A couple years ago when I entered the filesharing...community (which I use in a very broad sense).
The site that actually first interested me was the now HORRID MUF and the (now dead/napping/whatever) MU. MU for lifetime, streaming, and lack of filesize limitations and MUF because it was the only site I'd ever come across with decent organization (including the removal of dead links).
As I turned into a whale/hoarder/sharer I started to have a problem with the lack of quality uploading on MUF (both a lack of HD and a lack of information in filenames and posts).
With everything that has been going on with hosts I've been diving more and more into private trackers and Usenet (although even before I had almost completely transitioned). A few of the private trackers (probably BTN being the top) have VERY impressive organization (and a fantastically tight and helpful community).
However, while I think torrents are great and a lot of the trackers are fantastic, I do a lot with old content and big content. Usenet can store that but lack of lifetime quality access to the content, the ridiculously complex and CPU intensive process of getting anything uploaded for sharing, etc. mean I'm gonna be dealing with some other sources as well (although it's a fantastic source and I hope to have it be a part of any site/system I build).
What AMAZES me about all this is how insane everything I've come across is. Millions of posts, millions of completely dead, incoherent and inconsistent naming of files, posts, threads, etc.
As a complete fucking moron (I'm essentially only half a step up from a house-trained monkey playing with a keyboard) I've managed to obsessively put together a couple scripts (mostly just putting it into one) that can/will-be-able-to rename files (and store data, etc.) that I process through my server.
At the moment it's been geared towards TV content (my particular cup of tea), but movies will be easy to add.
Show_Name S##E## Episode_Name Resolution Source Audio_Codec Video_Codec Group_Name
Movie_Title Resolution Source Audio_Codec Video_Codec Group_Name
Some of all this sorting out would be able to parse info from some other places and throw that info in if it can find it all.
Of course, I'd make it so things could be posted and the information filled out (hopefully mostly by getting an NFO|Release_Name and helping the user out as much as possible).
The fact that all this host/corporate bullshit has made anything having to do with links in-fucking-possible, why haven't I come across a site that is doing this with Usenet and/or any of the file hosts?
It feels possible I just haven't spent enough time looking/finding? On the other hand I feel I'd be better informed than the average person even though I haven't been keeping up.
Is there some huge wall I'm just not seeing yet? Does anyone have reason to think actual users are somehow opposed to this? I'm...confused.
The site that actually first interested me was the now HORRID MUF and the (now dead/napping/whatever) MU. MU for lifetime, streaming, and lack of filesize limitations and MUF because it was the only site I'd ever come across with decent organization (including the removal of dead links).
As I turned into a whale/hoarder/sharer I started to have a problem with the lack of quality uploading on MUF (both a lack of HD and a lack of information in filenames and posts).
With everything that has been going on with hosts I've been diving more and more into private trackers and Usenet (although even before I had almost completely transitioned). A few of the private trackers (probably BTN being the top) have VERY impressive organization (and a fantastically tight and helpful community).
However, while I think torrents are great and a lot of the trackers are fantastic, I do a lot with old content and big content. Usenet can store that but lack of lifetime quality access to the content, the ridiculously complex and CPU intensive process of getting anything uploaded for sharing, etc. mean I'm gonna be dealing with some other sources as well (although it's a fantastic source and I hope to have it be a part of any site/system I build).
What AMAZES me about all this is how insane everything I've come across is. Millions of posts, millions of completely dead, incoherent and inconsistent naming of files, posts, threads, etc.
As a complete fucking moron (I'm essentially only half a step up from a house-trained monkey playing with a keyboard) I've managed to obsessively put together a couple scripts (mostly just putting it into one) that can/will-be-able-to rename files (and store data, etc.) that I process through my server.
At the moment it's been geared towards TV content (my particular cup of tea), but movies will be easy to add.
Show_Name S##E## Episode_Name Resolution Source Audio_Codec Video_Codec Group_Name
Movie_Title Resolution Source Audio_Codec Video_Codec Group_Name
Some of all this sorting out would be able to parse info from some other places and throw that info in if it can find it all.
Of course, I'd make it so things could be posted and the information filled out (hopefully mostly by getting an NFO|Release_Name and helping the user out as much as possible).
The fact that all this host/corporate bullshit has made anything having to do with links in-fucking-possible, why haven't I come across a site that is doing this with Usenet and/or any of the file hosts?
It feels possible I just haven't spent enough time looking/finding? On the other hand I feel I'd be better informed than the average person even though I haven't been keeping up.
Is there some huge wall I'm just not seeing yet? Does anyone have reason to think actual users are somehow opposed to this? I'm...confused.