Some may have seen ConCen suddenly drop off the internet for 24 hours. In reality their IP address has been automatically banned for one of various reasons, like failing a login 4 times.

As you might already be aware, my Etch A Sketch was modified to use WiFi. Just recently I managed to add OSR (Optical Sketch Recognition) software, so now I can sketch out new code for the site so much faster! The more observant among you may have noticed a couple of things. I don't want to give anything away, but soon a part of the site will be exactly where I've always wanted it - nothing but freshly baked stats and refried torrents! My mouth is watering already! Woo Hoo!!!

Started 31 March 2003 by Mike Smith on an Athlon 750MHz computer, now 14 years old and still going strong...

OK so living in a frozen piss soaked box under a train bridge just became much easier thanks to a generous member who made a large ($200) donation. YOU ROCK!!!!!!!!

I used the money to buy some frilly frills for my frisky feline friends,

and a WiFi enabled Etch A Sketch.

Greetings fellow ConCenners! Merry Christmas!

As you know, I have made ConCen free for everybody since May 2016. That meant I could no longer afford my rent, so I was evicted. I now live in a hobo piss soaked cardboard box, but hey - at least you guys get a free web site!

Happy New Year!

Since it was time again to beg for more money to keep this place running, I decided to rethink paying €40 per month for a virtual server with 2 processors, 35GB storage and 4GB memory. The people @ EuroVPS really like to run a lot of virtual servers on each physical server, making ConCen feel slow. A recent crackdown on tracker abuse (clients sending hundreds of bogus requests per minute) made it a little better, but not much.

I recently modified the tracker software to identify IP addresses that were pestering the tracker by sending large amounts of bogus requests. I then set up a mechanism to ban those IP addresses. As a result, the server seems a lot happier, at least from my end.

Let me know if you noticed it feeling a little snappier, please!

• New: RSS feed for torrents https://concen.org/torrents/rss.xml
• Automatic NFO/TXT file view now fully compatible with ASCII Art! https://concen.org/content/crude-2009
• Can now add, replace, or remove a NFO/txt file on an existing torrent
• Can replace a torrent file without having to delete and re-upload a new torrent
• Anonymous uploads