You read that correctly, but before we get into the details, we have something important to say to you:


We heralded What.CD's one millionth torrent in an announcement posted on December 22nd, 2010 which proclaimed that "one million torrents is not the end, that much is obvious". Just a few years later, on October 29th, 2014, What.CD reached a new milestone which underscores the strength of that claim: two million torrents have been lovingly curated by this incredible community. Well done! This is a real achievement for any site—especially one with a music-first focus. Most importantly, we've accomplished this while maintaining our identity and values. We owe this celebration to you: the users.

While staff may handle reports, you're in the trenches, digging through crates of old records, buying CDs, downloading WEB releases, and sharing your love of music with the world. You are the ones who help edit this abundance of material, who maintain the front lines of quality control as we work toward archival perfection. You are the ones who help organize the massive collection, and who have made it double in size in just under four years.

At this time we'd like to recognize an outstanding community member who, by our tally, uploaded torrent number 2,000,000: numnumjuice! The award-winning torrent is, fittingly, a Perfect FLAC, and can be found here. We'll be granting a guest pick to numnumjuice in an upcoming celebration in honor of his achievement. Many thanks as well to tobbez, who made some sweet graphs highlighting our run up to lucky number 2,000,000.

We'd also like to recognize the ten users who uploaded the most torrents in the last month. Without these dedicated members, we wouldn't have been able to make the final push as quickly as we did. Thanks to them (and everyone who came before, of course) we achieved this feat midway through our birthday celebration. You can't buy that kind of timing.

Goon3r with 2,516 uploads.
orangeyouglad with 1,993 uploads.
karamanolev with 1,429 uploads.
sonicloop with 1,350 uploads.
MikeBones with 626 uploads.
BenchtopGin with 594 uploads.
A user with paranoia turned on with 587 uploads.
frankenzap with 559 uploads.
basedg0d with 539 uploads.
killasnake0 with 538 uploads.

Each of these members will also receive a guest pick in an upcoming celebration. We offer our sincere thanks to these ten, and to all users who continue to push What.CD forward. The community deserves a reward for all this hard work, so today marks the launch of our third and final stress test. We think you'll like it. Here are the details:

Music torrents under 1GB and uploaded before this announcement are now FREELEECH!
Music torrents over 1GB and uploaded before this announcement are now NEUTRAL LEECH!
Non-music torrents uploaded before this announcement are now NEUTRAL LEECH!
Music torrents uploaded after this announcement, regardless of size or group, will be NORMAL LEECH.
Non-music torrents uploaded after this announcement will be NORMAL LEECH
This event will end on November 9th, 2014 at 23:59 site time.


REMEMBER:


ALL TORRENTS UPLOADED AFTER THIS ANNOUNCEMENT IS POSTED
WILL BE NORMAL LEECH.

AND

ONLY TORRENTS UNDER 1GB WHICH WERE UPLOADED PRIOR
TO NOVEMBER 6TH, 2014 WILL BE FREELEECH.

AND

THIS EVENT WILL END ON NOVEMBER 9TH AT 23:59 SITE TIME.
(check the footer at the bottom of each page to find the site time)

AND

THIS IS AN ACTUAL STRESS TEST, SO SITE STABILITY MAY VARY
DURING THE EVENT.


...AND NOW LET'S PARTY!

I've gone mad and downloaded and started seeding 1000+ torrents. My seedbox from seedboxes.cc is taking it like a champ. Another plus for seedboxes.cc