The upload order should be considered to be somewhat random. The only hard rule is that batches have lower priority.

A human knows, but this site runs on automation. Someone could create a list of rules, but it'd need to be maintained, and that's not something I'm willing to do.

I mean, for Erai, you know that if the title says "HEVC", it'll go in the mini-encode category, and if not, in the "rip" one.

As for other groups, you know what kind of stuff they produce so I don't think it'd be undoable here with a "gray" area for stuff released without a tag name or that doesn't fit the categories you set ^^"

I think they're mirroring from smallest to biggest files, like if you got 5 files at the same time : 500MB, 600MB, 70MB, 1GB, and finally 150MB.
They'll go 70MB, 150MB, 500MB, 600MB and then the 1GB one.

And I believe that Erai and Subsplease have priority also...

Nyaa provides markings for remakes, and there's a filter option to hide them. Other sources don't supply this information, so nothing much can be done for those unfortunately.

Erai releases HEVC encodes also (touched) stuff. I don't think another "color" etc is really needed, the noobs to this site will figure it out on their own.

I thought it was more of a who uploads first.  If [Erai-raws] and [SubsPlease] upload before [NeoLX] or [EMBER] then it will be mirrored here in that order. Am I wrong?
I only download from a handful of uploaders unless I'm looking for something old school like from [Orphan] or [Inka-Subs]

People are not all aware of every specifications of each group... there are new people joining and not all are Nyaa addicts lol

I think people already know what they are downloading.

The only cooking I did was my lunch, no worries admin, they're just the toxic people of Nyaa that moved from there and arrived on AnimeTosho thinking it's the same mentality here... :/

A second thing, but wouldn't it be possible to filter the type of release ?

Some groups like NanDesuKa, Varyg, Erai, Subsplease and Toonhub always upload rips (untouched) stuff.
Other groups like Ember, ASW, Judas, DKB.. always upload mini-encodes.

A categorization would be a nice feat, or a "color" based view on the main page for each type of release (to each their color)?

Thank you Admin! :D

I dunno... I wouldn't brag about someone getting 'cooked' unless I wanted to inflate my own ego at the expense of others...

Thanks for the feedback admin!

NeoLX just got cooked by his own comment.
They also say that being carried by ones own ego will be your downfall.

Thanks for the suggestion. There's already a minor bias towards popular torrents in the queuing strategy.

Using your examples and looking at the last 500 non-batch uploads, NeoLX is about 0.3% of the upload volume. Other "small brands" have similar insignificant footprints, so even skipping them entirely would have virtually no impact on processing.
As for what's "unimportant", that's subjective and not something I intend to make a judgement on.

I collated some stats a few months ago, if you're interested in what a weekend volume looks like.

Thanks for the suggestion.

The audio extract should have a minimal impact on the uploading process, due to the files being much smaller and fewer hosts being uploaded to.
It's not really a 'step' in the uploading process, rather, it's a completely independent process in itself. Due to the above, it'll typically complete before the main upload completes.

However, I've tuned it a bit more to lower its priority further. I don't expect this to have much impact, but it might help with the confusion around audio appearing to have priority.

I personally don't consider SP to be an important brand. It should remain first come first served.
If you can't wait a little longer you have a personal problem.

They say that it's when you have haters that success reaches you.
Keep up the good work my minions!

Agreed