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

#21

I always wish torrent sites used some sort of data table widget to allow for easier sorting of the search results. Something like this would work great (there may be better ones still): https://www.datatables.net/examples/styling/bootstrap4.html

It was considered, but this feature required javascript. Since javascript was not a option, it was discarded.If there is some other way without scripting, please let us know. It will be used and implemented.

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

#23

I always wish torrent sites used some sort of data table widget to allow for easier sorting of the search results. Something like this would work great (there may be better ones still): https://www.datatables.net/examples/styling/bootstrap4.html

It was considered, but this feature required javascript. Since javascript was not a option, it was discarded.If there is some other way without scripting, please let us know. It will be used and implemented.

It's tedious but can be accomplished with server side sorting.

You could have:

    

        Name

    

The server side code would interpret the sort and direction parameters and sort results as instructed.

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

#24

Will you offer any type of API? I'd be interested

An RSS feed for searches would be great as well

RSS feed for searches is already present, after you search you will have an RSS icon for that specific search

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

#26

That site served blazingly fast. It's refreshing to see an ad free torrent site. Since you aren't monetizing the site, how are you planning on keeping the site running? Donations?

It's very fast.

Currently they're NOT accepting donations.

https://www.skytorrents.in/howto

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

#28

Wow! its super fast and NO Javascript!!! Where are you hosting it and do you plan to monetize?

No, we DONOT have any plans to monetize. NO javscript was a design feature for security focused users. We also DONOT place any cookies (and donot track). We wanted users to experience a fastest experience possible without worry about adblocks, noscripts etc.

> we DONOT have any plans to monetize.

i'd like to tweak the question, and ask if you intend to make money with this site, or is it a passion project/labour of love?

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

#29

That site served blazingly fast. It's refreshing to see an ad free torrent site. Since you aren't monetizing the site, how are you planning on keeping the site running? Donations?

Given the relatively slim page size (23Kb for me), and given that SQLite can pretty easily host a relatively simple database like this one and serve 100K-1M queries per day[0], I would expect that whoever is hosting this could pretty easily host this on a single dedicated server which only costs ~$50. So for the foreseeable future, I suspect this site will be fine.

[0] - https://sqlite.org/whentouse.html

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

#30
post #7

I see that you are based out of India. How do you plan on dealing with law enforcement issues? (Great site, btw).

Hosting a torrent site is completely LEGAL. Since we are acting just like google "a search engine".

Do you have legal precedent on this? That defense hasn't held in many jurisdictions.
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