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Show HN: Privacy-focused, ad-free, non-tracking torrent search engine

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Re: Show HN: Privacy-focused, ad-free, non-tracking torrent search engine

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Post by VA3FXP »

kasumis_ wrote: post #118
jimparkins wrote: post #117

Hi, Love the site especially the speed. But disappointed that the search indexes the name of the container of the torrent only and not the name of the files within the torrent. To date the only site I know that does this is "filelisting dot com" but their website is very slow. Do you have any plans to extend your product to add this feature. Maybe as a premium option? Super useful to find single documents contained w…

If 3 more users vote this feature, It will be provided for free to everyone and it will provided at the same speeds as the current website.

Consider this an upvote. Need a kidney? I'd be willing to offer one for this feature.

Re: Show HN: Privacy-focused, ad-free, non-tracking torrent search engine

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Post by niij »

buro9 wrote: post #159

Suggestions: 1. Enable whois privacy via Gandi 2. Hide your server IPs behind Cloudflare 3. Ensure the site is written such that it is trivial for yourself and others to use alternate domain names

I thought whois guard wasn't allowed by .in? I'm using Namecheap and it isn't possible for my .in but I'd like to add it if some other registrars allow this. Anyone have to registrar to recommend besides gandhi?

Re: Show HN: Privacy-focused, ad-free, non-tracking torrent search engine

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Post by HelloNurse »

kasumis_ wrote: post #193
HelloNurse wrote: post #187

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Archived bundles of files having significant names are important! Torrents of opaque disk images and archives (e.g. pirated software) or video files (e.g. pirated movies and TV series episodes) might be popular, but the strong suit of BitTorrent are carefully crafted and often very large collections of books, music, emulator ROM files etc.

we may consider giving priority to bigger torrents.

Search result priority is largely irrelevant for rare or specific files, since there are going to be few results (at least, few clearly different torrents) and each result is going to be inspected by looking at the file list.

Indexing file names is the search quality improvement you need most. For example, I tried searching for "Pretty Polly", by the Poison Girls; moderately popular niche music. There are 0 results for "pretty polly" and 2 results for "poison girls", one of which is a complete discography collection containing that song. Imagine the results for more popular and prolific authors.

Re: Show HN: Privacy-focused, ad-free, non-tracking torrent search engine

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Post by kasumis_ »

HelloNurse wrote: post #264
kasumis_ wrote: post #193

Earlier quoted context omitted.

we may consider giving priority to bigger torrents.

Search result priority is largely irrelevant for rare or specific files, since there are going to be few results (at least, few clearly different torrents) and each result is going to be inspected by looking at the file list. Indexing file names is the search quality improvement you need most. For example, I tried searching for "Pretty Polly", by the Poison Girls; moderately popular niche music. There are 0 results f…

Ability to search inside torrents is being considered and will be added soon.

Re: Show HN: Privacy-focused, ad-free, non-tracking torrent search engine

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Post by anacrolix »

__david__ wrote: post #236
vlunkr wrote: post #230

Earlier quoted context omitted.

With transmission you can actually select or deselect individual files.

But not when they're trapped in a .rar or a .iso, at least not in my version of Transmission.

I wrote a BitTorrent client that specifically only downloads the parts you need to perform some operation: https://github.com/anacrolix/torrent

Re: Show HN: Privacy-focused, ad-free, non-tracking torrent search engine

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Post by anacrolix »

asperous wrote: post #112
lsmod wrote: post #97

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It's not the same.you'll be missing some of the trackers.

Magnet URLs can and usually do include all of the trackers. http://www.bittorrent.org/beps/bep_0009.html#magnet-uri-form... That being said DHT and PEX (BEP 5 and BEP 11) is good enough that you don't need them.

That's not entirely true. DHT is generally the most effective, but PEX and trackers help a lot when there aren't many seeds, or there's a lot of noise on the DHT.

Re: Show HN: Privacy-focused, ad-free, non-tracking torrent search engine

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Post by ivanhoe »

jasonjayr wrote: post #257

A few other folks have mentioned this, but a (monthly?) dump of the database, offered as a torrent link on the site would be fantastic. Not only would it enable offline searching, but when the inevitable take down shows up, folks can still continue to search the database.

this is actually a great idea.. +1
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