wonderful members have offered us their assistance, but we've been too damn proud to accept it. We know that this was a mistake and apologize that our hubris has nearly destroyed a place we all love.
    The problems all stem from the rapid (and unexpected) growth of the site, which is not in itself a bad thing, but the tracker is not scalable enough to handle it. We've expanded enormously since our last server upgrade, now boasting over 150,000! torrents and thousands of awesome users. As staff, it was our job to make sure that the site could cope, and in that regard we have failed. Another of our biggest failures is the lack of transparency around this whole situation, but today that all ends.
    Simply put, the tracker is just not coping with the stress and has drastically affected the performance of the site itself as well. That won't come as much of a surprise to anyone who has tried to seed or download, or even just use the site. There are several options for how to continue:
    Try adapting a more performant tracker to our system, or vice versa: Bibliotik was built completely from scratch - our website and tracker are both custom systems which weren't designed for a site as big as this. Ocelot is a popular alternative that many of you will have seen elsewhere. It is currently our top choice, but our database is very different from Gazelle's, and it will require a lot of reworking to make everything play nice.
    Move to entirely new hardware: this is the great dream. Unfortunately it is a logistical nightmare and something to only be undertaken if absolutely necessary.
    Throw in the towel and shut down: despite the fact that we've been silent for so long, this is simply not something we are willing to consider. Bibliotik is a great resource, and its loss is not something we want on our consciences.
    We value any advice you may have on these matters, we were too stubborn to accept help before, but that ends now. The option we are currently pursuing is the improvement/ change of our tracker. We've reached out to staff at other trackers who have offered their insights, and we really appreciate the work that they're doing to help us. We're going to open up a suggestions thread where the community can voice their ideas and we can evaluate potential solutions. We need your help, and we're happy to admit it.
    The idea of donations has been thrown around a lot, and if we decide to move to new hardware, they will likely be necessary. In the past we have been against donations (again, our own fault) and if we do decide to open them up, we will need to do some investigation into what the best options are, as PayPal is no longer safe. It may not come to a hardware change if we can fix our problems with a new tracker, so we may not need donations at all.
    If you have any expertise that you feel can help the site, please PM SierraX, alevevia, dionymnia, devnull or prettygreat.
    In the meantime, we will be temporarily suspending invites and recruitment as of 11:59 UTC today, 2015-07-25. We love bringing new people in, but this is not how new users should experience the tracker.