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08/09/2014 09:19 — Ueda

Nyaa is down again. :(

08/09/2014 10:26 * — Galaxy_Defenders

Commie is also down -same server.

TT is up, Horrible is up (we believe they moved off the Nyaa server during the last outage), MAL is up.

No conclusions to draw, and no specific info yet (that I've seen).

It could be maintenance or fine-tuning recent changes.

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15:40

Length of time and comments elsewhere suggest this is another DDoS attack.

TT has been running slow, but not slower now than a few hours ago.
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For those interested in the first DDoS attack on Nyaa, there is an article at a well-known torrent website:

http://torrentfreak.com/anti-piracy-ou...es-140904/

They explore some possibilities, but in brief conclude: "...it seems likely that someone who doesn’t appreciate unofficial anime sites operating smoothly is behind the attack. Who that might be will remain a mystery, at least for now."

08/09/2014 17:35 — Envy

Ah Mendokusai....

MAL never got DDoS attack some mod's account got hacked which from what I heard is normal.

09/09/2014 09:17 * — Galaxy_Defenders

Do you mean today or the first time? MAL's site administrator said they were DDoSed on Sept 4 (concurrent with Nyaa's first attack), that MAL did lots to deal with the attack, and asked the DDoS attacker to open a dialogue with them:

http://myanimelist.net/forum/?topicid=658633

09/09/2014 09:39 * — admin

Easy to miss, but that's a post from 2013. Even more confusing that it got bumped recently.
Otherwise, the similarity in dates is probably just a coincidence.

09/09/2014 11:19 * — Galaxy_Defenders

Thanks for the catch. It was at the top of their news blog column when I saw it.

The seasonality probably reflects school terms, if anything.

So the Nyaa server was the only target? That changes the complexion of things.

11/09/2014 23:12 — ninjacloud

Yuki admin...
Why the folders you delete still there with nothing inside, I think they move to new date when you delete them, I mean why not removing the folder too, the list is getting bigger :P

12/09/2014 06:48 — Tibb

All of them should be gone now.

12/09/2014 08:36 — Anonymous

All Nyaa URL's (except the homepage) have been wiped from google now, it suggests someone a little more powerful than a couple of disgruntled anime haters are actually behind all this DDOS business and recent downtime.

12/09/2014 09:20 — admin

I found plenty of Nyaa URLs still on Google (try searching for site:nyaa.se inurl:torrentinfo).
Perhaps Google down ranks websites which are unresponsive.

Google is fairly transparent with its takedowns - if you wish, you can do a search at Chilling Effects to see what the last nyaa.se takedown was.

12/09/2014 09:56 — Anonymous

Well they might not be wiped completely then, but yesterday simply typing Nyaa.se and a show name would bring up pages of torrents for that show, now there are no Nyaa torrent urls in those results at all.

12/09/2014 20:16 — Anonymous

Nyaa links still shows up, i didn't see anything diff.

12/09/2014 13:47 — Anonymous

Add support for Shanaproject.com/deadfrog.me since Nyaa.se admin thinks it's funny to make the website down to increase popularity (ask anyone on the #HS IRC)

12/09/2014 18:30 — Anonymous

Really? I've been searching any info about nyaa for hours, cant believe it's a joke, underwater and commie have no other sites for releases besides nyaa, irc isnt even working for me..

12/09/2014 18:40 — Anonymous

What client are you using for irc?

12/09/2014 19:02 — Anonymous

I'm using andchat becase my pc is brken so I'm on android for now, but is nyaa really going to stay offline to incrase popularity? even torrentfreak talked about them, but staying offline for so long.. I dunno what to think -.-

12/09/2014 20:56 * — Envy

Ah Mendokusai....

I dunno if Nyaa's is getting DDoS attacked again or not.

But there not staying offline to increase there popularity seeing how most groups uses nyaa's.

12/09/2014 22:02 — Anonymous

Before the site went offline I read someone claimed to have hacked the site and they also announced to start a ddos attack, that comment is on twitter in the "nyaa chat txt" account

12/09/2014 22:13 — Anonymous

Here https://mobile.twitter.com/NyaaComment...6426938368 they were attacked, but isnt it taking too long? I hear HS are on the same isp, and they're back online already

13/09/2014 03:14 * — ichimoku1134

It can't be about increasing popularity. Nyaa is already well-known as it is. Newfags don't even know about TT and only download stuff from nyaa.

13/09/2014 05:16 — admin

I thought Shana Project just scrapes from TokyoTosho and Nyaa?

Deadfrog - their categories don't marry up nicely with those of Nyaa/TokyoTosho unfortunately.

I'm considering Anirena and Anime-Index as additional sources. Adding new sources does pose some problems, such as de-duplication (which doesn't really have any nice solution) etc, so can take time to implement.
Other source suggestions are welcome. Ideally ones with decent activity and an English anime category (this rules out places like Kickass, for example).

13/09/2014 09:09 — Anonymous

Would adding new sources just be a precaution against also losing TT in the future?

I haven't noticed that we've been missing any content without Nyaa?

13/09/2014 12:31 — admin

I suppose it could be.
It was more to complement the loss of Nyaa, and not rely explicitly on (the helpful) others posting everything to TT as well.

It's not really high on my priority list, as I expect Nyaa to fix their short term issues, but it could be something to think about long term.

13/09/2014 13:30 — Anonymous

Maybe you can avoid duplicates comparing the torrent hash? That would fix the issue if it were possble, wont work for re packs but thats just like now

14/09/2014 03:27 — admin

Currently the script checks whether the TokyoTosho link refers to a Nyaa page, and if not, checks the BTIH (BitTorrent Info Hash).
This works if the exact same torrent exists at both sites, but slight modifications, such as adding a tracker (or if the index that the torrent was uploaded to makes some changes), then the BTIH becomes different.
Probably not a big issue overall, although there's some other complications, like selecting what info to display (since it could be different between sources), handling cases like where it gets removed on one source etc.

Thanks for the suggestion anyway.

18/09/2014 00:29 — Anonymous

You can add and remove trackers and webseeds leaving the hash untouched, it changes only if you touch the file informations like folder or file names, I did it many times with torrentloader v1.5, it's the same method used by torrage and torcache when you upload a torrent, the php script automatically adds some default trackers like istole or publicbt etc, the main hash doesn't change

18/09/2014 02:54 — admin

Looks like you're right - announce isn't a part of the info section: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torrent_..._structure
I couldn't remember that particular detail. Though I do recall seeing the same torrent with different BTIH - maybe something was rearranged or the whole torrent was repackaged.

23/09/2014 07:47 — Anonymous

Yes sadly many sites dont care about the hash and use amateur scripts to manage the torrent files, which causes millions of ghost torrents with no seeds

23/09/2014 07:54 — Anonymous

Maybe you can find this code useful http://sourceforge.net/p/torrentloader...HEAD/tree/ its old but still working for 99% of torrents, only some torrents created with rare or uncommon clients arent supported

23/09/2014 12:47 — admin

Appreciate the link.
I'm not too sure what I'm supposed to make of it - I'll point out that the script already does duplicate detection based on BTIH ("torrent hash") if I didn't mention it already.

24/09/2014 02:17 — Anonymous

oh not for the script, just as reference if in the future you need to look in something like that, for some new idea or stuff related to editing torrents, etc

24/09/2014 05:10 — admin

Oh I see.
Thanks a lot for that then!

13/09/2014 05:30 — Anonymous

ask snowfag/daiz and stop speculating trash

13/09/2014 13:31 — Anonymous

Indeed, nyaa is still under attack actually

12/09/2014 14:56 — Anonymous

At least that's a *new* conspiracy theory...

12/09/2014 19:05 * — Tsubomi

Clicked on "hate this site" link... how could i hate this site?

I came here in early days of the site and thought, this site won't survive long. Especially with all seeding, leeching, bandwidth issues and server managing stuff. And no ads at all. Seriously, i have no words. Just want to say. Thank you admin for keeping this online for so long.

Now that MangaTraders & Nyaa is down. My manga source is gone. I wonder if it's possible to make a similar site or a sub-domain on this site to get latest english translated manga releases?

12/09/2014 22:48 — ninjacloud

I just read online and wait for the next chapter :D

12/09/2014 23:42 — rdruffy

Commenting because I like my avatar picture, meow!

Get/read it from scanlator website.

13/09/2014 01:04 — Galaxy_Defenders

Have you tried this site for manga:

http://manga.animea.net/

13/09/2014 02:20 — Anonymous: "Yamato-san"

Tibb, Yuki has became really slow from 2-3 days, site takes 4mins to load & when I try to download a file it won't start download at all. :(

13/09/2014 03:58 — Anonymous: "CvP"

I agree with you, It's happening with me too but from yesterday , unlike you The site won't load at all for me.
I think someone is abusing the server by eating most of the server's speed/ bandwidth because Someone uploaded 5-6 crayon shin-chan movie torrents from bakabt to tokyotosho so that animetosho & yuki can fetch it & provide ddl links, & it might be possible that users with insanely high speeds are abusing the server by downloading many big files at once.
I'm from Bangladesh, my net is slow, My maximum bandwidth is 50 kbits/sec. So it sucks being not able to download at all :(

Tibb-san
I really appreciate Animetosho's & your hardwork to help many people with Download links.
Here are some feedback/ suggestion to make Yuki even better.
I think torrents of Mini Encodes, Spammy re-encodes such as .mp5 files, files from [KaMi],[AE], [salvos], [gxs], M@nI, jacobswaggedup, Diogo4D, [KoTuWa] etc.
ungrateful spammy re-encoders like [NoobSubs] who make money by putting ads on their site & ask for donations just for re-encoding the work they din't did, Retaggers who reupload horriblesubs rips as their own - [CR], awi.etc
& many misleading (foreign translated),
I don't remember many group/ file names, but many italian, spanish, french. etc language subbed files are being fetched by yuki & animetosho. i.e : salvos, Diogo4D. etc should be banned/ skipped from fetching to yuki.
I think Downloads should be limited to 1 file at once per user.
Stats says currently there 471 folders and 2825 files, 1.03 TB in total, I think that files from the above mentioned spam groups which are currently at yuki should be removed.
It's my opinion though.
I'm Sorry if I said something wrong or rude.

13/09/2014 04:41 — Anonymous

Tibb is the subject of conspiracy theories?! Congratulations, Tibb! You're bigger than Nyaa now!

You can be our new Nyaa!

Blue pages!!!! --I need Blue Pages!!!!

13/09/2014 05:10 — Anonymous

Clearly you are just representing your own interests. Some people want/need mini-mkv or hardsubs. You don't, so you want them thrown out.

That's not an enlightened attitude.

btw, the mini's and the hardsubbed files are the smallest files, not the bandwidth problem

13/09/2014 05:31 — Anonymous

14/09/2014 06:38 * — Tibb

Yeah, I does seem a bit slower, I restarted the server (I haven't done it in a month or so).
This past week the server used 12.5 TB, so I guess it's a bit much to handle 1-2 TB a day for a single server? I will probably add cloudflare to the server some point soon (I lack free time, especially with Destiny in my hands). It should help with the speed and maybe the responsiveness. A multi-server setup would be another idea to combat this.

That 1 TB reflects the size of all files in the directory, it doesn't compute the size with all the folders (if it did, it would be crazy slow).

Even though I don't think the subgroups you mentioned gets a lot of downloads, there might be a few people who would like it.
I could always research on how to limit connections, throttle speed, simultaneous downloads, etc. but like above, I lack time (although it's always good to know).

14/09/2014 08:26 — admin

Servers don't get slower after sending lots of data. 2TB/day isn't a lot in the big scheme of things either.
CloudFlare will likely make things slower because it makes the route to the server less direct, although the effect is probably negligible.

Unfortunately, you may need to do a bit of investigation to figure it out, eg check CPU/RAM usage, disk/bandwidth speed, etc.
Hard to give useful info, but hope that helps.

14/09/2014 08:34 — Anonymous

I tend to see files stall at 99% downloaded then take some minutes to resume and finish, if that's useful to know. -It didn't used to do that.

(Up to 3 files stalled at 99% at one time, zero traffic for up to several minutes.)

14/09/2014 08:57 — Anonymous

Tibb-san, Pardon my ignorance, but would you using CloudFlare mean that a US-based company, answerable to US-based court subpoenas, would be recording our IP addresses and usage of your site? I'm thinking "Hotfiles" or "MU" happening again.

14/09/2014 11:15 — admin

In theory, yes, but:
- a whole bunch of anime download sites, including Nyaa, use it
- it's a bit harder to mount a case against a reverse proxy provider than it is against a file sharing site
- if what they claim is true, not much is logged anyway
- grabbing user IPs via subpoena seems horribly inefficient when you can just scrape them off trackers - and as such, you'll find that it's not often done

Personally I'd say you have little to worry about, if having your IP handed over to "authorities" is your concern.

15/09/2014 05:45 — Anonymous

Thanks for the answer and link --very informative.

As I read it, CloudFlare keeps the raw data for 4 hours right now, but would like to open options for the customers to learn more about their visitors but they will warn us when they make such changes. So some current comfort with deep foreboding for the future.

"Srape off trackers" --that's a Nyaa answer, not a yukinon one, right? Yukinon is sort of a special case, hence my concerns.

15/09/2014 11:55 — admin

I have no idea what CloudFlare will do, but they may only be interested in keeping summary data rather than full logs, which could make it harder to correlate information. Or maybe not - you can never really know what a 3rd party does...

Yes, scraping off trackers only matters for torrent sources and is irrelevant to DDL. What I meant is that there's not much reason to go to all the effort through the courts when there's plenty of users to target off trackers.
Think about it - if your goal is to, say, get some users to extort settlement fees from, where would you go looking?

Anyway, I take your points, though I personally think that you needn't really worry. If you are paranoid, I understand, but you may wish to consider doing more to mask your online activity. After all, you don't know what your ISP is logging, and the NSA probably has everything anyway.

15/09/2014 14:09 — Anonymous

1. Take torrents out of the conversation.  Anyone who uses torrents without a seedbox has either no concern or no comprehension of their exposure, or how their liabilities differ from those who download only.

2. The common wisdom taken from the collapse of Hotfiles, MU and Fileserve was that no one should download from US or Japanese based services.  And these days no one does.  They don't exist anymore, for good and compelling reasons.  But now here's a new change to consider: Services based in Europe and elsewhere may now have their data filtered through a US based company.  That seems worth some reflection.  There may, after all, be such a thing as "irrational complacency", to match your happy use of "paranoid".

3.  I personally believe those who download only have little to fear, probably.  The music industry went down that road in the US for a while, but gave it up.

16/09/2014 04:30 — admin

1. I think it's fair to say that there's safety in numbers. There's a good reason why not many torrent users have been sued. Extortion campaigns are different, but I feel that they're more based on fear rather than effective if you refuse to comply. Regardless, there's no evidence of this occurring with anime.
I'd say that direct downloads are probably "safer" than torrents, but I think it's a bit much calling torrents unsafe.

2. I don't think seized logs are as useful as you think they are. Logs are typically periodically pruned unless the service has some reason to keep them. Then there's the further issue of mapping IPs to subscribers from the ISP, assuming the ISP actually keeps logs of these and that they're willing to hand over this information easily. Finally, an IP doesn't actually prove you did it, eg if you run a proxy or open wi-fi access point.
Going after individuals is typically not particularly attractive, since you can't get a lot of money from them, there's a lot of them out there, and it can result in negative publicity at times.
I'm not familiar with what exactly happened with those file hosts being taken down, however I haven't heard of any users being sought after due to data seizures. Also you don't really know what a host necessarily does with information you send them. They could have servers all over the world and/or point to services from anywhere etc, so simply not being based in the US doesn't necessarily mean a lot.
Not hosting in the US is predominantly a decision of the website operator to protect their interests, and generally not driven by what users want. Where services such as Youtube, which hosts plenty of infringing content, are fine with hosting in the US due to the legal might behind them.

There's so far been no evidence that CloudFlare, or any other similar service, has been sought after to reveal visitors' IPs, and if they ever are, Tibb's site certainly wouldn't be the first on the hit list.

14/09/2014 20:39 — rdruffy

Commenting because I like my avatar picture, meow!

Is there any chance it's slow because of the theme?

I think it's slower since you changed the theme for displaying the list of files.

14/09/2014 21:06 — alpeia2

I believe the slowness with the theme has nothing to do with the server but with your computer instead. Because the list of files is long and with what that page is doing with the list causes the slowness. What I do and it works really well is to first sort the list by name. Once that is complete I use the sidebar to scroll up and down to find the files I need. It is important NOT to put your curser over the page untill you find your file, if you do it will slow you down again. With folders make sure to open them in a new tab or window leaving the main list as it is if you are going to look for more stuff. With files I right click and save as.

If downloading is slow I think it's because Yuki is getting popular in the community ;)

14/09/2014 23:10 — rdruffy

Commenting because I like my avatar picture, meow!

Ah, not putting cursor into page when loading? I'll try it. Thanks.

If only there's a way to automagically sorted into newest when loading the page like the first time Yuki was up :D

15/09/2014 07:28 — Anonymous

Slow opening folders, slow dl starts, slow dl ends. Tibb not asking, but disk-fragmentation/hd degradation.

If it's not too many users for bandwidth.

("theme" is actually a file manager)

13/09/2014 09:28 — Anonymous

I just got a CloudFlare page at Nyaa saying try again in 5 minutes.

Random luck or Nyaa getting back up?

13/09/2014 13:24 — Anonymous

That means they are still unde ddos, might be a good sign actually, it is motigating I guess, well at least this denies the conspiracy theory, good luck to nyaa

13/09/2014 14:05 * — dark

Nyaa came back online for a moment. site might be up soon :)

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