TehConnection: News

[Len]

New Features and Scheduled Maintenance

Hi friends,

Sorry it's been a few weeks since an update, but I wanted to take a minute to let you know what's been going on behind the scenes (...get it?) and some of what we have in store for the future.

First, though I've posted it on the forums in a couple places, I'd like to now officially announce that you can enable poster images in place of genre icons on the browse page (and top10) by visiting your edit profile page, and checking off "Enable posters". There's definitely room for improvement on the design side, especially when it comes to the top10, as some have noted, and I'll leave that to our wonderfully creative designers to figure out.

Next, we had a rocky last couple weeks with regard to some of our most used image hosts. While they ended up pulling through, we decided to proceed with a full backup of all images that were hosted there anyway. It went smoothly, and we backed up about 375k images from roughly 33k torrents. The images are stored on and served from our new host, tehimg.eu. We'll eventually be integrating the use of this host into the site.

Finally, I'd like to announce a Scheduled Maintenance, which will start around 1AM UTC on Saturday, July 1, 2017. During this maintenance, we will perform tracker and security upgrades, and both the site and the tracker will be taken offline. The result will be the resolution of several longstanding tracker bugs, and will also allow us to add some new features, such as neutral leech. I expect this to take no more than two hours, and hope it to take much, much less.

Please leave your clients seeding. When the maintenance is finished, no changes will be required on your end.


Thanks all, for your continued support,
Astarael