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Of course, you can just provide a code for users to run on their own computers, but don't expect that anyone will really use it (maybe just a few people here and there, I really me…

If despite all this you still decide to go forward - don't forget to import all the available torrent data on the internet (there are tens of dumps here and there), that way you wi…

Don't underestimate possible legal problems. Tech people tend to simply throw them aside ("I will use a VPN/Cloudflare/Onion, no one will find me"), but here are my 5 cents: 1. Mos…

I have been operating a BitTorrent search engine for a few years (it is closed now), here is some advice if you want to launch it as a public website: 1. There is no absence of peo…

Thanks again for all feedback. I added all recent feature suggestions on github ( https://github.com/retonato/torrenthistory-public/issues ). You can vote for them there (just give…

In my opinion even showing infohash would be illegal. Anything, which provides enough information for downloading by a generic torrent client.

Thank you, I will

In principle it is possible, but there would be some limitations: 1. Postgresql supports indexing to make regex searches faster from v9.3 (the current version is 13): https://www.p…

What is BRE? Search by regular expressions?

At the very beginning (of January) search was done even through filenames, but then: 1. It turned out, that such search requires quite a lot of disk space for index. 2. It is not v…

Sorry, I'm new to HN (as author). What do you mean by "pin"?

I thought about some kind of distributed storage, but the technology is not there yet (=I cannot implement that easily, users cannot use it easily). The site uses a regular Postgre…

It would be interesting to see if that standard replaces Bittorent v1. For now it is not nearly as popular (everyone just uses v1, I don't know about any site, which has any signif…

I though about that, it is technically possible. More than that, it is relatively cheap (incoming traffic on most VPS is free). Still, I decided that searching by file size is much…

That's a very good question. I think that dialog in filesharing/linking court cases has moved from "link vs torrent vs file" issue to "does this site/person make possible bypassing…

Also, just to have a torrent indexer, which will be there forever. Other large indexers had almost 40-50 mln torrents, when they were closed, all that information disappeared almos…

1. Checking if some torrent exists in principle (by searching for words in a name) 2. Searching for the same files in other torrents (when you click on the file size on some torren…

That's right, you can see torrent names and file names, your can search through them, but you cannot download anything. There are neither torrent files or infohashes there.

There have been quite a lot of torrent indexers already, but most of them are sooner or later closed. So, I decided to create one more, simple enough (so it can work on its own on …