will help seed. well done, gesserit!

This is godly. I didn't expect this so quick after we discussed it. I definitely plan on helping you seed this for a good long while - even if I have busier uploads, I'll just leave it paused from time to time. Great work boss, thanks a ton! :-)

Yay, the whole gang is here! :)

How come we don't have a gang name yet? Something to go with "Comics Cove", if at all possible. Suggestions, please!

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It took me about two hours just to persuade TPB to accept this upload, believe it or not. I kept getting "upload error 4" messages, which usually means that the .torrent file is too big. So I kept increasing the piece size until I hit the ceiling, and it still wouldn't accept it. Apparently, hitting various other limits can also lead to that error messages, as can combinations of things which would not be problematic in and of themselves, to make things really fun to puzzle out. This pack originally had 603 files, and on the barest off-chance I removed a handful to get it under 600 - and voila, no more error. Bloody hell.

STFmv - I'm sure you encountered that sort of thing with your even more massive "graphic novels and trades" packs, yes? Any additional insights to offer?

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Vik - well, I kind of avoided mentioning it until I was nearly done with all the preparatory work, because (like most people) I tend to badly underestimate how long things like this ultimately take and am thus prone to make unrealistic predictions, which I always end up annoyed at myself about. With vague last-minute hints, on the other hand, everyone is happy to see results way sooner than expected. :)

And yes, continuous seeding is neither required nor even remotely necessary. As long as future downloaders can tell that there's a good chance that seeders will once more show up at some point, even if there aren't any at a given time, all they need do is leave the download running for a bit. And all they need do to figure that out is, well, read what I'm writing right now, for example.

*waves at ghostly faces of future downloaders across the temporal abyss*

other than the piece sizes being too small, and obviously you fixed that... too many directories. i know that's one cause of Upload Error 4

for the series of Image Comics big ass torrents i did, I had to put them all into a single directory to make it work.

...which was extra ridiculous, since on the other site where I got the entire thing, it was nicely divided with one folder per title...

and i can't be in a gang with you, i'm on probation for robbing that build-a-bear workshop

uTorrent lets me build torrents with 16MB piece sizes, by the way. does yours go higher than 2 ?

Wow, this upload is really max'ing out my connection. The average value my client shows is way closer to the theoretical limit than I've ever seen before. I guess that must have something to do with the size, too? The swarm size is growing rapidly but not (yet) at all exceptional, which is the only contributing factor I'd observed so far.

4^-2^ - Ah, interesting. The folder count is slightly over 200, just as the file count was slightly over 600, so that would have been another worthwhile things to try and nudge down just a bit, except I'd not have known to.

My uTorrent version only goes to 8, so you must have updated more recently. But I always figure one should keep the pieces as small as possible for this type of torrent, so that partial downloads don't get stuck with having to download vast amounts of junk data. This was the smallest it would accept - which actually surprised me, as I'm sure I've seen shipjolly do 10+ gig instalments of late, and still getting away with 512 kB pieces. The one way in which this torrent differs from those is... folder count, so I'm more and more thinking you're on to something there. Wish I'd known that a few hours ago, though I guess I still wouldn't have traded the lasting advantage of a proper hierarchical dir tree for the fleeting one of a slightly more user-friendly .torrent file, so it'd likely not have made much of a difference in the end.

Is "build-a-bear" absurdist humour, or am I missing something more funnily profound/profoundly funny there?

it was the dumbest place i could think of to get arrested for a robbery. ;-)

and yeah keeping the piece sizes small was less important for me when the average file size (of graphic novel scans) was considerably larger than the avg. of these.

I had some ideas now, let me know what you guys think:

- "Captain Merryville" (that's you, STF, being our green-badged very-important gangster-in-chief) "and his Merry Men" (that's the rest of us)

- "Skulls" (that's those of us with a skull) "and Moans" (that's those of us who are bemoaning their lack of a skull), or perhaps "Skulles and Moanes" if we're going for olden-days-piratical or "Skullz and Moanz" if we're going for ghetto, or something.

- My multi-layered masterpiece: "The Cape Crew's Aiders", because "cape" and "crew" relate directly to "pirate" and "bay", if you cross your eyes and squint a bit, and we're "aiders" because we help ourselves to free stuff.

i vote for "The 24/7 0-Day 365 List Hitters"

or, "The Paul Charles Dozsa Fan Club"

Both of those suggestions leave me... nonplussed and slightly speechless, would be the way to put I, heh. :)

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A quick thanks to the (so far) only person who actually followed my request and initial-seeded one of the Hitlisted folders (the MySpace DHP one, I think). Good show, whoever you are! :)

I like gangs, but only if violence is involved.

I don't know if I particularly bemoan the lack of a skull, but I am down with whatever identifiable group name is required to make me feel like part of a crew and thus disproportionately increase my feelings of self-worth. Just let me know how many Crips I need to cap.

All of the following work for me: "Digital Shitlisters", :Comics Choad Authority", "Uploaders Therapy Group", "Pirate Paradise Pimps", "Comically Inept", "U-LOAD Head Explode", "Steranko's Stentorian Stand-Ins", "Make Mine Morons", Crack-y Comics Crazies", or just "Warriors".

Ohhh, yes, let's be "The Warriors". Can't wait to incessantly taunt you with "Come out to pla-y-ay" comments! :P

But then we'd have to have torrent wars, wouldn't we? Can't be called that and not have a war of some sort.

Any ideas what those might consist in? I'm coming up completely blank at the present...

Wait, "torrent war", "tug o' war", maybe? Nope, still makes no sense to me. Curses!

LOL @ "Digital Shitlisters"

I'm sorry I didn't initial-seed one of your Hitlist folders (the MySpace DHP one, I think). I would have, but I delete them after a week or two. Hard drive full-ish, usually.

I am seeding 6 gigs of this, though. ;-)

Oh, anyone who's going to seed the whole thing for a while later on is totally exempt from that, to my mind, so no worries there.

I'm still at that stage of my comics-downloading career at which they hardly register disk-space-wise, relative to audio and video stuff. And I'm kind of hoping that as long as I stick to my "no Big Two" policy, it'll stay that way for a good long while, too! :)

(Then again, if the size of the average release keeps increasing at the pace we've seen for the last few years, it may not be quite as straightforward as all that.)

Okayyy, 60 hours in, the new portions are now all fully seeded, and the old ones already more than halfway. Not quite what I hoped, but not too shabby. I'm now going to add my own bandwidth for the latter, and the whole thing should be up in another 12-24 hours, I expect. Hang in there, everyone! :)

All up in 'ere as of a few hours ago!!

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Future downloaders, I'll try and check this thread periodically, so if ever you want to download some part of this which isn't seeded at that moment, it may help to leave a note to that effect here, and then just to be patient. :)

whoo-hoo! great!