The problem with torrents is that you're broadcasting to the world what you're doing, and torrents can contain what courts have considered proof of your identity and proof that you have violated someone's copyright.   In the US, some courts have delivered default judgements of $15,000 per such violation on such evidence.  Some lawyers have also found this an easy way to send debt collectors after people with a minimum of effort, even if you do not respond to a lawsuit.  Often they just need to send a letter offering to settle for several hundred dollars, or else.  So maybe no one will bother you, or maybe you will find you will lose your next 10 years of income.  It makes life exciting perhaps.  Given the  choice between lawyers and poison snakes, I would go with the snakes.

I was referring to the legal risks.  There aren't any others, really.

Supposedly direct downloads are much more dangerous than torrents. Of course for beginners. The number of fake downloads. Popup ads containing malware.

and you should be sure you understand the risk of torrents before you use them

if you mean listing on AT, it only mirrors torrents posted on Nyaa and a few other torrent sites and only those which qualify as English translated anime.  Read the About/FAQs link under the login for more info.

OK so I know this is going to be a total face palm for some of you here but please be nice. I love the site and have been using it for some time. I have a few titles in my personal library that are NOT available anywhere but my library. I want to share them but have absolutely no idea how to upload them. After your done screaming and throwing things at your screen, any help would be appreciated

Gotcha, ty for the response! Again, it's not super important. If you wanna keep the website super light then I can respect that.

Thanks for the super useful site! You're doing great!

Haven't looked into it, but if it's for a period of time, my assumption would be that there's some issue with their server during the time, which, unfortunately, I can't do much about.

Thanks for the suggestion!

Currently the time rendering is performed server side. Unfortunately browsers don't send to the server their time, in a HTTP request. It may be possible to estimate by geolocation, but is potentially unreliable.

The only real way to get the user's time is via Javascript, which means that either the whole page be rendered in Javascript, or the page is rendered server side, then Javascript comes in and patches up the times.
I don't really like rendering the whole page in Javascript, as it means the site won't work without it.
The second idea is probably the best. It could have a slight issue in that times would be wrong whilst the page is loading, only to be fixed once it finishes and Javascript kicks in, but probably not so much of an issue with the fast internet connections available today. I believe Nyaa is using this technique.

The Javascript patching approach is what I'd like to do, but this requires shifting the time renderer partially to the client, which is a bit of work for a codebase I don't want to change too much.
The current workaround is to register an account and set the timezone there. If that offends you, perhaps I could add a timezone selector to the side - would require some manual intervention, but will stick as long as you don't clear cookies (or switch timezones frequently).

You think the way nyaa.si implemented it is dumb? Why?

It's not based on IP so VPN's aren't a factor, you gotta disable the time stuff for your browser.

https://browserleaks.com/javascript

I think admin here is too smart to do anything as dumb as what you are suggesting.

I wonder how many users are dumb enough nowadays to us a naked connection like that.  Knowing the timezone of my vpn isn't of much use.

Websites like time.is and browserleaks.com can see what timezone the visitor is in. nyaa.si does the exact thing, shows the time a torrent is posted that matches the users time.

If the admin thinks this to much work and not worth it I can understand, it's not a huge deal but it's definitely something websites can do.

pre-filters are a thing now, so yes they can be instantly deleted.

It's impossible to delete within seconds of uploading.

it looks like downloads before and after that time-mark are normal.  I expect the shows you were interested in were removed for dmca.  There is no fix.

Admin, can you fix downloadGG? Looks like everything that was just uploaded doesn't have a file. Or downloadGG's own error?

I don't know much a bout I2P, but maybe it could be used as a search engine.

There was an anime ddl site that started publishing a real-time listing of the city and country of anyone who visited their site.  That site and its traffic died quickly, thankfully.  What were they trying to accomplish?  No idea, there are always a few crazy/stupid people around.

then explain how you think it should be accomplished.

That's nice, it shouldn't be needed though.

Thanks for reporting - can anyone else confirm the same?
I suspect that may happen if you're getting sent bad data, e.g. a modem/router/gateway page saying that the connection couldn't go through. I'm guessing it just randomly happens, so could be hard to diagnose.

weird message on page reload, assume it's nothing but just to mention it.  I've had other slow page reloads lately:

"Secure Connection Failed

An error occurred during a connection to animetosho.torrentbay.st. SSL received a record that exceeded the maximum permissible length.

Error code: SSL_ERROR_RX_RECORD_TOO_LONG"

mouse-hover challenge: "have you seen our pile of dead links?"

There is a timezone setting in Member Registration.

The timestamps for torrents and "Current Time" does not match my current timezone, it would be nice if they did.

Just seasons would be amazing I suggest to also be able to search them by using special words in the search, something like "$anidb=x $season=y text" to limit the text you wanna search(which will probably be the quality and the episode number) would be a great help.

It was deleted by the uploader.

Hello. What happened to this release ? Can it be downloaded somehow ? All links dead (seems removed by user) and torrent isn't working. I'm using deluge and I don't know does the last tracker work and I don't know how to add it manually. Thanks in advance for any advice!
https://animetosho.torrentbay.st/view/hr-sekai-s...p.n1253480

seems like the site isn't updating new releases

Thanks for the suggestion.
Unfortunately the *znab APIs don't support AniDB, though you might be able to do something with the filters available here (e.g. visit a series page, copy the RSS2 URL and replace 'rss2' with 'api').

I don't know how reliable TVDB is; I'll have to see what can be done with filtering by it (needs to be integrated into the index for it to work).
Update: I can probably do the season part, but not episode mapping, as that's rather complex. Obviously batches will be very problematic as well.

Since you already have every item categorised by anidbid/tvdbid/the other ids, season and episode have you considered letting us use those variables when searching?' It would be amazing for automation(specially if you made available in the torznab api the tvsearch with tvdbid, season and episode capabilities)

and 431 GB

Beside the fact it is listed as RAW (AnimeTosho doesn't fetch RAWS) it is also over 4 years old and AT only fetches new releases.
It is also over 430 GB and the normal limit here is 16 GB.

Can you publish https://nyaa.si/view/935551
please? thanks!

spam

I know what you mean but having video files just opening like that would just annoy me. I'm not a woman so basically I prefer to do one thing at a time and give that one thing my full concentration.

tits or gtfo

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What about choosing to 'Open' the file instead of 'Saving' it (or choosing to open on completion), so that the video automatically starts playing once it finishes downloading?
Will definitely interrupt whatever browsing that you happen to be doing at the time.

Is this a feature request?

Unfortunately it's hard to get accurate seeder/leecher counts as a mirror. Torrent indexers have it relatively easy because they run their own tracker, but for a mirror, stats have to continually be scraped (and you generally want to limit the frequency of such to avoid getting banned).
You'll probably have to stick with the source sites if that info is important to you.

I agree, but one small banner ad along the top of a small chan would be an acceptable trade off if it helped make it happen

Discord is ok, but I think OP has spotted an opening for like a 5 or 10 minute browse, basically the length of time it takes the average visitor here to DL his shiows, assuming he has decent internet speeds.

I could open up 4chan or MAL something, but who is gonna watch my anime if I'm browsing shitposts all day? One pagefull of threads of anime autistisimo kinda seems like a fun idea that would still allow time for the actual anime to be watched.

a little one page image board here would be so cool

Have you tried the AT Discord?  Link under the login.

never touch income like from banner ads unless you want to kill a project.

That's basically a one page chan? Toshochan!

- I propose han experiment - a basic one page animetosho image board, threads fall into oblivion after they reach the bottom of the page, no real need for moderation, A comfy 10 min browse / banter whilst waiting on DLs. banner ads along the top - could be a good earner

Needn't be on the animetosho.torrentbay.st address either, the page could be hosted on an seperate address, with a link to it from here. Meaning the experiment could be easily dropped if it was too much hassle or problematic