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06/02/2026 09:07 — dionsa

Thank you for your service 🙏. The True Goat 🐐

06/02/2026 09:08 — Anonymous: "ABCD"

06/02/2026 09:27 — halofan

will the data used for cache.animetosho.org/nyaasi be provided in the dumps?

06/02/2026 11:15 — admin

The current plan is to include those.
The one thing I think I'll hold back on is AniDB data (not sure they exactly like the idea).

06/02/2026 13:58 — Anonymous: "AniDBHater"

You should release the AniDB data. Theyre kind of a scurge on the anime community having the most accurate data yet holding it back behind such an aggressive api.

07/02/2026 06:13 — admin

I'm with you on not liking their API (or their general stance on aggressively protecting "their" data).
I don't intend to antagonise anyone though (and my releasing a scraped copy of AniDB might make them more aggressive with restrictions).

If someone wishes make some publicly accessible DB dump of AniDB, there's nothing really stopping them other than the effort required.

06/02/2026 14:46 — Anonymous: "anonymous"

please release the anidb data. Thank you!!

06/02/2026 10:26 — Anonymous

Luxury/Daddy/NeoLX/H3LL/RIN/Cuckmaster9000 must be happy.

I guess Miru/Hayase is now DOA.

06/02/2026 11:10 — geha714

Sad to read the news but thankful for all you did all these years and wishing you the best of luck in whatever you do next

06/02/2026 11:13 — admin

Thanks for all the comments (including any posted later) - they're all highly appreciated!

06/02/2026 11:14 — geha714

take a bow, sir! you deserve it

06/02/2026 11:19 — Anonymous: "Anon"

As someone that contributed to many releases (torrents, not DDL) that end up reposted on this site, this is rough.
Just recently one big archive went down that had many years of releases, mostly because the owner wanted to move on with his life, not unlike here.
And as someone that really doesn't want to get involved with private trackers and prefers to only use public trackers, this was a good fallback for archives, while the DDL links die easily after a few weeks or months, the nzbs are good for many years.
It was also invaluable because it archived subs, letting you compare or use other subs without having to download the release, if it was even seeded at all, for old enough ones.
Even the nyaa post/comment archive is useful as some torrents can be hidden or deleted, and it served as a cross-reference.
While for most AT is just for weekly DDLs, the site was so incredibly useful outside of it.
I really hope someone will pick up the torch and merge their db with yours, and I hope most software gets released to save the amount of work others have to do - AT always had high performance and a very minimal HTML-only design (as opposed to "modern" javascript only monstrosities) despite not running on anything but cheap dedicated servers and VPSes.
Some part of me feels tempted to try to continue it, but the realization of all the daily/weekly maintenance work that would involve prevents me from committing, things like series detection, stuck torrents, retrying on upload failures, spam, manually having to let some items through, supporting new DDL providers and so on, are things that probably would take quite a bit of time, and as someone that handles something similar already, I know it takes a good chunk of time even when a lot of it is automated.
I genuinely hope someone does continue it, at the very least mirroring nyaasi/TT and especially posting releases to usenet and a few DDLs that are fast enough.
I disagree with the claim that leaving it unmaintained would be bad - I think even extracting subs, posting to usenet and mirroring nyaa posts - which doesn't need new DDL maintenance is immensely valuable to most users, even if no provider besides gofile or some other fast one was supported, it'd still be more than enough for many.
There's nothing wrong with nyaa being "unmaintained", it's fast, it's up and releasers can post to it, this is all we really need. The only bad part is that they no longer allow registration which prevents new blood from posting.
Thanks for the amazing service admin, and I hope someone picks up the torch, or at minimum provides a mirror with the nzbs/subs/nyaa posts, it doesn't even have to have the screenshots if they take that much space, although raw subs would really be nice (attachments often are duplicates and not as important).

07/02/2026 06:01 — admin

Thanks for your thoughts, the idea of shutting down some parts has crossed my mind, but I don't think it'd work out.

As far as backend processing goes, most of it actually runs itself. What probably takes the most effort maintaining would actually be the AniDB tagger (people come up with new naming schemes, AniDB lacks aliases people use, people debate on which season of Demon Slayer to label, fixing up mislabelled stuff etc). Stuff like retrying uploads has mostly been automated, so I only need to keep an eye on it.

There's some degree of unpredictability that goes with managing services like these, e.g. a disk dies, DB corrupts itself, some AI bot goes crazy scraping things consuming lots of resources etc. Average workload might be low, but these events can throw a wench in if you had planned your time otherwise. Other stuff includes keeping on top of relevant news/comments, maintaining opsec etc.
Unfortunately a lot of this can't really be eliminated by getting rid of parts of the system.

There's also the me factor - as long as AT is around, I'd feel compelled to improve things. So I think I just need to walk away from it entirely.

08/02/2026 03:37 — Anonymous: "Anon"

The AniDB tagger does sound like a lot of manual work. You can probably look up the episode on anidb's database, but only after someone bothered adding metadata for it, which might take hours to days. So I'm guessing you have to have a lot of regular expressions to detect each group's naming scheme? Does this have to run regularly to re-classify episodes that are unclassified?
Recently I saw someone recommend "thexem.info" to some release group that posts on nyaa, but doesn't care to post on other sites with more stringent metadata requirements, in the context that they should post on other sites too.
Let's say, for example, CR decides to use absolute numbering for one anime, while for another it uses season numbers, other times this is mixed.
This seems like a pain to manage even for someone doing releases for a single group, as opposed to needing to manage this for every release out there.
Of course, someone making a clone of AT could just not classify it to save on time, then the burden is on the user to try/search all the names groups use until they get what they want.
It wouldn't be anywhere near as comfortable as AT, although I've encountered a number of times where an episode ends up in "Unsorted".
Maybe another option would be to offer users a way to contribute this metadata, something like anidb does, but even if that reduces the burden on you, now the burden is on moderators to resolve disputes or avoid abuse, and that starts complicating things again, not to mention it complicates backend implementation considerably.

> There's some degree of unpredictability that goes with managing services like these, e.g. a disk dies, DB corrupts itself, some AI bot goes crazy scraping things consuming lots of resources etc.
That's probably unavoidable, although at least you have backups? AT actually seems quite snappy, meanwhile TokyoTosho seems to be constantly dying probably due to high number of bot requests.
I often access this site through a proxy/VPN/Tor without any issues and unlike many sites you don't block them in an attempt to deal with bots. I've also seen some bots cause serious problems fo Apache, but nginx-like httpds do much better.
Any suggestions for how to deal with this? Nyaa tends to ratelimit, which sort of works, but I know many people tend to use your site's mirror of nyaa because they find their VPN is often ratelimited. TT doesn't, but is quite slow. Sites that use WAF's like cloudflare often break automation (RSS and others).

> There's also the me factor - as long as AT is around, I'd feel compelled to improve things. So I think I just need to walk away from it entirely.
Never found anyone to share some of the burden with you over the years? I suppose it is often hard to find people you can trust to handle things.

I think what's on everyone's mind right now is what will we transition to, if any of us should pick up the torch, how much work it would be.
Compared to the past, it seems fewer people are willing to do projects like these in the current year, but I hope to be proven wrong.

Not directly related, but how will the NZB and subs be released? A torrent? Maybe archive.org post? Posting it to usenet? A number of these? I'm assuming there's no point in scraping the NZBs/subs yourself as it would add a lot of load to the storage server, while an actual upload of all those tiny files would be a lot more efficient.
Do you know of anyone else that posts to usenet current releases? I'm aware of one site, but it seemed private and with questionable requirements like "no collectors", whatever that means, can't even make a large anime archive based on past postings like that?

Currently the average public anime pirate is in a tight spot: I'm aware of 2 large archives going back to 15 years of releases or so, and of course AT's nzbs.
One of those archives recently shut down (monthly costs were at least 15x yours, owner paid them out of his pocket too), the other is kind of incomplete, and with AT's nzbs going away, the only options left are private trackers for many, at least for older releases, not a pleasant spot to be in.

08/02/2026 09:37 * — admin

So I'm guessing you have to have a lot of regular expressions to detect each group's naming scheme?

There's a bunch of heuristics and guesswork to try and handle typical cases. Yes, a lot of regexes.

Does this have to run regularly to re-classify episodes that are unclassified?

It does retry for a while because sometimes the torrent gets renamed, or more info gets added to AniDB.

Maybe another option would be to offer users a way to contribute this metadata

I've had the thought, but generally liked the idea of handling most of these cases in code, as it effectively improves the automated matching, whilst handing off the task means more manual work for someone.

although at least you have backups?

There are backups, but I almost never use them. Restoring a backup often means you have to reprocess a bunch of stuff and deal with potential mismatches etc. It's basically a last resort.
Fortunately the design of this system has some redundancy (database is replicated from the updates server to the web servers), so I can often use that.

Any suggestions for how to deal with this? Nyaa tends to ratelimit

There's rate limiting here too; I'm probably more generous than Nyaa.si though, plus AT would get less traffic than Nyaa.
Otherwise I generally keep an eye on traffic patterns to see what looks problematic.

Never found anyone to share some of the burden with you over the years?

I've actually avoided doing that. Not having to co-ordinate has its perks, and I always wanted the option to walk away. Also harder to label the operation a 'conspiracy', which requires at least two people.

how will the NZB and subs be released? A torrent?

I'm thinking of putting them in a 7z (or maybe multiple). The smaller packages (like NZBs) will probably just be on the storage server.
The larger stuff will probably be a torrent.
I'm not sure if anyone's interested in the screenshot data, which is the largest data set.

Do you know of anyone else that posts to usenet current releases?

I haven't really been keeping up with it, so I don't know.

06/02/2026 11:48 — Anonymous: "CatsAreTheBest"

Thank you for everything.
I'm really sad to see this website go down. I've been using it for many years. Thank you again.
Wishing you the best of luck with whatever you're planning to do.

06/02/2026 12:26 — Tarte_aux_quetsches

Thanks for all those years AnimeTosho, you'll be missed.

06/02/2026 13:41 — Anonymous: "Tomor"

If possible provide some of the queries you use in nyaa.
Thanks

07/02/2026 05:10 — admin

I'm not sure what you're asking for - could you clarify?
The updates script uses Nyaa's RSS feed to discover new entries to process.

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