TorrentVault (TV) has been mentioned on this blog quite a few times. That’s because it’s a great private tracker for general p2p/scene releases, especially TV and music torrents. The site has excellent pre times, good download speeds and a decent amount of activity on most indexed torrents. TorrentVault recently underwent a massive change – they have upgraded to the Gazelle codebase and are now looking better than ever. In addition, their autouploader bots seem to be on steroids – they are now spewing hundreds of scene releases to the tracker daily (including Multilanguage releases). TorrentVault has never opened signups since they moved to Gazelle. However, FILEnetworks readers will now be able to register new accounts on TV through the special signup link mentioned at the end of this post.
TorrentVault is by no means a new private tracker. The older, TBDEV powered version of the site had been around for years. By now it’s a well established site with over 6000 active members and close to 10000 torrents. Many are unaware of it but TV actually has better pre times than other larger, better known torrent sites – for example, it’s television torrent upload times are on par with (and sometimes beat) trackers such as SCC, ScT and TL. Most of the good pre times are thanks to scripts that automatically upload releases to the tracker (aka autouploaders). TorrentVault’s autouploader bots upload more than 100 torrents to the tracker every day. During yesterday alone there’s been ~125 scene releases uploaded to the tracker (this includes muti-language releases).
TorrentVault does index a lot of TV releases – if you are focused on downloading single episode torrents and not many full season packs, you wouldn’t need a specialized TV tracker to get them if you have an account on this site. But make no mistake – it doesn’t only have TV torrents. Music, games, movies and other general stuff is readily available too. Below is a screen of TV running on its brand new Gazelle implementation:
Speaking of Gazelle, they’ve just upgraded and some features of the site are still being worked on (that’s what the current logo is all about). There’s been a lot of recent changes along with Gazelle migration and tons of new features are in the works as well. A summary of changes and upcoming features are given below (quoted from a new post on TV)
Changes
Site is now viewable in up to 256bit SSL encryption, simply visit https instead of http
Our IRC New Torrent Announcement has been cosmetically updated and due to this.. TV AutoDownloader v2.2.9 has been Updated by Ze0de.
NEW tagging system. Usually hundreds of torrents are Uploaded daily so its nice to be able to control which are torrents you haven't looked at.
When you make a Request or Fill a request it is announced on IRC now!
Upcoming Features/Fixes
Free leech and the return of the "SPAM" section - A second browse page showing only spam categories such as Appz/0day, Ebooks, MP3 etc.. and these categories will be hidden from the main browse Torrents page
Browser compatibility - We are aware that the site looks atrocious in IE and some features arent functioning properly in IE.
Upcoming competitions planned so get out your Photoshop
Genres next to pretime for MP3 coming soon!
As we mentioned at the start of this article, TorrentVault is closed for signup. However, you can use the special signup link below to create an account for yourself. Note that this link will only work for a limited time – during that time, the number of users that can sign up through it is unlimited :)
Site Name: TorrentVault (https://www.torrentvault.org)
Signup URL:
https://www.torrentvault.org/friends_of_filenetworks_blog_limited_signup.php
Please be sure to read the rules and FAQ once you sign up – do not abuse this opportunity.
Special thanks to ‘Demonic’ and rest of TorrentVault staff
