Ah I see, thanks for clearing that up.

The last big sucker in sight is Usenet.  Could there be any Direct-files type solution that could work with Usenet?

(sorry to be so selfish as to ask)

I think it was really slow at the time since it seems that it's already finished downloading on the server, but the file upload take 3 hours to finish
Sorry for the false-alarm

DNA-based storage devices are coming.  Everything in the world in a thimble.  Just hold on for a few more decades...

I don't intend to discriminate or be selective about content (or at least, try not to), so that wouldn't really fit in with AT's goals (it may make more sense for someone else to attempt this).
But even if that were to occur, there's still the question of where you get 'long-term storage'.

Thanks for the suggestion nonetheless.

A number of these services offer "premium" accounts, which you subscribe to for a periodic fee. Some offer a "lifetime" subscription, which basically means that, for a one-time payment, you stay premium as long as the service stays alive (or they decide to ditch you).
Typically this one-time payment is somewhat high to offset the fact that you're no longer paying monthly/yearly fees.

I suppose you've considered just sending folder torrents to long-term storage, thus getting the BD series but skipping out on daily noise?

Links seem to be available from what I can tell?
Maybe it was just a little slow for that file?

Claiming 'unlimited' is very misleading indeed, though I knew that before I started this. This is why I had never attempted to try keeping links alive over the long term before - it's simply not feasible.

Uploading to 1Fichier only really worked because we were taking advantage of what they offered.
To be quite honest, I'm surprised it lasted as long as it has, and how reliable it has been (you may not have seen it as reliable, but considering what it is, I'd have to say it's worked quite well).

This only affects the "Direct" links which show up on older files for logged in users. This was aimed to mitigate the fact that most download links here die after a while, by providing a long lasting download option.

what do you mean about lifetime memberships?

I don't even understand how some of them stay in business.

• promise x (storage)
• charge y (euro/dollars)
• withhold 90% of x (storage)
• keep 100% of y (euro/dollars)
• profit

That's how.

Remember the people who bought unlimited lifetime memberships in MU (Megaupload)?

Suckers!  Let's home the government doesn't try to remember.

Can't blame them for charging ppl and then deleting files + taking away what was paid for? nah. They get all the blame for that.

Funny how if regular people like us do that nobody says 'I don't blame him.' instead we go to jail for fraud. :p

Seen this in many DDL-Services.  It's only unlimited until you're a money loser for them.

Can't exactly blame them.  I don't even understand how some of them stay in business.

Almost 2 years ago that same guy (from your link) wrote a post showing 1fichier's lying ways. Somebody else showed the handwriting on the wall in that same thread:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Piracy/commen...t/dlf5bli/

It's a blatant shady lie to change the rules about "unlimited" plans after taking customers' money. Then 1F beats around the bush about the ACTUAL limit they expect UNLIMITED customers to stick to. Nasty, scheming, lying fuckers.

If you mean to buy storage for an archive, it's a loser's game to commit to expenses and hope for donations or be stuck with the bills, year after year.

You need to get a discreet little 'donate' button dude, run a money bomb campaign or something, this site is one of the best anime sites, ever.. No joke.

I know most site users wouldn't even notice a fund raiding campaign, but hey, it might be worth a try

This won't affect the day to day running of the site I hope?

Nice!

It looks like some of the file link is not properly fetched:
e.g.: https://animetosho.org/view/horriblesu...kv.1312292

only NZB link is available, no other FH provided

P.S: I think it's not only that link, since on first page some of the list doesn't have other FH in preview either, haven't really checked them since the linked one is the one I needed right now

Oops, should be fixed now, thanks.

Sad indeed, since your direct links were forming the kind of valuable public file archive that torrents can never really hope to be. Still, the system was always going to be either dependent on the whims of a third party or impossibly expensive to maintain, so I can only give that tight-lipped, teary-eyed, ultra-manly salute given by sea captains in movies as their vessels sink to the briny depths of the watery blue, and thank you sincerely for your efforts.

Nothing is updating at all.

BTW, seems like the large amount of updates have slow down the site, isn't it?

Really sad, but it was a matter of time I suppose. I hope than a viable alternative can be found but in the end, we have to adapt to this. Thanks anyway for your work AnimeTosho!

1Fichier has dropped their "cold storage" limit to 2TB.
The majority of our files (for "Direct" links) are rarely accessed, so sit in cold storage. As I put around 20TB of files per account, this means that roughly 90% of files will be deleted once 1Fichier does their purge, which will happen in a few days.

I've had a look at options, but I don't think I can really continue providing Direct links under these conditions. I'm thinking of removing limits around Direct links for the next few days until the files are removed, since the whole system will likely die.
A few of the accounts need renewing, but I'm probably not going to bother doing this any more, just to keep 10% of files alive.

Unfortunate, but not particularly surprising - I don't see any practical way to keep DDL links alive over the long term.

If you're wondering why, the server here does employ server-side caching of some pages, so the About page would've been served from cache rather than via the gateway, avoiding the broken gateway.

Thanks for the suggestion. Setting up a Tor hidden service does have its uses, but I don't see a pressing need for it at the moment. Unfortunately, it wouldn't solve 502 errors.

AT is current accessible via Tor, for those that need it, just via an exit node rather than a hidden service.

It doesn't do this any more. Maybe the search index barfed itself (I've seen this happen, but don't know why). The index is fully rebuilt once a day, so it usually does resolve itself.

Unfortunately, a hard problem to track down though :/

Thanks for letting me know, but I highly doubt that's the case - AT usually gets a bunch of bots crawling it, and they're usually throttled if they get too aggressive. The cause is likely some bug in the setup somewhere.

Thanks.
Any subdomain of animetosho.org (i.e. *.animetosho.org address) is under AT's control, so mirror.animetosho.org is an official mirror.

I doubt it has anything to do with any sort of DoS attack. There's some bug in the setup somewhere.

This may be easy to say, but doing this, in a practical way, can be quite difficult.
You probably won't know until you try it yourself.

Updated, thanks.

Thanks for the suggestion. Unfortunately the data is matched against AniDB, which doesn't supply IDs for those. If you know of some resource which bridges Kitsu/Anilist with AniDB, I can look into it.

Updated.

dmca is harmless as long as you comply with the request.  No fines, no fees.  That's why the industry is working to get rid of it.  They'd prefer to sue.

Well, then you've both got hobbies.  The difference being that MeH sounds like he got laid on Valentine's Day and Anti-Meh sounds like he didn't.

you mean ramensama92? I found out about this site site from his/her post.
If you won't stop stealing links, we will not stop giving proper credit on your comments either.

1000 time? Yeah right, what if the 101st person is a copyright troll?

die spam

Thanks for clearing that up.  It was the size of the difference between 100 million and 1.4 billion that made me think you were making some other point.

And thanks for your views on the other stuff.

Well, you can't be more right!
While what you say is correct, what I wanted to point out is the fact that the population of each of the two Asian countries are more than the population of the whole continent of Africa with 54 countries; i.e. China population = 1.420 billion , India population = 1.368 billion , Africa population = 1.308 billion.

I can't understand what you're trying to say 🤨 It's nothing personal. Those are just some facts about the world we live in and I believe it doesn't hurt to know a little about it 🤟

I didn't know about it but after reading all the spams I believe it's just one person (ramenchan?!) bitching about the links (or is he that said forum's PR trying to advertise it here?!) 👎 The K is changed a bit to evade DMCA and my reason to share the links is that I believe that the case of a file being downloaded 1000 times and get DMCA is better than the case of a file being downloaded by 100 people and never get DMCA notice. After all sharing makes everyone happy 😇

"The current population of China is 1,418,050,277 as of Tuesday, February 5, 2019, based on the latest United Nations estimates. China population is equivalent to 18.41% of the total world population. China ranks number 1 in the list of countries (and dependencies) by population."

"The current population of India is 1,362,935,995 as of Thursday, February 7, 2019, based on the latest United Nations estimates.; India population is equivalent to 17.74% of the total world population."

Read these as 1.4 billion and 1.4 billion (with rounding)

--I didn't think India's population was so close to China's population, but sorry, I'm not following your point.  Is it about personal truths or something like that?  -That a person can believe what they want and do what they want?

btw, there are some messages directed at you from a forum, if you haven't noticed.

Did you know?
The population of China and India are 110 and 60 million, respectively, more than the population of the whole African continent 😅

The population of China is about two times of the population of the whole European continent 😅

The 3 most common languages in the world are Mandarin Chinese, Spanish and English 😐

Just go to hell, leacher!

[Not interested in slightest]
[Come back with more catnip nyahahaha]

There has been someone who keeps telling people they need how to read.  That person has a serious communication problem.  His comments generally don't make sense.  Get a clue, when you have to tell so many people that they don't know how to read, the problem lies with you.  Best wishes.

And it's a rude thing to say to people, btw.

I might like to teach a lesson or two, but not the meaning of words! Try to show it to others, go to school, whatever. But I rly think you are trying to troll here. In any way I'm out, srsly.

It sort of answers a question I'd wondered about: What if a human-ish person had big anime eyes.