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.
7 more votes to get it done.
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#282Earlier quoted context omitted.
7 more votes to get it done.
It's really not an auction site. Set up a way to handle feature requests.
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#283Earlier quoted context omitted.
Are you really complaining that a site that is dedicated to copyright infringement might be misusing a trademark? I have a feeling that is the least of their legal concerns.
Trademark law is pretty fierce, and sites like these should generally want to minimise the legal attack surface.
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#284Earlier quoted context omitted.
I wrote a BitTorrent client that specifically only downloads the parts you need to perform some operation: https://github.com/anacrolix/torrent
But can it look inside archives? If not, then mainstream clients can already do what you mention.
So theoretically, you could open the archive in a GUI, extract the file you want, and the only part it would download would be the archive header/file listing and the part of the archive corresponding to the file you wanted.
Of course, this wouldn't work for tarballs or solid RARs, but for regular archives it could conceivably work.
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#285#1 on HackerNews -> [Dynamic Search-Result] Page served in 39µs What kind of dark magic is this? What's your stack?
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#286Instructions here: https://github.com/qbittorrent/qBittorrent/wiki/How-to-write...
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#288I 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".
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#289This is blazing fast, congrats! However, I am concerned by the use of IN domain. Indian govtt frequently asks ISPs to block sites to avoid piracy. How do you plan to avoid getting blocked?
we only have https version
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#290Suggestions: 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?