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Re: Show HN: movies.io — torrent search like it should be

#11
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Warning to those at work, there's at least one NSFW image in rotation on the landing page.

Yup, sorry about that. The NSFW filter is off on our TMDb requests but apparently some go through regardless.

The rotation is random from all movies in the db btw, not featured or anything.

Re: Show HN: movies.io — torrent search like it should be

#12

Nice job, the first thing I would like to see is a tag for CAMS and TeleSyncs.

Thanks for the feedback!

The initial version had a lot more tags, but we've learned that lambda users even go so far as to ignore what 720p/1080p means.

It's a nice UI/UX challenge to accomodate for both beginners and power users. We have a few power users in our ranks and since we scratch an itch we'd definitely like to address our own needs as well.

Consider this version an MVP, good enough for most people.

Re: Show HN: movies.io — torrent search like it should be

#15

How do you plan on staying online?

- Not based in the US: check - Not hosting any infringing content: check - DMCA-compliant: check - Not selling anything: check - Not doing ads, not tracking you [1]: check - Not trying to sell your data elsewhere: check Lawyers will handle the rest. We're not interested in piracy, just very very good UI/UX. Stay tuned. [1] We use Gaug.es and Piwik with IP fuzzing. They provide enough high-level metrics so that we can…

...but it's called movies.io.

Re: Show HN: movies.io — torrent search like it should be

#16
I miss the time when torrentz.com (now https://torrentz.eu/ ) used to have magnet links. Now I have to click through to piratebay (or worse).

Although I don't plan on using this, nice job. One point - I don't think you should move the search bar around. It would be better if it was in the same place all the time, whether there are results or not.

Re: Show HN: movies.io — torrent search like it should be

#18

How do you plan on staying online?

- Not based in the US: check - Not hosting any infringing content: check - DMCA-compliant: check - Not selling anything: check - Not doing ads, not tracking you [1]: check - Not trying to sell your data elsewhere: check Lawyers will handle the rest. We're not interested in piracy, just very very good UI/UX. Stay tuned. [1] We use Gaug.es and Piwik with IP fuzzing. They provide enough high-level metrics so that we can…

I liked the very very good UI/UX, good job!

What are the technologies involved ?

Re: Show HN: movies.io — torrent search like it should be

#19

It certainly looks nice, but it's not really accurate. E.g. the page for Moon links to Twilight torrents: http://movies.io/m/9t

Our algorithm tries to things: to flag the bad torrents so they're not displayed, and to not penalize the rare torrents you get for old/unpopular movies.

Moon has bad results because the title is only one word, and Twilight's sorry excuse for a movie happens to be the same year.

We'll definitely look to improve that, thanks for the feedback.

Re: Show HN: movies.io — torrent search like it should be

#20
post #16

I miss the time when torrentz.com (now https://torrentz.eu/ ) used to have magnet links. Now I have to click through to piratebay (or worse). Although I don't plan on using this, nice job. One point - I don't think you should move the search bar around. It would be better if it was in the same place all the time, whether there are results or not.

Fair point about the search bar, we'll try to think of it in the redesign.

Do you have any idea why torrentz pulled magnet links? Seems insane that linking to sites with .torrent files is easier to defend (legally) than having directly magnet links.

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