b"By now you've noticed the empty spaces on the site where the ads served up by Google Adsense usually are. Well, there's a good reason for that or I should say a Bad reason for that.\r\n\r\nRecently, a torrent file was uploaded that was titled with Adult themes and content. Google takes this very seriously (as do we …

b"That's right. This week we've made improvements to the Google+ 1 button thats on EVERY torrent. Now, when you +1 a torrent and share it with your Google+ feed, it pulls the screenshot if available and the description of the torrent so you don't have to do any work other than hit the submit button. So what are you wa…

b"If you tried to visit Linuxtracker earlier this week, the site was at a dead crawl. The problem appeared to have been a flood of incoming connections to the torrent port 2710. You can see this in the spike of incoming traffic on the bandwidth graph below.\r\n\r\nthis was causing connections to the server to stall or…

b"Well, its the day that has been building in the US for at least the past two years. We're not going to tell you who to vote for (as we can't agree on that ourselves) but we do want to make sure that if you're in the States you get out and exercise your right to vote. Otherwise, you don't have a right to complain.\r\…

b"So if you haven't noticed, the site seems to be running better than it has in a while. Last week, we switched from Apache2 to lighttpd and the responsiveness of the site has improved greatly! There are still a few minor bugs we're working out, but otherwise, we're pretty happy with the site and some of the improveme…

b"Well, its fall here in the northern hemisphere and after the excitement of last week, we're ready for a break.\r\n\r\nWe've updated the site and added a ton of new features and we're still working on more. Today, we updated the server to Debian Squeeze and it is running faster than ever before (tell me you don't not…

b"If you have been to Linuxtracker.org any time in the past several months you'd have noticed that there were things that weren't always quite right with the site. Lately, those things have been getting bigger and bigger... to the point that we wanted to fix them with more than chewing gum and duct tape.\r\n\r\nSo, th…

b"You may notice that downloads for older torrent files are not working. The server was hacked last week through a different site that is hosted here. Who/what ever hacked the server removed files from random locations. Anything uploaded Prior to the weekend had the torrent files removed.\r\n\r\nI'm trying to see if I…

b"If you haven't noticed it yet, take a look around Linuxtracker and you'll notice some small changes being made here and there. The changes are mostly to the look and feel of the site and shouldn't affect how the site operates.\r\n\r\nThere may be brief periods of disruption where the website is unavailable, however,…

b"We're going to try something new with the account verification process, we're going to put the process back in to your hands. Instead of replying to an email to let the admins know that you do exist, all you have to do is click a link to verify now. Check and make sure that mail from linuxtracker.org is not ending u…