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

Post by sk7 » Wed, Jan 18, 2017, 2:11 PM UTC

imglorp wrote: post #223

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

Is old whois data cached? If you launch without whois privacy and turn it on later, can someone go back in history and still find the registrant? As a side note, maybe someone like archive.org should keep time series whois data...

Post by pawadu » Wed, Jan 18, 2017, 2:15 PM UTC

pbhjpbhj wrote: post #221

imgabe wrote: post #203

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Unless it's a honeypot run by the MPAA ... doffs tinfoil hat

If the MPAA put the site up aren't they then implicitly authorising it's use. Surely that would preclude any suggestions of tortuous infringement. If I put a sign on my house saying "please take anything you like" and people take stuff then it's no longer burglary. If someone else puts the sign up, who isn't authorised, then it is still theft. Of course following that analogy through, if MPAA aren't authorised then a…

Post by alimbada » Wed, Jan 18, 2017, 2:29 PM UTC

kasumis_ wrote: post #139

hkjgkjy wrote: post #136

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How is this "If 2 or more users demand , it will be done" policy working for you? Have you used it in other projects prior to this? Curious to hear any stories :).

It's working fine. We are gathering feedback what users want and then do the development instead of we will develop this whether user want it or not. A company once invested more than an year developing a feature, which was rolled back in 1 day after users complained.

Post by jasonjayr » Wed, Jan 18, 2017, 2:39 PM UTC

Post by kasumis_ » Wed, Jan 18, 2017, 2:45 PM UTC

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.