A. Tell us something about yourself?
My name is Jonathon and I'm in my 30s. My main hobby is music. I love collecting 'essentials' from any genre to learn about it, which often leads me to more specific micro-genres. My properly labeled music collection is about 480gb of mostly V0 mp3s, and probably at least that much that I haven't properly labeled with proper album artwork, double checked track listing and release date, properly capitalized titles, etc. I go to a lot of concerts but have had a significant drop-off in the past year and a half or so since What shut down.
I used to check Oh My Rockness regularly and if there were upcoming shows that I could go to. Even if I hadn't heard of the band but recognized their name, I would download their most recent and most essential albums and decide whether to go to the show. If I decided I was going to the show, then I'd download the opening bands too to see if I should try to get there early enough to catch them. I've probably discovered more bands this way than any other (including the year-end lists from Cool Music Central, Pitchfork, NME, Stereogum, CoS, etc.) and wound up going to shows of those bands too the next time they toured. I was the person who promoted (they might say harassed) all my favorite bands to friends. So What.cd shutting down actually changed my life. I am not going to random concerts when I don't know what the band sounded like, so now it seems like I go to fewer and fewer concerts and discover fewer and fewer new bands. I can't even go to festivals anymore because What was how I learned about the majority of non-headliners, which wound up being the best part of the festival because of the smaller crowd sizes.
B. How did you find InviteHawk?
I've been desperate for a What replacement since they shut down but I've been busy immigrating to Canada over the past year, so it wasn't the priority that it is now that I'm settled in. I periodically visit Reddit's trackers subreddit only to consistently be disappointed that it seems impossible to get into a tracker that is even close What. I found this site while searching how to get invites.
C. What Torrent Sites are you looking for? (Mention none if just browsing)
Based on what I've seen Redacted (1.1 million torrents) and Apollo (715k) have far and away the most torrents. I think third place was under 200k. I would love to get into one of those two.
D. Do you use the same email on InviteHawk as well as on trackers? (If yes, change it from your profile or contact a staff member)
I do not currently have any other trackers and I did not use this email address with What.cd, but I did use this username on What.
E. Do you have any suggestions for InviteHawk?
I haven't been here long enough to speak on this.