It's coming... it's COMING... SOON (TM)... IT'S HERE!

The long awaited, highly anticipated, definitely not amalgamated brand spanking new logchecker has arrived.

The new logchecker contains a lot of new features and improvements compared to the previous one. The most important of these are:

• Verifies submitted logs against the EAC/XLD logchecker
• No more log boosting
• Translates EAC logs in non-English languages to English for viewing on the site with accurate scores
• Allows trumping of torrents that are missing or have invalid checksums (primarily affecting EAC 0.99 rips)
• EAC 0.95 and earlier versions are given a -30 deduction
• Not being able to verify gap handling is -10 points
• Gap handling appended to next track is -5 points
• Unrecognized logs are given a score of 0 instead of 1
• Stores the raw log files (as well as the parsed log) to allow for easier future re-scoring

What happens to all existing logs?

We will make sure all existing logs will be rescored with the new logchecker. This process might take a few weeks. As soon as the rescoring is completed, there will be a graceperiod in which the original uploaders can replace any torrents that do not score 100 anymore in the new logchecker. Once this grace period has ended, anybody is free to trump these torrents!

We will announce when this graceperiod starts and ends.

You can view this forum thread to comment and point out any bugs. As always, your suggestions for improvements are welcome.

The Dearly Departed

Time marches on and with the passing of time some of our staffers realized that time was moving them in another direction. With that being said, we bid adieu to some great people who helped put hammer to nail, drilled the holes to place the screws, cement the bricks, lay the floor tiles and wired the lighting; building and supporting our home and library:

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Each of them served Apollo in their own unique way, making contributions of time, effort and sweat. They will not be forgotten.

The Newly Acquired

Making their way to the stage are Apollo's bright new stars. New people bring new ideas to tackle the old challenges that seem to rear their ugly heads at the most inopportune times. They are up for these tasks. And heeerrre they are!

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Congratulations, salutations, balloons, party hats and noise makers to the outstanding newly minted members of our fabulous FLS squad. FLS are the ones who oil the gears, polish the knobs, delve into the nooks and crannies and do all the tiny tasks which add up to solving those huge problems we can't attend to. They get more done with a roll of handi-wipes than a foreman could with a full industrial strength work crew and git 'er done' half the time! Our IN-team has formed into a solid unit. The gatekeepers are back in full swing once again.


We are rapidly approaching our one year anniversary. You can only guess what surprises are in store, the future holds many mysteries. We ain't making no grandiose promises of pie in the sky or raining M&Ms, but we think you're going to like what's coming down the alley. And it sure ain't no bowling ball!

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With huge, tremendous and very nice amounts of love,

~APL Staff