Waffles

About
Waffles is a large private tracker that specializes in music. Waffles was created in the wake of Oink being shut down, at about the same time What was created as well.

Waffles has always taken an exclusive approach, making it harder for new members to join whereas What attempted to be open and gain lots of new users early on.

Waffles is known for hosting many charity drives, and promoting donations to good causes such as holiday toy drives, food drives, and Haiti relief. The drives typically raise thousands of dollars or thousands worth of goods.

IRC
Server: irc.p2p-network.net

Port: 6666-6669, and 6697/7000 for SSL

Channel(s): #waffles.fm, #waffles.fm-help, #waffles.fm-flac

2007
October 31 - Tracker is created, shortly after the closure of Oink

2008
August 24 - Adds a points system for contributing to the website (does not include seeding)

December 7 - Runs first annual holiday toy drive, members donated 712 toys to charity

December 22 - Phishing scam sent to members by a Romanian user attempting to get Yahoo accounts

2009
July 8 - Site has 35000 users and tracking 179000 active torrents

January 21 - Hosted a food drive, donating 2117 food items

2010
January 14 - No longer allows Wavpack, ALAC, and .ogg, and individual tracks unless officially released as such. Comics may only be uploaded in .cbr and .cbz formats

January 19 - Haiti relief drive, users raised $84,012 for relief efforts

2012
December 13 - After having many troubles receiving donations, the site is faced with a €4,400 debt to pay in two weeks. Within 24 hours enough had been raised to pay off the debt and more.

2013
September 22 - Major update to codebase, with new homepage/login, and password recovery among other fixes

2014
June 1 - Donation drive to pay for bills as well as pay for better infrastructure, asks €6,000 and receives over €8,500