I think admin said "shut down" not "transfer ownership". You can read more here : https://animetosho.org/about/shutdown

ADMIN - Are you going to inform us, if the site will become "comunity" or if it changes hands to some one else, before you go?

Sorry anon, the comment was meant for Roy (the cry baby).

Wrong Roy. I've been a pirate longer than this site has been around. I have a seedbox and a VPN for torrenting. I use DDL once in awhile but mainly rely on torrents.

Roy, you are a real dum bass. The admin hasn't "betrayed" anyone. He never claimed he would run this site forever.
Get a seedbox and learn to torrent instead of expecting others too provide you DDL for free.

Stop acting like they owe you anything

He should've thought of that before pulling the site. Maybe they should've had a successor ready to take the site over instead of killing it. But you just want to see us pirates fail, corpo. I bet you secretly pay for Crunchyroll too, just another double agent who wants to take this site down.

We need a successor site, after the admin betrayed us.

I don't control what they do, but I expect that it will stay there.

Underrated part of this site is being able to see deleted torrents.

i just find anime in a way which is not feasible in nyaa at all and I guess it would never be, i am trying something with scripts so i could atleast see size of torrent without opening, and i don't expect any good alternative soon as to make website like this stable it takes years and one more thing is I have developed habit of using this site

If you want to kill time, you can enter all the posts one by one.

the website will remain in waybackmachine right? atleast the old stuff?

Yeah, staying with torrents....

There are probably free ones out there, but they filter out all of the binaries newsgroups.

There are no free providers? all usenet are paid?

Sorry about that, should be fixed now.

can confirm

seems like the site isn't updating

Thanks.

You're out of context,

You really should research all the advanced hardware that was used to create google

You need to pay for a Usenet service provider. Look at the admin's link a few posts up.

nyaa shows several uploads today - something stuck?

Hi i am new to NZB what is the server to use? i tryed animetosho.org in NZBGet, but i get "Connection to feed.animetosho.org failed: Error 10060 " am i missing something here?

I don't unfortunately.
You can try searching for guides, like this one to start off (be aware that many of them out there are ancient though). One thing that you may not find in guides yet could be important to you, are privacy implications - providers may attach info pointing back to you on posts you make, so consider that when making public posts.

The way advanced mean is not like that, as the world more modern, they use new hardware such as SSDs and the latest server devices.

There's no way they're still using 12 years old hardware.

Thanks for your many years of running this site admin! Going to miss the nzb mirrors for archiving posts!

Usenet is 12 years older than the Internet itself so it's not that advanced lol

Just a collection of computers can that talk using a protocol

Some might host anime if you pay them

It's easy to download, but you need a paid subscription and sabnzbd. And an indexer but everything here is on nzbking.

I've never used usenet, how advanced is this service?

Do you have any advice or a guide for someone who wants to post to public usenet?

> You don't care about piracy.

Neither do you if you personally have to set up a site.
I have several places I can get files from and will miss this site mainly because of the one stop shopping.
BTW, the admin wants to move on to other things he didn't say he was being forced to shut down.

I'm sure the admin has given it some thought but doing so would make who he is known.
Also he said he would release the files so someone can set up their own site, maybe you?
If not then piss off.

They are doing us a favour by killing the site and leaving us with no alternatives? Oh I am SO grateful. Nyaa is barely maintained anymore. Tosho is closing down. This is how CR wins. You don't care about piracy.

He could hand over the servers and meta-data to someone who can host the site? You know, instead of killing such a brilliant, important piracy archive. We used this site for years and now it's dying. This is how corporations win, when we shutdown and close off all our resources, pirates are left with nothing. How many more sites needd to die before you understand the gravity of the situation? If you want to pay for Crunchyroll, be my guest.

I will be missing this site too! Where can I get translated Donghua and Anime in one easy place.
hope someone can suggest alternatives.
You guys are the best and a thousand thanks is not enough.

Thank you so much for all your hard work on this site.

You're looking for something trivial like this, going to work there, unemployed!

for so long a time,maybe more than 5 years i am using this webside instead of nyaa ,because the region where i was born and live is quite unic,anyway it also does not allow me to comment .
this webside have done a great work in this period,thank you very much and hope you success in the future.

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Sites need someone to manage them though - they don't really just "run themselves". You can have different levels of involvement, but it's never really zero.
Even a pure community group on some third-party managed website needs management (unless you don't care for any moderation whatsoever).

I must have been blind.
Thank you for pointing me to your contact form!
I just sent you a message.

I mainly meant as a way to keep the site operational after your departure. But, I'm sure it's a lot more complicated than organizing a community group to keep it running when things break.

The idea is, since it's mostly automated, turn it into an anonymous self-run site with minor intervention when needed. You can depart and stop, and the community would take on the responsibility.

I know it's not likely possible (since setting up a community is extremely difficult) or will happen, but it's just sad when quality parts of the internet die off.

You can post here, or if you really don't want others to see it, go here.

I could not find a way to contact the admin directly.
Would someone please point me to the correct contact?

The updates process here is pretty much all automated already.
As for 'community run', I'm not sure how that'd work exactly. If it's basically people manually reuploading from torrents with associated metadata, I'm sure someone could set up a forum to accomplish that. It wouldn't be what this site does though.

As a hypothetical ... what would it take to change this site to community run or automated?

Is it money? Logistics?

No, it's unrelated. As above commenter points out, the feed is running in degraded mode due to the server running out of bandwidth. Search queries (those with 'q' parameter) are likely affected the most.
It should be back to normal in 2-3 days.

Thanks for raising the issue and sorry for the inconvenience.

From the top of AT main page:
"8th Feb 2026: The storage/feed/API server is quickly approaching its bandwidth quota (which resets in a week). <...> (some requests will fail) to conserve bandwidth until the quota resets."