Tribalmixes NewsLetter :: 2009-11-02 :: Free Lottery Tickets

too many News accumulates over time, and so little of this time to point them all out to you, my friends.. this 'broadcast' will be covered through our facebook page, yes, tribalmixes now has a profile and a TM-FB Fan Club. some news and talk go through there, it's a good way to hear brand new developments in case site goes out or any other emergency happens. more than 2 months nothing was said, so now there's quite a few points to consider, please, spend a few minutes on this reading, it's gonna amuse and entertain you, i promise!!

oldest of all, mid september, addition of two new categories and New Category Icons development were suggested, thus new categories are active now, "(tm) Only" and "(tm) Mixes" they are, and torrents carrying such a category become Undead at the end of their appointed 180 days, if 100 snatches were not reached before that. new Icons were introduced, another set was created and published, while many others threatened with creation of their own Icons and never followed through, so we're probably be setting current and those Amiga-like icons changeable via Profile.

newest development is the New DJ Ratings, they are not new, as a matter of fact, but more like renewed. If some [e]-record you've rated quite a while ago pops up in front of you in torrent details or elsewhere, you will be invited to Re-Rate this record if you haven't yet rated it in 2009. this will be our Own Top 100 DJs Poll and will last till the end of 2009, when on January 1st the results will be revealed and published. in the meantime new ratings will be added towards current existing summary and average ratings.

as a separate item, DJ ratings haven't been advancing alot lately, as much as torrent ratings haven't been in most cases plentiful. to try and fix this issue, and to promote some Extra Rating Activities, current rewards of doing it have been increased tenfold, plus a new way to benefit from such actions have been established... now when you rate a Torrent that you have downloaded, you will receive 1 immortal point and 2 Free Tribalmixes Lottery Tickets for the next Raffle. but it gets even better because for submitting your Brand New or Newly Fresh (2009) rating on top of an old one will reward you with 5 immortal points and 3 Free Lottery Tickets. return to your unrated downloads (through my downloads link on the left for instance) daily or weekly, rate them all and receive a bunch of Free Lottery Tickets, win prizes and be happy!! =)

torrent details page has been changed a bit, more info is displayed there now for [e]ntertainment database records, new design elements have been introduced, bigger pictures and easier to read layout. numbers with #s to the right are the Ranks of [e]-records amongst others of their kind (type), and are updated only once every 3-4 hours.

new and exciting Top 20 torrents and users is coming up almost ready, a few touches need to be added, and we will proceed with a Brand New torrent Charts (BillBoard) System, where torrents will be awarded for being one of Top 20 ones in 15-17 categories, thus contributing to torrents' BB-Ratings, which will also produce their Ultimate Charts, where all comments, ratings, snatches, seeds, one word : torrents winners of all 15-17 categories will be considered extremely popular and will be on top of all charts, easy access to which will also be placed on the main page, to promote more downloads on these popular torrents. along with that, torrent sharers will have their own Charts and Ratings, more like 30+ of them, coming just a bit later, they will also produce benefits for the uploaders (meaning all users who share torrents) in top20, small points but still big amounts if taken over days of being first in the Up-Charts. this will be very interesting and should produce some more healthy competition among uploaders.

some technical words at the end... many of us have been hit by several days of site's being unreachable and needing to use proxy servers to access it, that was all due to old server owner's shady activities, thus some routing was blocked, later unblocked, now all is fine and back to normal, although we've taken some steps to eliminate such events' destructiveness in the future. also a few days ago there was a black-out on the server due to repairs, some of us might have noticed that due to messages to restart our peers in our torrent clients. we're always trying to be on the look out for any abnormal site's behavior, but please let us know if some serious errors or bugs come your way, we'll really appreciate that!!


Many things are changing, or are about to change, i'm trying to invest more time into the site's programming and code updates, but it's not easy with real-life demands growing and work loads increasing, recently that crises is finishing (or seems to be), but give me time, and i will finish transferring other Skins into their new formats, i'll add tracklists to be as manageable as torrents, will implement suggestions system and will simply turn everything upside down, but it all needs some time, maybe more helpers would do good as well. have a Happy Halloween and be nice to dead people!! =)))

There are no words to describe how grateful we should be for all your work and effort!!    

I swear that you got this words out of my mind .

I really can't find a way to thank you for your effort , thats why i do my best to keep everything organized as you want it to be  

Great slash, keep up the good work. I hope all the changes will get us what they are supposed to - more users, more donations, more snatches, more happiness.

a little follow up here to this part of TRIBALMIXES TOP 100 DJS POLL. while some users are rating all the djs they can, others are avoiding this process, and we want as many ratings as possible, less than a month is left till the time we must publish the results...

and so a new little feature was added to 'torrents' page - on top of it there will now be 5 [e]-browser entries that you haven't rated (or re-rated) in 2009, thus suggesting for you to rate them, if you please. each page reload there will be new 5 [e]-records, and each record when rated will be replaced by a new (unrated) record.

the system is a bit buggy, but it's functioning well in most cases. hoping, everyone will use it. let's make our POLL as fair as possible!!

Great now we need to the skip button for those djs i never heard about , and we need the facebook share icon over the  forums

yes Slash plz.skip bottom would be nice..i just dont know some djs & dont want to rate them un-fairly just to go to the next one

Willy, Buzzer and others, just give the refresh button a push and it will bring a fresh new lot of djs up to rate. Like you Buzzer i haven't been rating the djs that i haven't heard a mix from.

well yes the refresh button helps but also it takes time to reload the whole page , by having a skip button it will help slow connection users plus it will reduce very long time  in rating , and will help ppl who search for specific djs to rate other that he already had listened too before and  in this case we guarantee the bigger number of rated djs ~~

i tried the refresh botton,,,but it wasnt so nice...anyway slash made the skip botton & made our lives easier....thx alot slash    

Nice.... The skip button works well....

hay guys... help me on this one: I never pick lottery tickets and I always have some taken ... I don't know how 'cause I never take them... and now I see again:
"your tickets numbers (as you've taken them): #612....#613 #614....#615 #1523....#1524"
How's this possible?  

ooohh Buzzer, thank you for answering my question why didn 't I know this yet? where was my brain? :)) cheers mate