I nearly missed this because I’m so heavily into Johnny’s. Thank God that today I was looking for more Tohoshinki stuffs and went by jpopsuki. It seems they have moved to a new tracker and that tracker is going to be INVITE ONLY very soon. So please everyone, join while you still can in an easy way.

I knew something was off for a longer period of time, because they never really did fix the RSS issues and most questions got some cranky replies. Well I’m happy to see that either the owner or some new people kickstarted the tracker into a new initiative. It remains one of the important trackers for Asian music/tv.

Here is the new site. A word of warning though: they’ve implemented a ratio system. I can’t possibly be the only one that finds the ordeal a bit confusing. As long as it isn’t too insanely strict, ratio’s are fine by me. The only thing ratio’s tend to do is let torrents die earlier. If there’s not enough peers people tend to avoid those torrents because they can’t get the ratio up. Another lag about the system: if you get a computer crash when you’re bordering you might not get the ratio up high enough.

I lol’d at this remark of staff:

“The biggest amount of our already disabled users because of ratio problems are from Japan and I’d suspect the not understanding/not reading of the ratio rules to be the cause of this.”

Spread the word!

Edit february:

It seems this is now “The Lost JPOP lovers, please invite us” post. Keep in mind that I’m just your average (l)user over there, other than that feel free to comment. I’m sure they’ll open it up again for interval periods. Many torrent trackers that have gone private or are private to begin with operate on that principle. I’ll give a head’s up when that’s the case.