What.cd's Gazelle on GitHub

Re:What.cd's Gazelle on GitHub by calpaterson on Wednesday July 10, 2013 @10:53AM (#6020085)

If you want to start a bittorrent tracker but don't want to bother with all of the trouble of things like Gazelle, you might like thehighseas, a straightforward bittorrent tracker I wrote:

https://github.com/calpaterson/thehighseas

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Re:What.cd's Gazelle on GitHub by dewey on Wednesday July 10, 2013 @11:52AM (#6020557)

That's a different league though. Gazelle provides a lot more than just listing torrents.

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Re:What.cd's Gazelle on GitHub by calpaterson on Wednesday July 10, 2013 @12:56PM (#6021060)

Absolutely, I just thought I'd mention it in case people want to get into bittorrent but want an easier way to get started

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Re:What.cd's Gazelle on GitHub by lysa on Wednesday July 10, 2013 @12:29PM (#6020861)

I'm not sure about that. Feature-wise it might be in a different league but the code is absolutely horrible.

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Re:What.cd's Gazelle on GitHub by FZeroX on Wednesday July 10, 2013 @12:24PM (#6020829)

Gazelle isn't actually a tracker though - it's a web front-end / torrent website, but doesn't actually do the tracking part itself.

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Re:What.cd's Gazelle on GitHub by calpaterson on Wednesday July 10, 2013 @12:54PM (#6021047)

Thanks - but having written a bittorrent tracker + web interface, I'm aware of the distinction. Most people who want to set up something simple don't actually care though, and my hope is that thehighseas helps people get started sharing with friends.

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Re:What.cd's Gazelle on GitHub by FZeroX on Friday July 12, 2013 @06:36AM (#6031888)

Sorry, I didn't mean to patronize your face off - was clarifying more for the benefit of other readers who are not so au fait with the infrastructure :)

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