Apollo News - Happy birthday Apollo! (News & Site Improvements)
Happy birthday Apollo!
Today, exactly one year ago, the site today known as Apollo opened it's doors to thousands of heartbroken music lovers, following the loss of What.CD. This day, November 24th, marks the anniversary of our tracker!
We would like to take this moment to thank everyone that helped us become one of the biggest private trackers on the net. Because of the tireless community effort put into uploads, we now have a whopping 677 thousand torrents (322k perfect FLACs) and there is still room for more!! In addition to the music, we also have an amazing community, both on the forums and IRC!
A special thanks goes out to all Charlie team members, Interview team members and First-Line Support team members! These members have sacrificed a lot of their precious time in order to make Apollo a great place.
And last but not least, we want to thank every single donor - we wouldn't have been here without you! Security is not cheap, so every single bit counts! Thank you for your generosity!
'Nuff said, where's my birthday present?
Bonus Points have arrived!
To celebrate our birthday, we've launched our brand-spanking new Bonus Point (BP) system will be active as of today! To start off with a bang, everyone has been gifted 10 000 BP, to spend on anything you like in our Bonus Points Shop!
What are Bonus Points? Bonus Points (BP) are an extra reward for seeding and uploading torrents on Apollo. Instead of just getting upload credit for sending data to another user, you will get BP for uploading a torrent to the site, or for seeding a torrent.
Bonus Points Shop You can view the amount of BP you have earned on the top of every Apollo page, although the exact location will differ for the different stylesheets. Clicking it will bring you to the Bonus Points shop, where you can exchange all your hard-earned BP for something nice!
Currently it's possible to buy and give away FL tokens and to buy custom titles. However, there will be lots of cool options in the future! If you think you have more good ideas for items in the BP Store, make sure to drop them in the suggestions forum.
How can you earn Bonus Points? There are currently two ways to gain BP on Apollo: by uploading new torrents and by seeding torrents you have downloaded or uploaded. Apart from these two regular ways to earn BP.
Seeding BP will be given out for seeding according to the following formula:
**BP/Hour = Size (GB) X [0.0433 + {0.07 * ln(1 + Seedtime (days))}/{Seeders0.35)}]
The amount of hourly BP will be calculated with this formula for each torrent, and the total amount of BP (for all the torrents you are seeding) will be added to your profile hourly. It is important to know that the seedtime mentioned in this formula is the total seedtime.
For example: if you seed a torrent for 12 hours a day for 50 days, your seedtime on that torrent would be 25 days.
Notice that with this BP formula, torrents that have a just a few seeders will give a lot more BP than torrents with a lot of seeders. Also, the longer you are seeding a torrent, the more BP you will get. As long as you are seeding them, you will get BP for both uploaded and snatched torrents!
For an overview of all the torrents you are currently seeding, and the BP you are earning with that, have a look at this page!
Uploading You will also be awarded Bonus Points for uploading torrents, the amount of given BP depends on the kind of torrent that you upload:
Quote:
Uploading a perfect FLAC (both 16- and 24 bit count) - 200 BP
Uploading an MP3 320, V0, or V2 or non-perfect FLAC - 30 BP
Uploading a lossy audio torrent that is not one of the 'perfect' MP3 formats. (e.g. MP3 256 or AAC) - 10 BP
This means if you upload a perfect FLAC, and all 3 'perfect' MP3 formats for a given release, you will receive 290 Bonus Points!
Did you find any bugs? We did our best to make this feature as bug-free as possible. However, since it is a big implementation, there might still be a bug or two. If you managed to find one, please report it in this thread and we will resolve it ASAP!
Donor system changes In response to our announcement 10 days ago, we received a lot of good suggestions from the userbase, on how to make donating more attractive and easier. We have decided to implement many of these suggestions, in no special order:
Donations will be rewarded with Bonus Points. For every dollar you donate, you will be awarded 100 BP. For example: a 10 USD donation will give you 1000 BP.
Option for donating in other cryptocurrencies. You are now able to donate via BitCoin, Ethereum, Monero, Bitcoin Cash, Litecoin and Dash as well.
Option for donating with Credit/Debit Card are now also possible. Your donation will automatically be converted to Ethereum and sent to us. (Min. 50 USD donation required)
Staff changes
We have recruited a new developer, Bifrost! Bifrost has been a great help during the development of the new IRC bot and we are sure will be a great help in the future as well! Give Bifrost a warm welcome!
itismadness has been promoted to Lead Developer! Very well deserved, as iim has spent countless of hours developing most (if not all!!) of the APL infrastructure and features, including the new logchecker and BP system!
Happy first birthday Apolloians, and as always:
Love, ~APL Staff
