Disaster crash course

Just a small note: the main hard drive has crashed and we've moved to new hardware (yeah, I'm sick of such bad luck too). The only quirk: all data since Thursday 8th March '12 after 16h30 UTC has been lost. Less than 6h worth of changes, registrations and comments (mostly), but still, it's some loss, as we had to restore from the last backup available.

Sorry to everyone for the inconvenience. Everything is back up now…

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Freak007
09/03/2012
Yeah I lost some settings I changed and a comment I made, but it's no big deal. I was about to post a follow up to that earlier comment when it crashed, but luckily I made a copy of it (which I tend to do for just such occasions, usually when I lose them) so it's all good. :) I had stated that I was having issues with my personal feed, and showRSS replied, this is my reply back.

@showRSS: Hey thanks for the response. I was just about to repost that I think I got it figured out and working now. I selected three shows for my personal feed, and, to answer your question, yes they did not show up in my uTorrent queue. However, when I added all the show's individual feeds they did.

I think the problem was that, in my personal feed, at first I set it to download in only 720p HD only, and it didn't work. However, later I decided that I didn't want to use up the extra space needed for HD episodes so I set it to standard def only. After, I did this and changed the feed in uTorrent it started working. The thing I realized is that, of my three shows, I don't think two of them have torrents of episodes in HD, just standard, so it didn't have anything to download when getting HD only. As for the other show, although it has HD and standard versions, it is between seasons and doesn't have any recent episodes to get.

Thus, now episodes of the two SD only shows appear in my uTorrent queue; while episodes of the other show with none that are recent do not (but I assume it will if and when they make any more episodes). I see now why it didn't work, but I did not realize this at first. I just figured since each show had the option to get HD only, that it was available. Also, like I said I'm new to this site, and pretty much RSS feeds in general, although I'm kind of old hat when it comes to torrents. I'm just glad I got this figured out now because there is a new episode of one of my shows tomorrow, and I want to see how this works. Hope this might help anybody in the same boat.

Also, I see what you mean, when I added the individual show feeds I got a lot more episodes of each one. I like the way it is now with less episodes, but now I'm wondering about something. How does the personal feed pick how many of each show to download? Before, the individual feeds showed ten episodes of each of the SD only shows, and twenty of the other (ten episodes in SD, and the same ten episodes in HD). Now it shows four episodes of one SD show, three of the other, and none of show that has no recent episodes. I guess it's based on how recent each episode is? Is there somewhere we can set this?

Sorry for the long post, but I'm just trying to be clear. Thanks again. :)
Jon
12/03/2012
No big deal.

Any progress on tracking shows that are not on eztv?
freibooter
13/03/2012
I don't mind about a couple of settings or comments, but it looks like once again:

Transmission Push has stopped working again since the recovery.

It would be really nice if someone could look into that again.

"It works! Now, any show marked as "pushable" (you have to set this on a per-show basis, clicking the gear near the show name in your list) will be pushed directly to your Transmission client (remember that if it's offline, it won't be pushed again)."

Sadly, it doesn't work despite this - NOTHING has pushed successfully since Thursday for me. :-(
freibooter
14/03/2012
... still broken. Everything is set up properly, nothing gets pushed. :-(

I hope this time it won't be a couple of months until Transmission Push gets fixed.
zigi
16/03/2012
Same for me. Before crash Transmission Push worked flawlessly.
Hans
16/03/2012
Yeah, push doesn't work for me too, i was very very happy with your service and i loved it! hope it works soon again!
freibooter
16/03/2012
Push is working again (took me a bit by surprise), yeaah!

Thanks ShowRSS, you still are the greatest!
zigi
16/03/2012
I confirm, TransmissionPush works again.
labtopia
17/03/2012
thnks for the great work and uptime!
jxs
19/03/2012
New series: "comic book men" plz!
dave
23/03/2012
@jxs - Just FYI, comic book men has finished now, it was only 6 episodes, have to see if it gets another series
jxs
26/03/2012
damn! Okay, how about "Bent" then?
akya
03/04/2012
What's with the rm files?
Dale
03/04/2012
What's with the .3gp files?
Enterprised
03/04/2012
3GP

EZTV is doing this, got nothing to do with ShowRSS
No worries
09/04/2012
All's well that ends well :-)

Please add:

Bent
The Client List
Skatman
12/04/2012
Just a thought. Why not set up a RAID 5 for this server so that you'll have less hard drive issues? I have a website myself and it's on a RAID setup so that I won't really have to worry about losing data unless 2 or more drives crash at exactly the same time. And the odds of that happening are huge. Again, just a thought.
BENT
15/04/2012
Please add this show "Bent".

Thank you very much :-)
Jxs
15/04/2012
"Derek", made by Ricky Gervais, plz!
RetroBorg
18/04/2012
Any chance of adding the following shows?

American Pickers
Finding Bigfoot
Hell on Wheels
Jersey Shore
Geordie Shore
The Inbetweeners
Dream Machines
The Voice Australia
Touch (2012)

Thanks, great site.
Chris
19/04/2012
You could keep blaming bad luck, or you could accept that there's some incompetence on your part. I've never seen such an unreliable service.
ashewyntr
19/04/2012
Chris! You're back! You complain bitterly and insult indescriminately, yet keep coming back for this free service. Is it possible you're not clear on the services offered for *free*? This is a place to get links on recently posted TV shows. Not a "rage at strangers to make yourself feel tough" site.
SnowAngel
20/04/2012
i have gotten a copyright violation notice through telus about the ncis ep 20 torrent that is up just a note to anyone downloading or seeding you might want to shut down ncis torrents for a bit
SnowAngel
20/04/2012
i am just as upset as anyone hopefully we can figure out a way to fix it this a awesome site and i love what you guys do!
best of luck to everyone :)
Todd
27/04/2012
new Show Request: Veep
I'm not chris
03/05/2012
ashewyntr, you think we shouldn't complain when gmail is down... oh, that's right, according to your logic: it's free, so therefore you have no choice in the matter.

No, every service needs a little feedback negative or not. But I think in the case of showrss, the admins are not really paying attention to the blog comments, let alone the numerous feature requests... you think people didn't get pissed off when twitter went down in the early days, think again.

rather than interject your useless posts speculating about someone's possible personal agenda or rather your projection of that imagined agenda, try reiterating some of the changes that the site needs: like a great feedback mechanism. there are plenty of free "bug" tracking services that the admins could implement to help us communicate with them.

fuck, a show request function has been needed for months. my suggestion: tie the tvdb database functions into the showrss individuals' show database, by correlating their list to a central tvdb API key for the entire site (thereby limiting the API calls tvdb would see.

was that so hard?
ashewyntr
03/05/2012
I'm not chris, I didn't say don't complain. Although when it's free, you really can't claim breach of contract - there isn't one.
I'm saying needless vitriol doesn't do anything to help. After all, any douchebag can come in and scream "You suck!" He's not bringing anything to the table but noise. That's why I heckle him. I want him to either put up or go away. It's difficult to concentrate while someone is pissing in your ear.
Your post, on the other hand, points out a problem and offers a suggestion for a solution.
I haven't been pointing out needful things because other than additions to the list, I haven't seen anything I want to change. I don't use the push feature that is apparently driving Chris into a blind rage.
Feel free to offer contributions - I'm all for it.
rpj
04/05/2012
Would be great to add...
Don't Trust The B. in Apt. 23
Girls
Chris
17/05/2012
Oh awesome, push isn't working again and links to torrents are all dead. Well done guys, another big fuck up.
Shows not updating
18/05/2012
Is there any reason why certain shows are updated and not others?

For example, there have been 2 other episodes of "The Client List" but the listings here show the last one being at Episode 4. Same thing for "Scandal".

Thanks for any insight.
John
21/05/2012
Thanks for the fix! Love your service :).
zigi
23/05/2012
What about Transmission Push?
Jp00000
31/05/2012
Would be great if you can add:

Duets
Continuum
Men at work

Thanks

Great site!!!
Ola
05/06/2012
Donate!

I did! :)

Keep up the work!
More shows not updating
15/06/2012
New season of Suits started last night but the system didn't pick it up. This isn't the first time this has happened. Any idea why some shows simply don't get seen by ShowRSS?
definitelynotchris
30/06/2012
Does anyone have any info on zoink.it and if and when it'll be back up?
dash
15/07/2012
heyheyhey!

The 5th season of DAMAGES has started. Any idea why the feed still hasn't got the new episode?
Love your site, thx a lot!
dash
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