Asenshi's LWA is also an original TL. =) As well as SallySubs Attack on Titan 2 and Chihiro's SukaSuka. Most of the rest is all Crunchyroll/FUNimation/Amazon/AnimeLab/Daisuki edits.
Nyaa's Trusted-status was pretty much useless though because they didn't use it the way you're suggesting to signify standards or trust. It was used simply as another form of bias to give to certain people and deny to others regardless of merit.
For example, some of the green-label trusted groups just stole from the non-trusted white-label groups and claimed the subtitles as their own. *points at Hatsuyuki stealing from various groups* I actually brought this up about a couple releases I knew they had stolen, and people in the channel started making a huge list, apparently it had been an ongoing issue with the group for years and nothing was ever done about it.
While other groups were denied green-status for BS reasoning that didn't apply to the groups that had it. Like for instance, I was told having a single 8-bit torrent uploaded would disqualify you, yet plenty of green-label groups uploaded 8-bit encodes like HorribleSubs and Cornbreadman for instance.
Anyways point being is that, green-label didn't actually signify anything in regards to being trust-worthy or quality of the release, and often the better releases were white-labeled or even orange/red-labeled due to the way Nyaa's rules were setup.
It's not useless when you got several people uploading the same show while some are clearly better in translation quality and have more effort put into it than others.
As stated, outside of mostly airing seasonal shows, it becomes a gamble in terms of quality, which wouldn't be an issue if the feature was implemented. Outside of horriblesubs, since all they have are rips of simulcasted shows, there aren't groups I'm familiar with handling every other series and most of the time, the ones I find are just one time groups/person just translating for that 1 thing.
Even if you're anti-nyaa or call it biased, it was more reliable than using a random users first attempt at poorly solo translating something. If someone wants to watch low quality translations, then let them, but let those who want to watch decent ones at least do so without having to dig through several unknown translators.
The things like "Trusted/A+" release is just useless, I still don't get why Nyaa applied that shit in the first place and it was incredibly biased. There's a ton of shitty releases with "trusted" status there.
My suggestion is, if you see a group that you familiar of, just assume it was good release for you.
Is there any way to distinguish quality/reliable torrents? As in something similar to nyaa's 'trusted' feature.
Aside from all the obvious Horriblesub stuff, even if not everyone agrees, I can at least reliably watch but when it comes to stuff outside of airing seasonal, I've had to take several gambles with random torrents for things like OVAs, specials and other shows not being simulcasted.
Actually, I appreciate many of these efforts. There would be no sense in ignoring a base script and translating from scratch. DDY's Flying Witch and Maid Dragon I think of as examples of making something better.
And we get an OP and ED translation, which I also appreciate.
Don't forget they also heavily advertised the use of magnet links in-between Nyaa going offline and Nyaa.si being used, and they still link magnets on their sites. So there is a good chance that a lot of their downloads aren't being counted on Nyaa.si because of it. That and like one of the other 'Anonymous' mentioned, Old-Nyaa didn't count actual downloads, it counted each time the 'download' torrent link was clicked. So it could easily been inflated and by no means was an indicator of actual downloads made via the torrent itself.
This would be better suited to be asked on our IRC channel, blog, or forum tbh... Even if I do check here. Anyways currently we don't have any plans for it, but it could happen, so I won't say it's a definite no.
Changed for what reason? Do you think anyone would edit and re-post with Horrible's name trying to improve something without taking credit for their efforts?
Or are you worried about malicious changes trying to harm Horrible's brand?
I've never heard of either happening. Those who do a "CR-Mod" (Cruncyroll-modified, editing to improve Horrible) always take credit for their efforts and give it their own brand name.
CRC, btw, is easy to fake and no protection against fraud. It's only a check on garbled transmission, and the torrent hash already provides a check on that. You'd need a more substantial file hash check to detect fraud.
You seem to be very concerned about getting 'authentic' (from named source) files. But I haven't seen any fake Horribles or fake GJM or fake Commie or fake FFF or fake anything else, so I don't understand your concern.
CRC matches from where? Most release don't contain any CRC hash in the filename. And unlike scene, fansubs don't include .sfv/.nfo file in the torrent.
- Show on the download page (not the file list) whether the CRC matches. - Create a trusted flag where you compare the torrent uploader with the group in the filename. Maybe also a trusted+ page for well established groups. - Create a second rss feed for stuff after it is done uploading to all hosts and shows download links to multiple files.
Awesome :) Many thanks for fixing. Also seems like AniDex has added a few more categories now - don't know if the scraping needs some modifying: http://puu.sh/vQwtB/4b218cefd1.png
I never knew that "Gimme more catgirls" link was to the forums. Just clicked on it today after a few years of using this website. Always thought it was odd I didn't find a forum here. Only to find its disguised lol.
Always wanted to express gratitude and say "Thank You" for keeping this amazing anime website running and in the pure format that its in. No bullsh*t. Just the right amount of anime to cause your eyes to bleed from never ending days of no sleep from bingeing.
Also really appreciate the multiple file host site links....great for multi-file host members.
16/05/2017 06:35 — Anonymous