Happy Birthday!

As you may or may not be aware, today is What.CD’s fourth birthday! This whole week we’re remembering October 27th, 2007, when a few ex-OiNK users banded together to start what they hoped would be a replacement for that great tracker. Little did they know how much more it would become. With that in mind, we have all kinds of fun things planned, so let’s get right to it!
New Features

To start, we have a few new features, coded by moderator Changles. He put a lot of hard work into these, so be sure to thank him in the thread if you enjoy them!

First is an exciting new feature we’re calling freeleech tokens! These tokens allow you to make any torrents up to 1GB in size freeleech for you for 48 hours. As long as you have tokens, you will see a FL button on eligible torrents, next to the usual DL link. Every user has been given fifty tokens to use in the next seven days. That’s up to 50GB of free downloading for all leeching-enabled users! As always, we hope that users will use this feature in good faith and continue to seed anything they download. Have fun, and remember to use all your tokens before the week is up!
Second, we are pleased to announce that starting today, Elites+ and donors can make multiple personal collages! Elites and donating Power Users can have up to two collages, Torrent Masters can have up to three, Power TMs up to four and Elite TM+ up to five. Donors always receive one more than the class maximum. As personal collages, these can be used for whatever genre, theme, or functional purpose one wants. Qualifying users can go to collages.php right now and hit [New collage].
On the collage theme, Power Users+ and donors can now also subscribe to collages to receive updates on new additions. To subscribe to any collage, look for the [Subscribe] link. Then, when new torrents are added by other users, you will receive a notification similar to torrent notifications, so you can stay on top of all your favorite collages.
Fourth, we have a very useful new tool we’re calling inactivity notifications. Users who opt in to this feature will receive a system PM on Sunday if any of their uploads are going to be deleted for inactivity in the eight days following that Sunday. If more than one of their uploads are facing deletion that week, all of them will be listed in the single PM. The inactivity deletion rules can be found here. We hope this helps you keep your uploads alive on the site!
The Do Not Upload list on the upload page is hidden by default for Elite+ users! It’s still important to check for new entries from time to time though. Be responsible!
Finally, forum regulars will notice a new link at the top of every thread called [Search this Thread]. Users can either search the entire content of a thread for text, or quickly find all posts in a thread by a particular user.

irredentia’s Stats Project

Those features aren’t all though. Resident data guru irredentia has been working to compile lots of interesting statistics about the site for its fourth birthday. Over the next week he will be releasing all of them, starting with a countdown of What.CD’s Top 250 Artists by download. There’s more to come, so be sure to thank irredentia for completing this mammoth task for the benefit of the users!
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