Hi may just ask, is the rpdl.net site on hiatus?
I swear everyday it gets updated with new torrent files of new versions of games.
and then suddenly it's not?
The last activity of sharing torrent files were 2 days ago.
It's just odd.
So I was wondering if everyone's om break or the site is under maintenance or something.
We're just suffering a little bit of burnout, I actually put out a ping an hour or two ago asking if anybody was interested in joining the team to help us. I'll copy it here:
Hey guys,
We're on the run-up to Christmas and we're feeling a bit burnt out - we need some extra help managing the workload.
If anyone's interested in joining the team and making torrents with us hop into create-ticket and we can chat! All you need is 2FA on your phone.
I cannot confirm/deny if volf3n will give handjobs.
In other news I plan to have a news post up on rpdl.net within the week outlining our funding & future plans etc.
It's been a tough few months, we lost our payment processor which sucked - we were basically self sufficient so to have that pulled was a kick in the nuts. It happens, we were in breach of TOS but what can you do - that's life sometimes. Since then we've been treading water and thanks to a few very generous people and some cost-cutting, we do have some funds to last us for a few months.
But yeah, what we really need is a few people to help out day to day and invigorate the team. There's a lot to do, and it's a grind sometimes to keep up. There's a surprising amount of work that goes into it, it's not just making torrents but maintaining the archive as a whole, removing old & redundant torrents, manually updating games that don't offer a full download - things like that. We even had to incorporate our own Gitea server just to track issues and jobs.
We really do need a few good people, if anyone reading this thinks they're interested in helping out hop on our Discord (
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) and open a ticket in #create-ticket and we can chat.
To add to that, I was getting "unexpected end of file" errors for a few hours yesterday which usually means there's a DDoS going on.
I'm not aware of a DDoS, we have some pretty good monitoring and I don't see any issues. With that said though, the most likely issue is that one of our proxies was having issues which can happen sometimes. It self-heals (usually) so intervention generally isn't necessary unless something outright breaks - with that said though if you do notice weird stuff like that please do DM me or just post here and I'd be happy to look into it. Our uptime is pretty good and I put a lot of importance on it