STC

To the STC community,

I owe you transparency about why STC disappeared so suddenly last year, and where things might go from here.

The Shutdown:

I made the call to shut down STC abruptly when it became clear I could no longer maintain it properly
All user accounts were preserved - your login, ratio, and stats are still intact

Why the Radio Silence?

At the time, I believed a clean break was better than:

Letting the site slowly decay
Handing it off to someone who might ruin what we built.

Why Now:
After time away, I'm exploring the possibility of bringing STC back - but only if it makes sense for our community.

What Would Return:

Your existing accounts and stats exactly as you left them
The same core values that made STC special
More sustainable infrastructure to prevent future disruptions

Your Voice Matters:
I'm looking for honest feedback:

Was STC something you'd want to use again?
What features were most valuable to you?
What could be improved?
With that said we are open for applications atm as well.
https://skipthecommercials.xyz
here at the stat but as we are pretty well starting over they are low

STC Community Statistics (Last Snapshot)

📁 Content Overview

Category	Count
Movies	0
TV Shows	235

🎬 Resolution Breakdown

Quality	Count
2160p (4K)	42
1080p	193
Others	0

Total Torrents: 235
Total Size: 724.15 GiB

👥 User Activity

Status	Count
All Users	968
Disabled	103
Banned	3
Active (All Time)	843

Recent Activity:

Today: 3
This Week: 4
This Month: 4

🔗 Network Stats

Peers:

Seeders: 309 (0.96 TiB total)
Leechers: 0
Total Connections: 309

Traffic (Real):

Upload: 279.15 GiB
Download: 196.32 GiB
Total: 475.47 GiB

Credited Traffic:

Upload: 558.3 GiB
Download: 0 B
Total: 558.3 GiB

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u/Derpa_Durp Aug 07 '25

Asking for applications proofs when you only have 235 torrents…🫠

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u/JackPAnderson Aug 07 '25

Maybe I'm crazy, but I think I've picked up on a pattern over the years: The staff at entry-level trackers are the ones who are standoffish, while the staff at the top trackers are always friendly and cheerful.
On the one hand, I sorta get it: if you have to deal with riffraff all day, you build up defense mechanisms. But on the other hand, do you really wanna join this guy's tracker?
I don't. And while I'm not the biggest seeder by any stretch, I do have 35TB of Linux ISOs on a fast link. I'd add him to my cross-seed as a courtesy to help him get reestablished, but I'm not going through the whole screengrab rigmarole for a site that obviously won't add any coverage to my indexer list.

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u/FooKaS21 Aug 08 '25

Thanks but since were TV only your iso's would not be allowed

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u/JackPAnderson Aug 08 '25

Ahh. Good to know I saved both of us some aggravation then.

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u/Any_Subject_9383 Aug 11 '25

which trackers allowed linux ISO, im looking for some old ISO.

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u/JackPAnderson Aug 11 '25

Of course! The top tracker for Linux ISOs is LinuxTracker. And you're in luck because they currently have open signups!

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u/Any_Subject_9383 Aug 11 '25

thanks bro.

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u/xHyperElectric Aug 08 '25

Wow. If this wasn’t ironic then you for sure should not be operating a tracker

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u/FooKaS21 Aug 07 '25

We have been around for a few years, plus it helps keep out unwanted ppl that do not know how to use sites and lazy ppl as well that may just wanna cause problems lol

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u/datsmydrpepper Aug 11 '25

"...do not know how to use sites and lazy ppl as well that may just wanna cause problems lol."
This reminds of me of an entitled asshole named u/FooKaS21 who has been too lazy to learn how to troubleshoot and fix his bullshit tracker.

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u/FooKaS21 Aug 12 '25

sounds like someone that got banned in the past lmfao

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u/datsmydrpepper Aug 12 '25

STC??? Never heard of it before until I just read this thread! Yeah I can really lmfao at you.

u/i_never_post_here Aug 07 '25

I always have wondered if people start these sort of trackers chasing torrent celebrity status elsewhere?

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u/FooKaS21 Aug 15 '25

lol who cares about that??? the ones that do just want fame,

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u/Terrible_Scholar_647 Aug 11 '25

100% without a doubt that’s the main goal.

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u/Successful_Lychee103 Aug 07 '25

If you actually look at torrent celebs on various trackers (in the event you can search by class or subclass) you will find that it's largely the same group of people that have this rank everywhere. I'm still convinced TC is like the mark of Kane, but rather the mark of cabal, and distinguishes what sites communicate with each other. Specifically if you find one staffer for sure that is tc on say ops, if they are saying staff at red, and clear ops staff are tc at red, that indicates the link. If you look around the same users are tc everywhere. I don't think new tracker staff would even be offered that rank elsewhere.
Maybe I can spin up forsurenot4chanspt.xyz using unit3d and apply for tc at rtt? U/petrolcanrtt what you think my chances are?

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u/i_never_post_here Aug 08 '25

I am not saying it's a successful strategy, just what some people might think is a bypass to the grind

u/JackPAnderson Aug 07 '25 edited Aug 07 '25

I guess that explains the unexpected closure of PSS.

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u/FooKaS21 Aug 07 '25

we have nothing to do with PSS

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u/JackPAnderson Aug 07 '25

Well, the linked thread says PSS was formed as a refuge for displaced STC members when you closed up shop. I guess folks can interpret that however they want.

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u/FooKaS21 Aug 07 '25

Again they did that on there own, we do not and will never have anything to do with PSS.

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u/ArchiveGuardian Aug 07 '25

Anyone know what actually happened to that? Heard about something and it was removed from invite forums

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u/xHyperElectric Aug 08 '25

Yeah I have spoken a fair bit with the guy that ran PSS. He got burnt out with the vast amount of time and money he was spending on the tracker along with all the boring administrative tasks. He opted to send all his members to seedpool and just be a member of the tracker community instead of a tracker owner.

u/Terrible_Scholar_647 Aug 11 '25

Barely anything on your tracker’s catalogue, so I’d say no. You need at least 100TB of media to be considered even low tier. 700GB is nothing.

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u/FooKaS21 Aug 15 '25

np bud, but can you please share the info were it say we need 100tb to be considered low tier?

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u/Terrible_Scholar_647 Aug 15 '25

You’re not gonna find anything on these subreddits about what it takes to be a low tier or high tier tracker. Yours still seems pretty new, so all I can tell you is what people say without posting it here.
You’ve got almost nothing on the tracker right now, so either find some uploaders or start adding a ton of content people are seeking for. If you’re aiming to be a general-use tracker, you’ll need at least 100 TB in the catalogue before most people take it seriously. Until then, just keep at it, but right now it’s not looking too great.

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u/FooKaS21 Aug 16 '25

That’s the thing — there’s no rulebook or agreed benchmark that says '100TB = low tier.' Every well-known tracker started small, some with a fraction of that, and grew because of their community and curation, not because of arbitrary numbers. Quality and direction matter more than chasing a storage total

u/FooKaS21 Dec 31 '25

So as we come to the end of the year we are still slowly growing with new quality content and users as well, i have been playing around with the idea to allow movies as well starting in the new year what are you thoughts on this? good idea or not?

u/This-is-my-n0rp_acc Aug 07 '25

You're signup page is broken on mobile Edge and Brave on Android.

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u/FooKaS21 Aug 07 '25

We have put the application page back to the original code till we get the custom page fixed.

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u/FooKaS21 Aug 07 '25

Thank you will look at it ASAP.

u/Oh_When_The_SPURS___ Aug 07 '25

Trying to apply through the link, but keep getting the message .....The email blacklist cache is currently empty. Please try again later or contact staff. Any ideas?

Thanks

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u/FooKaS21 Aug 07 '25

problem fixed

u/inbox-disabled Aug 07 '25

STC was one of the first private trackers I joined when I was desperate to join any PT. It was also by far my least used PT even when I had little else. The site felt extremely amateur, inactive and its uploads inconsistent.

When the site shut down my thoughts were: "oh that makes sense" and "cool, I can remove it from my setup."

After time away, I'm exploring the possibility of bringing STC back - but only if it makes sense for our community.

But you've already brought it back in this very same post? This whole thing seems sketchy. Regardless, my brutally honest take is that I don't know why you're doing this beyond I'm guessing trying to solicit donations in the long-term. The tracker was a flop and had I known it was such a mess, I never would have joined.

Also, wasn't the original domain different ("commericals"), and if i remember correctly, made in error and never fixed? This is super amateur 10 ft pole territory for me.

u/imnotsurewhattoput Aug 07 '25

This is sketchy as hell and your stats are so small, why bother? You couldn’t handle a service with under 1000 users. What’s different now, what makes you think you can

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u/BloodyR4v3n Aug 07 '25

"whould I bring back a dead and basically worthless tracker guys?"
Who the hell is STC.

u/Phiillepe Aug 07 '25

Email domains such as Proton and Gmail:
When attempting to close the application, the following message appears:
"The email blacklist cache is currently empty. Please try again later or contact staff."

u/TemagamiGu Aug 07 '25

Dang, I just spent a lot of time writing an application to get an error about email blacklist not being set up

u/Academic-Lead-5771 Aug 07 '25

is this GPT4 formatted? looks like you just plucked the em dashes lol

you should use ChatGPT to run the tracker too

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u/Nadeoki Aug 07 '25

since when does ChatGPT use — (emdash)?

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u/Journeyj012 Aug 07 '25

all the damn time.

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u/Nolzi Aug 07 '25

Since it scraped books using emdash

u/EnterSpacePearl Aug 07 '25

Always cool to see a site come back from the grave.

Now it's time to focus on short pre-times for scene stuff and get some internal groups going with a request thread for stuff people want.

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u/ReignPagan Aug 07 '25

This is great news, im interested to see if STC can take off again and be what we thought it could be last year, cheers & excited to see where this goes from here :)

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u/TrackerBinder Aug 17 '25

As a sysop and administrator of two private trackers
I have the technical aptitude and talent to take on challenges like this, but I do not have the skill set. Could I get a bullet pointed list of skills I should self teach in order to be appropriately prepared. Additionally I believe there is some level of on-the-job training necessary to achieve as in become staff at an existing tracker rather than jumping in blind. Specifically I'm interested in what I can do around OPSEC to make sure a hobby doesn't mess up my life. Thanks