Mmmmmmmmmmmm. Cake.

Finally, after our little bit of an attempt at some hype (lol) we’ve decided to roll out our new server, and what better time then to push out SceneSource v2. This is the culmination of a lot of hardwork from NuZZ and Shadowized, as well as some coding by myself and some images courtesy of shiny. We have heard your requests, and while we aren’t going to bring you uploads in posts any time soon, we have added some of the more requested features. Below you will find some more details regarding the new features of v2, as well as the awesome themes NuZZ and Shadow have designed.

Firstly I guess I should say a little about the server. We’ve finally gone all out and gone for a quad core, 8gb RAM. This (we hope) will see us through the foreseeable future, until the time when we need to upgrade again, in which case we would probably be looking at 2 servers by then (expensive slightly…). Anyway, this new server should be a lot faster then the old, especially during peak times when TV is pre’ing and the site would die completely.

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Shadowness

Shadowness is our attempt at bringing the flavour of SceneSource’s original theme that has been with us for over 2 years, to the design and feel of this theme. Many elements stay the same, including the sidebar down the right, a navigation bar across the top, and search in the top right. What we have added is some extra width, allowing us to use larger images and more space while writing. Formatting of the posts has altered slightly as well, with the number of comments appearing above the content of the post, rather then below as per version 1. This theme is the new default SceneSource theme, and should been nicknamed “sloth”.

Greysauce

You will find that Greysauce is slightly brighter than the old theme. At the bottom of the page you will notice an experimental “Load more” button. This should (With the help of a plugin called Infiscroll) load the next page underneath the last. It may not be for everyone.

In this theme the tables and blockquotes have been styled with indentation to make such content inside them contrast better.

Dark Greysauce

Dark Greysauce is simply a few shades darker than Greysauce with greater contrast.

Note: The Greysauce theme(s) will not render properly in Internet Explorer. This is because I was too lazy to code for its failing and decided to stick with the modern browsers. It will, however, work with IE9 when that is released, in the future. The theme Shadowness works in all browsers.

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Filter Categories

Of course we have heard your cries for a No-TV filter that would exclude these from your front page. Your prayers have been answered, because not only do we give you a No-TV filter, there’s also a No-MP3 filter that will hide these posts when you have zero interest in them! Simply click the designated button and poof! they’re gone.

Theme Switcher

You might think this new theme is super awesome, but there’s more! You can easily change themes by selecting the one you like in the Theme Switcher box to the right. This way you always have SceneSource exactly the way you like it!

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We were going to also announce what we thought was going to end your problem of fake links, but we’ve had to push that back as it was lagging the comments, and just wasn’t worth rushing out. Instead, I will take this time to also announce that the format of TV shows is going to change once again to a more stylized and informative format. This should be happening within the next day or two.

Obviously, like any new thing we bring to you guys, its not perfect straight off the bat. Do bare with us while we get through our teething stages, as we will endeavor to resolve and bugs and or problems ASAP. We also encourage commenting on this post if you find any bugs, errors or glitches around the place. We don’t know until people let us know about them. Hope you enjoy these new features as much as we are looking forward to providing them for you.

From all of  us here at SceneSource, we hope you enjoy your flight, and please remember that the plane may drop out of the sky at any time, so please keep your seat belts fastened and your barf bags near.

P.S. Join the irc channels on Link-net.org!
#scnsrc for chat, while #fpre and #scnsrcpre are prechans!

Stay tuned…

We are really sorry about the recent downtime for the site. It was related to some data center issues that’s why you may as well experience some slow response from the site . Hope everything goes well from now on. Thanks for your patience, and enjoy your favorite site.

This is just a little welcome post to all our refugees from over at ZeroSec. In case you haven’t heard, the guys over there have fallen on their own sword. They sold their site (for questionable reasons at best) to mysterious new owners, who have now plastered the site with ads and other nasties. Now most editors have left, they are unable to add new editors or access old tools for posting, rendering the site pretty much useless.

Over here at SceneSource we’ll never have that problem, as we don’t require ads to maintain our site, nor do we plan on selling out to mysterious owners… ever. We were the original site formed by two former rlslog editors who had enough of Martin and his ads, as well as his lack of care for rlslog. We founded SceneSource as a homage to what rlslog should of been. So from all of us at SceneSource, we’d like to say welcome, we hope you enjoy your stay and that you will find a new home with us.

I’d also like to point out to anyone that doesn’t already know about dup3.me and trac3.me, two projects run by the staff here at SceneSource. There is also a few new things happening around the place soon, so keep an eye out.

Edit: As you can imagine, the influx of visitors from ZS has slightly overloaded our server, causing slow site loads. We are looking into upgrading, but as you can imagine these things take time to plan and implement.

PS: The new posts are below this one, this is a sticky!

Sorry to the people who’ve had commenting troubles in the last 4 hours or so, a plugin update broke something server side and was marking most of your comments as spam. This has been fixed, so feel free to start commenting again.

I would also like to take this opportunity  to remind all the frequent commentors that accounts are avaliable upon request, as well as meeting certain critera. For more information email info@scnsrc.net with your nick that you use to comment with, your email address and any other information you think we would find useful.

The trusted commentors has been down for a few days, by that I mean not displaying the nice shiny diamond next to the appropriate people. Well anyway it is fixed now.

PS: WE DO NOT ALLOW URL OBFUSCATORS, SHORTENERS OR ANY FORM OF LINK HIDING – DIRECT LINK OR DON’T LINK AT ALL.

Well as some of you have noticed, comments are starting to become very hit and miss, sometimes grabbing what you want first try, or ending up with COPS instead of Private Practice. We have decided to rectify this by offering repeat, confirmed good commentors an account. A few features of this are:

• Confirmed good links, with a symbol next to your name, stating so
• No need to fill out the annoying form and captcha over and over again
• Faster browse times

So, if you want an account, drop us an email (email address is on the contact page) and let us know your nick, email address and your nick on the site if you use something different. We will then confirm you are a good commentor, and set you up an account. If you are a first time commentor, you will have to earn your stripes, by continually offering genuine links, once this has been shown, we will offer an account.

We hope this helps everyone out, and makes everyone’s life that little bit easier.

If you see this, you know it’s good:

- Lee

Hey ScnSrc cats,  we are looking to bring on board several new editors here at ScnSrc so if you have the time to make 1 or 2 posts a day for us and are dedicated we’d like to hear from you.  We are looking for people in particular who have an interest in posting about HD movie releases, Applications and possibly Console game releases.  You will need a good grasp of the English language (if you need to use babelfish to translate into English sorry, you aren’t what we are looking for), access to Scene releases through private trackers or newsgroups or whatever and be able to spend at least a little time most days to help out on the site with posts.

Your rewards will be the gratitude of the thousands of people who read ScnSrc every day, getting to hang out with the cool dudez on #scnsrc irc, and eternal internet fame bordering on legendary status.

To apply email us at info@scnsrc.net! You can apply however you feel, but it should include stuff like nick, reasons for wanting to join, areas you can cover, access to releases and other similar stuff. Give us as much info as possible. One sentence apps will be ignored! Oh and use an appropriate subject otherwise the spam filters go nuts.

Thanksies!!

We at SceneSource have been working hard behind the scenes to bring you a new service, and what we believe to be the first PHP adaption of an IRC trace. Never heard of #trace before? Thats ok, below we’ll explain the basics to you.

The original idea came from the IRC #trace channels on various networks. These channels track uploads to the various private torrent sites around the internet, and then compare them with the other private trackers, and then tells you how they rank compared to other trackers, like a race. This would require the user to idle on the IRC channel for hours just watching text scroll by, or occasionally checking to see if something they like has been traced… not anymore!

SceneSource, in partnership with APN, have developed what we believe to be the first public “TraceDB”, where we track and store the information a normal trace channel would display and discard. We allow you to search and sort, as well as view various statistics and view the sites traced.

So what are you waiting for? Head over to http://www.trac3.me and check it out today!

Feel free to drop us a line, or leave a comment if you have anything to say about this, or anything else on your mind.

Here we are again, another new server this time located in Germany and hopefully the last server move for a while. Thanks to all the folks who helped out through donations, or helpful comments/emails. If you find anything amiss feel free to leave a comment, please don’t email us as its not back up yet.

Much love,
Lee, SHiNY and the scnsrc.net staff

P.S. Missing you already BREIN. cry cry

Edit: Email is now back up, if you are interested in becoming a staff member feel free to drop us a line.