Dig, Lazarus, Dig! - Dealing With Undead and Spring Cleaning


Redacted is swiftly closing in on one million torrents, thanks to the hard work and care of the user-base! We would like to personally say "Thank you!" for the outstanding effort. The Redacted staff achieved an important but less visible victory by catching up on the report backlog. On that note, please report torrents if you suspect an issue as this will allow our staff team to investigate.

The outstanding issue which might otherwise tarnish our celebration of an unbelievable milestone: inactive torrents. After multiple internal discussions, we would like announce a rule change regarding inactive torrents.

Starting 1 May 2017, 00:01 site time, our inactive torrent policy will be the following:

Torrents that are never seeded after uploaded will be automatically marked trumpable after 24 hours. These torrents do not count toward user class promotions. (No change from current policy.)

Torrents which have been unseeded for two weeks (14 days) or more, regardless of age or number of snatches, will become trumpable and may be trumped by an active torrent. (No change from the current policy.)

Torrents which have been unseeded for four weeks (28 days) or more, regardless of age or number of snatches, will be considered dead and will automatically be deleted by the system. (Change from the current policy.)


Please note that seeded torrents have the expectation of data being transferred in a reasonable period of time.

Until 1 May 2017, if you have any torrents which would fall into the third category whether they are your uploads or snatched content, please consider re-seeding them. There is no need to report them for deletion in the meantime. After that, they will be subject to automatic deletion along with other torrents which meet this criteria in the future.

Inactivity trumps will remain the same: torrents which have been unseeded or inactive for two weeks (14 days) or longer may be trumped by an active torrent.

Thank you for all your hard work and dedication to building a living music library!

Wiki Updates & Changes

We appreciate all of the work every single one of you have put in, from snatching and uploading torrents, to expanding the knowledge base and helping out other users.

That being said, we have made a few changes to the way our wiki page works.

• While any user can still create a wiki article, the article has to go through a submission phase. During the submission phase, the article is not available to the public. Once staff approves the article, it becomes viewable.
• All edits must also go through a submission phase. However, unlike the creation submission phase, the edit is view-able immediately by the public, but no further changes can be made until the previous submission has been approved by staff.
• Wiki logs have been moved out of the site log, and into their own log found in the wiki.
• Languages can now be set for wiki articles. Non-English wiki articles can now be linked to English articles. See here for an example.

We understand that this has come out of the blue, but we hope you'll understand our need for quality control. We have also added in some code to help our various teams and staff on the site organize their data for their own internal workings.

Report News

From the beginning of the site we saw a huge influx of torrents, many uploaded in a rush to catalog releases. Combined with the trumpable non-checksum uploads, we had a mountain to climb.

We are happy to report we have scaled the mountain with the help of an incredible torrent moderation team.

New Staff

Please give a warm welcome to our newest moderators, Soda and pancake! Soda has been diligently servicing torrent reports. pancake has been primarily aiding with accounts. Both of these individuals have done an outstanding job and we are excited to see them continue their excellent work.

This was mentioned in our recent blog post, but we thought they deserved to make the front page too:

We would like to introduce Veritas as the newest member of our administration team! Veritas joined staff shortly after the site was started, providing important opinions and feedback. They were instrumental in launching and refining the interview program. In addition to this full-time gig, they found time to assist in other areas of the site. We are extremely grateful and proud to have Veritas join our administration, and we look forward to more of their hard work and contributions.

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Yours always,

-The Redacted Staff