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> Was any data lost between the two services? Yes, absolutely, a lot. Even though some people have automated their setup very well and have been downloading (

> Was any data lost between the two services? Yes, absolutely, a lot. Even though some people have automated their setup very well and have been downloading (and uploading on the newer trackers) a lot, it's just a giant amount of content, it's unlikely for any one person to have it all, and coordination was very limited back then. The birthday release of the torrent db of what.cd includes 2.6m torrents in 1.2m groups (aka individual releases), in total weighing in at 588TB (or 421TB is you discard mp3, but there was content that hadn't been available in FLAC). That's doable on an SWE salary today if you're dedicated, but what.cd was shut down in 2016, and you'd still need to deal with the ratio system during collection.

throwhn0000001 4y ago
after wcd fell some private sftp and dc+ servers came up for about 100 of the top seeding and hoarding members who were all familiar with each other. people regularly shared new content and filled out mussing music in their collections. i dont think it exists anymore but it might. i did not have access but knew several people that did who got me content to complete music sets the combined amount of content on those servers was probably around 100TB but most likely more
- luckylion 4y ago
  Oh, certainly, with some coordination there's a lot you can achieve, and it would probably be much more than 100TB. A friend of mine had barely above 1TB seeding and iirc that was somewhere in the top 450-500, so top 100 probably had much more. It's still a lot to store (and maintain) individually, so unless they're still going with that private exchange, each tracker end could mean someone not migrating to the next installment and their part of the library being lost. The Eye is doing a lot of public-ish work in that area (seen with very mixed feelings in the tracker scene, because apparently they're not just archivists but also jerks).

throwhn0000001 4y ago

after wcd fell some private sftp and dc+ servers came up for about 100 of the top seeding and hoarding members who were all familiar with each other. people regularly shared new content and filled out mussing music in their collections. i dont think it exists anymore but it might. i did not have access but knew several people that did who got me content to complete music sets the combined amount of content on those servers was probably around 100TB but most likely more

luckylion 4y ago
Oh, certainly, with some coordination there's a lot you can achieve, and it would probably be much more than 100TB. A friend of mine had barely above 1TB seeding and iirc that was somewhere in the top 450-500, so top 100 probably had much more. It's still a lot to store (and maintain) individually, so unless they're still going with that private exchange, each tracker end could mean someone not migrating to the next installment and their part of the library being lost. The Eye is doing a lot of public-ish work in that area (seen with very mixed feelings in the tracker scene, because apparently they're not just archivists but also jerks).