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#22Did you try background-position: top center; on the body element?
Works better for unusual size windows (IMO).
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#23Earlier quoted context omitted.
movies.io founder here, I definitely said that in that podcast, but changed my mind since. Going legit is too much trouble. The world of licensing is way too complex and antiquated - and we would've been forced to adopt DRM, which is a step back, in my opinion: http://amos.me/blog/2012/vision/ So, in short, movies.io's not going away, and yes we're keeping torrents.
For those interested in a legit variation on this theme, check out http://www.moviepresto.com Pretty much every movie out on video is available via one of the online platforms (currently iTunes, Amazon Instant, Netflix, and Redbox), but availability outside the US is still frustrating.
"Frustrating" is an understatement. Also, I still think having a separate website for 'legit outlets' is a waste of time and effort.
I'd rather have you help us integrate it with movies.io - but you know that already :)
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#24Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm not going to lie, that's what inspired me, but on a podcast I recently listened to: http://technophiliapodcast.com/2012/episode-25-interview-wit... They said they were planning on going legit and go with only indie movies, but that would be a bummer, and with the recent demonoid takedown, I thought it would be an interesting project to play around with.
I like your spirit. Would you consider that there could be something similar to solve the disappearance of library.nu?
As always, when one copyright-infringing service is shut down, it's replaced by something more distributed and robust: it's called Library Genesis. As I understand it, they distribute the catalogue in incremental chunks via BitTorrent, which means there are multiple mirrors and no single point of failure.
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#25If anyone is interested, I've just written a small Grease Monkey plugin to convert the magnet urls to real torrent urls on moviemagnet.net and movies.io, thanks to torcache.net: http://pastebin.ca/2205840 [EDIT] Updated pastebin URL to point to a new version which includes torrentbutler.eu and removes the jQuery dependency.
Well, adding 'real torrent urls' to movies.io is trivial, if we don't do it there's a good reason. Even TPB moved away from torrent links and to magnet links. It's one added layer of indirection that makes the whole system harder to break.
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#26Earlier quoted context omitted.
That is what I thought when I saw the site. Looks like a cheap clone of movies.io.
It doesn't look too cheap to me. Plus he or she made an easier to use watchlist RSS feature than movies. That's just my 2¢.
Just interested: how is the moviemagnet RSS feature easier to user than movies.io's ?
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#27can you talk about how you did the backend, and/or reveal any of the technical details?
Absolutely. Ruby on Rails 3.2.8, Postgres, theMoviedb.org for the movie information and pretty backgrounds, jQuery autocomplete for the insta search functionality, nokogiri gem for the magnet link scraping, and Google fonts.
Exactly the same stack as movies.io :)
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#28Did you try background-position: top center; on the body element? Works better for unusual size windows (IMO).
No, I didn't try that. I have all wide screen devices at home, but I could understand that it potentially could be an issue with 4:3 displays. I'll roll it out on next deploy.
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#29Will https:// access be available?
I'll purchase an SSL cert within a week.
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#30great effort, I am using it atm
Thanks.