FTN opened the doors!

[Marcelo]

Yes but for entirely different reasons.

Yes trading/giveaways/requests all have a high failure rate for ftn.

But the fact still remains that their are 10 trades for 1 request right now.

Intr4ns1t could you explain this to me? Because I don't see anything wonderful about those stats.

[D-Tes]

Wasn't Austin obsessed with M-V? Is it FTN now?

[banano008]

Nope, they won't budge. Not even if load-times suffer worse than a ddos attack :P

lol well I'd rather the site didn't load at all than it went P2I

[Wowww]

To explain Burnsy's message in one line:

A tracker can remain alive with no seeders, but it can't without the donors.

if we want to go further, no long-time seeders/uploaders means no donors...

[Flappy Hoohah]

To explain Burnsy's message in one line:

A tracker can remain alive with no seeders, but it can't without the donors.

[Eric L]

You are misinterpreting the data.Hardly anyone is newbish enough to think that an ill-conceived request on some dubious internet invite board will get them into FTN hence few if any requests.
On the other hand as been stated many,many times FST remains a preeminent haven for trading in a climate where such places are becoming increasingly rare so obviously anyone of that ilk with a FTN invite to offer( or wanting one) is probably going to ( unfortunately) try their luck here.

[badsoccerman]

I don't know if they updated the rules since but..... 36 hours or 1:1 ratio is their rules listed here.

[Mofobling]

You are neglecting the second part of that post or unfortunately totally missing the point.
Getting into FTN is essentially no easier or harder than any other place ,either someone invites you or they don't.True in the case of FTN they are is a smaller userbase and therefore ( probably) fewer available invites but it's more about your perceived "need " than actual difficulty .

[speaking for all men]

but don't you think it's more important to actually be able to afford the hardware to run your site first?

I don't think that is the member's problem.

I donate because I like how a website is ran... Not because I want to make sure the server bill is payed by the end of the month.
You shouldn't create a tracker with the assumption that the bill will be payed in donations every month...

In addition I pay dearly for my internet bill every month, so I find it highly offensive that you regard seeding as a lesser to donors.
Matter of fact if your a seeder, you are a donor. Your using your bandwidth which is money in today's world.

I could use a 56k modem and donate 5 dollars a month and save tons of of money. But I am more concerned about people receiving their files.

[Twilighter1995]

good job, did mommy and daddy tell u that u is a letter? maybe they should also explain to u that this is the internet, not english 101. i guess "u" already knew that!

Now you just look like you're 13 years old, which if you are, that's fine. If you aren't, congratulations you've managed to turn back time.