Originally Posted by
CelestialRain
This is all fair. I guess I should maybe have added that it is in comparison to other sites that I am familiar with.
Not using a forum is fine its just different to not see it there and to have discord as a replacement well.... I'm in far to many servers as is and I have stopped joining random servers because its just to many things thrown in a folder that i never look at. i have maybe 3 or 4 servers that i frequent because i am actively gaming in them. joining a server for a torrent site doesn't work for me.
As for rules Its just something I'm accustomed to checking as soon as I make an account on any tracker (especially since I've only recently started using private trackers in the past month.) Usually this is just a repeat of what I already know from other trackers with variation in things like user classes and uploading rules and rewards and such. I don't personally need the rules to tell me how to behave and what good seeding is meant to look like besides the specific ratios. So maybe a Rules page isn't appropriate here because there aren't any specific guidelines but I think a FAQ page with a generalized explanation of what is considered to be good seeding behavior as well as some information about the site and how its run would be a nice addition.
While all your other points make a lot of sense to me and I can see where they are beneficial I would still argue that not having any uploading or requests would limit the content because 1 person only has access to so much. Now I haven't seen any information about where the content is coming from or anything of the sort either and maybe it doesn't only come from one person and that would be the kind of thing I would like to see in a FAQ page. I very well may be wrong and information about how the site works could be the thing that changes my mind but that information isn't really available and Id argue that it isn't abundantly clear to anyone new to the site.
And with all this I should also add that I don't hate the look of the site I actually appreciate that its not taken up with large banners and extensive amounts of clutter. It looks very clean and appealing.
Anyway this is still all opinions based on only a couple days and the very limited information available.
I've looked in the forums for information or a review that might have some details and didn't come up with anything so if there is one out there I wouldn't mind knowing more about it.
