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It's kind of passion project.
How will you pay the bills?
Not GP, but my guess is - like many self-respecting Internet citizens, with a $dayjob :).
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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.
Server side sorting is already being done :)
On the issue of sorting, it should be labelled ASC for Ascending, not AESC. That's the only fault I can find...
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We donot have plans on open sourcing soon, but we love open-source. Making it open-source will be considered in future for sure.
You should consider open sourcing the static pages/text at least, so people can improve paragraphing, punctuation, and grammar/spell correct: "donot" should be "do not" (separate words) "atleast" should be "at least" (separate words) I realize English is probably not your first language, so no big deal, but it would be nice to fix.
Since authors seem to like to make feature requests vote-based here, I second this motion!
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Growing up I heard horror stories of people pirating versions of Windows, Office, etc that had backdoors installed. If you download pirated software there isn't a real way to know for 100% certainty that it isn't laced with something . So I avoid it like the plague. Even if the majority don't have anything it only takes the one and then, depending on its level of sophistication, you're screwed.
Pirating Windows is pretty stupid these days. You can download the official MS ISO from their website, and buy a real key from some subreddits for like $20. The keys they sell are those bulk keys large companies get, their IT dep guy wants to make some extra coin on the side. But they work.
Which subs, how do you look for that?
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#95Thanks , for such search engine,that really includes no javascript and no cookies in any form.
Secondly Its amazingly fast, I believe its more than just C language. I tried different combinations of searches on your search engine to check whether results are being served from cache or so. And it looks all searches(don't know your cache/uncache db design) are several times faster comparable to many. + +1 for speed. Also i feel i found a minor bug.
Even though it looks passion project but don't know how long will you survive fighting DMCA ,others, costs without monetizing plans or accepting donations. Won't mind donation if you accept.
Till you survive, i am glad for your engine.
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#96Suggestion: get rid of the torrent files and just serve magnet urls in plain text without a clickable button. This way you get rid of the knowledge of who-downloaded-what, and also save some bandwidth.
The DHT search from the magnet lookup will announce to the world what you are downloading, no?
Yes, but the site owner does not know if the Person who views the page actually clicks the magnet link or not, so noone will be able to tell "due to your site, X people illegally downloaded file Y"
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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 So my next question is - any plans on open sourcing? :)
I second open-sourcing. Another idea would be to offer dumps of your index for people to download.
(Pragmatic reason: I worry that you may go offline someday due to misguided legal action, lack of time, etc., and I'd like to have your database offline so I can continue using it even if you're gone.)
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#99Question:
How to use metadata info in the search?
e.g. "2016" or "1080p"
Or only the titles are indexed?
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#100Perhaps show the NFO, or parse link to IMDB from NFO and link to that? You can also scrape NFOs to make genres and type of media (games, applications, audio, video, and subgenres of these).