Change some Default settings completed
Hey, I love the program and love where the developers are taking it but see some issues
1) This one really is a MUST
-- Change the default minimum seeds for pre-defined shows down to at MOST 10 seeds! preferably more like 3!
---- Look at it this way, it might be slow but it ads you to the download queue faster and hense you will download the EP sooner AND, be able to seed for others faster!
2) The default "Search for new episodes" time... searching every 10mins is insane for several reasons
A) Its going make TED totally take over the users computer processor/memory every 10 mins to check for new EPs
B) its going to suck up users bandwidth
C) It really spams the Torrent sites you are generating feeds from - and I'm sure they are going to upset soon when more people start using TED
---I suggest changing 'minutes' to 'hours' and having the default every 12 hours. (You think about it, new shows come out daily... who really needs to check in mins?)
the seeder limit is there to prevent fake episodes from being downloaded. if we put it too low there is a huge chance ted will find a fake episode.
10 minutes per check might be too often. but once in 12 hours is way too large interval. you do want to check regularly if torrents have come available. We're implementing a smart scheduler that won't start searching until the episode actually aired.
Etrit
On second thought after playing with the default settings.. my suggestion 1 really was a bad idea. 90% of the eps I downloaded were fakes...
3 months ago
roel
@bern1005: are those episodes not found because of the filter settings? I love to hear which show that is and if you have a better setting that we can use as default
4 months ago
bern1005
While I do understand and agree with the need to avoid fakes, I have found that more that 50% of episodes that I want are not available via TED (so I am forced to get them myself separately). I do belive that giving clear warnings about reducing min. seeds , but allowing users to make an informed choice would be the better option.
4 months ago
spiralis
I have raised the min seed to avoid fake ep's. And even now, sometimes, fake ep's end up getting lots of seeders. There are less problems with fake episodes with a hight threshold, nevertheless. I second the idea about a smart scheduler that doesn't start looking for an ep until it has actually been aired. I believe there should be reputable sources available for when the shows have been aired.
6 months ago
ferengiboy
I agree with some things here - mainly i think the user should be able to schedule when TED checks for new episodes. Also I think that once each 24 hours is more than sufficient (after all most episodes are weekly ones)
7 months ago