You had me up to "gameified with a cryptocurrency for no apparent reason".
Also the need for a transport daemon on every host, and the lack of inclusion in cURL, WGET, any language's standard library, Windows' protocol handler, etc. etc.
if you want a ray of hope, (s)he probably used scripts to gather Horrible's releases, re-encode and distribute them, and it may take a while to adapt to the new realities.
These encodes were originally uploaded to Nyaa and since Nyaa is dead, so are these torrents. I don't know where or if the Encoder is uploading now, as there was pretty much nothing known about the encoder.
* Torrenting has been becoming more and more dangerous all over the world. * If a new thing can fix that without making things complicated, it will spread fast. * If the new thing solves other issues as well (e.g. unseeded torrents), it will spread even faster.
The SAFE Network is my personal upcoming favorite because it's designed from the ground up with these in mind:
* privacy: nobody knows who you are and what you're doing, * security: everything is encrypted and signed, so you'll never get fake stuff, * performance: popular stuff gets mirrored until demand is satisfied, * robustness: data gets replicated automatically; churn is expected, not an exception.
Linking to a SAFE document will be no more complicated than linking to HTTP: you'll just use a different schema ("safe://") for e.g. that video in an HTML5 player. If the user already have the client installed, they won't even notice (or care) where the content is coming from. Zero fraction, basically.
It'll probably have a "pay the uploader" feature, by the way, where the original uploader would get some coins for each download (though not for the cached copies, only the masters, so revenue would reach a plateau, eventually). This would incentivize uploads for providers of popular content.
You know how little it would take to reach worldwide adoption? HorribleSubs releasing their stuff on it, that little :D
yeah it's a good archive but the owner dun goofed in the magnet link scheme He should remove the "%0a" at the end of the hash that creeped there for some reason.
I mean disqus up there, but you probably got the gist. The dude asked HS to upload torrents cuz he wouldn't use magnets, even though they work fine on their own. Some clever fellow even asked him if not using magnets was a religious thing. But, granted the HS disqus feed is full of newbs and many shitposters so not really representative. Only went there for teh dramah since nyaa shut down.
Have temporarily disabled AniDex. Torrent download links are broken, and many magnet links aren't resolving. I'll turn it back on once they fix most of the site.
ah, space shouldn't be an issue for them, but i see what you mean. at least with the wayback machine it'd make it easier to find stuff when sites go down.
but yeah, keep archiveteam in mind for the future.
Not a very good way to judge the general population though. People who don't have issues are less likely to post, so what you're going to see isn't really representative.
Other people were much harsher, myself included. The community has to go there eventually but now is really not the time. Too many people cant basically understand torrents and complain bcz they have to use magnet links for instance. Just look at the HS discord feed.
All you need to download a torrent is the hash but you have to spoonfeed them, if it's not clickable don't hold your breath for the majority to rebuild the magnet URI scheme from the hash.
And for all these techs to work you need people for peer to peer. No community = no go. Hence You cant start it with them (at the moment) nor without them.
I'll leave that to someone else... Although that seems really wasteful, to be honest. Maintaining a database and distributing that makes much more sense. If I do decide to shutdown, I'll keep that in mind.
admin, how about adding to your scraping scripts a line that simultaneously adds pages to archive.org's wayback machine? also, if you ever decide to shut everything down please contact archiveteam like pomf.se did? http://www.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=Pomf.se
because nothing like the Nyaa shutdown could happen when it will be built on this thing :)
Except people generally won't, because it yields way too much control an owner has over their site. Even if you ignore that, these P2P systems are too fundamentally different from traditional setups, and adapting a working website is no small feat. Combined with the fact that everything's super new and very immature, and userbase adoption very low, it'll be a long time before anything serious ends up there, if ever.
Still, it may only need one motivated individual, and anime is one of the few niches where the community is open to obscure technologies. But, as one who runs a website, I can't see such a thing happening any time soon.
Thanks for the info though, and apologies for the negativity.
Doesn't sound like it. Those P2P protocols seem to largely be completely decentralised. Having multiple servers is still primarily centralised, just a little more redundant than having only one.
I can't see a script being able to correctly categorise each item though? I don't think assuming that all/most of the fansubs there only ever release into a single category...
Should be easy to write a php/perl/python script to grab magnet uri from torrents on selected popular fansub groups on minglong. May be post a notice on top of AT, so an AT user/visitor with that programing skills with make one for us?
You can already one click download torrents via browser just like ddl. And you can also stream torrents on browser. There's even option to use TOR for that. Bittorrent have evolved in the past 3 years.
04/05/2017 17:23 — Anonymous