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> I honestly don't think it's a big ask to have Nyaa update the "temporarily unavailable" message to something more accurate.
Has annoyed me for years, I really hope they do open registration again too someday.
> such as when they decided to block proxies
I don't know what proxies are blocked, they just use ddos-guard, but I do just run a script that rotates proxies to access it, I get some 429 from ratelimit and 504/timeout when "blocked", but I don't know how that works. I don't have much trouble getting the torrents through public freely available proxies (including Tor), as long as circuit is rotated, but there are ratelimits.
> what I've seen from Nyaa indicate the owners have lost interest and is mostly just being kept on life support.
The actual mods they lost was many years ago, I think nyaa owners appreciate the value and need for the site, so of course they keep it going.
> But if you don't care about the community impact, closing registrations is just a much easier thing to do.
It does suck, I actually want an account on it, but can't get it. I do have access to an account, but it's not "mine" personally, but of course I can upload through it.
> What opsec reasons would prevent them from assigning new moderators?
I don't believe they've let in any new staff for many years. It's similar reasons let's say you're now leaving instead of passing down the torch to someone you trusted. And similar reasons why let's say the piracy scene itself (non-anime) has declined, because no newcomers, letting in new people means trusting them, trust is hard, it's easier to just keep things going with the people that are around, but you can't grow. Sometimes the torch is passed, but even then it's other older trusted members and then there are fewer.
> yet that didn't stop it from disappearing without warning mid 2017.
I don't know why he did what he did, but it was strange, he didn't tell anyone around him. Most people around him found it very strange and unusual. Personally, I hold the conspiracy theory that something or someone pressured him to close, not that he did it out of his own will. I don't know if this is true or not.
> leaving much of the community dependent on the whims of an uninterested (my view) owner is not a good place to be in, in my opinion
An archive of it is very important, and you provided that when original NT died. I worry now there won't be enough archivists in case the worst happens.
> Which is why I advocate for alternatives and think more people should as well.
They're useful, but if an alternative goes down, you still lose content, archiving everything is more important.
I'd also wish .si provided regular db dumps for this reason, but don't think they have in any recent years.
> but what do you think their end will be like?
I don't know man as I'm not them, I will instead say that people depend on some things I do and I cannot pass the torch, and if something happened to me, a good number of people will find themselves SoL, the bus factor is real. I don't know if that applies to .si, I hope they do have at least a few people with access to backups and ways to bring things back online as it's far too important to risk losing it. In general, I do have some trust that they'll do the right thing, but I can't know for sure, I suppose you have less trust than me. My trust is based on friend of a friend of a friend sort of reasons, and hoping that they'll do the right thing and contribute in the same way that I do, I can't do anything about the bus factor for me, but I hope that they at least have something for themselves.
Maybe you wanted more time or out of the responsibility too, but I wonder what actually will happen, will enough people run your code base to at least archive .si and other sites just in case? Your archiving of the original NT was very prudent and saved the community back then.
Has annoyed me for years, I really hope they do open registration again too someday.
> such as when they decided to block proxies
I don't know what proxies are blocked, they just use ddos-guard, but I do just run a script that rotates proxies to access it, I get some 429 from ratelimit and 504/timeout when "blocked", but I don't know how that works. I don't have much trouble getting the torrents through public freely available proxies (including Tor), as long as circuit is rotated, but there are ratelimits.
> what I've seen from Nyaa indicate the owners have lost interest and is mostly just being kept on life support.
The actual mods they lost was many years ago, I think nyaa owners appreciate the value and need for the site, so of course they keep it going.
> But if you don't care about the community impact, closing registrations is just a much easier thing to do.
It does suck, I actually want an account on it, but can't get it. I do have access to an account, but it's not "mine" personally, but of course I can upload through it.
> What opsec reasons would prevent them from assigning new moderators?
I don't believe they've let in any new staff for many years. It's similar reasons let's say you're now leaving instead of passing down the torch to someone you trusted. And similar reasons why let's say the piracy scene itself (non-anime) has declined, because no newcomers, letting in new people means trusting them, trust is hard, it's easier to just keep things going with the people that are around, but you can't grow. Sometimes the torch is passed, but even then it's other older trusted members and then there are fewer.
> yet that didn't stop it from disappearing without warning mid 2017.
I don't know why he did what he did, but it was strange, he didn't tell anyone around him. Most people around him found it very strange and unusual. Personally, I hold the conspiracy theory that something or someone pressured him to close, not that he did it out of his own will. I don't know if this is true or not.
> leaving much of the community dependent on the whims of an uninterested (my view) owner is not a good place to be in, in my opinion
An archive of it is very important, and you provided that when original NT died. I worry now there won't be enough archivists in case the worst happens.
> Which is why I advocate for alternatives and think more people should as well.
They're useful, but if an alternative goes down, you still lose content, archiving everything is more important.
I'd also wish .si provided regular db dumps for this reason, but don't think they have in any recent years.
> but what do you think their end will be like?
I don't know man as I'm not them, I will instead say that people depend on some things I do and I cannot pass the torch, and if something happened to me, a good number of people will find themselves SoL, the bus factor is real. I don't know if that applies to .si, I hope they do have at least a few people with access to backups and ways to bring things back online as it's far too important to risk losing it. In general, I do have some trust that they'll do the right thing, but I can't know for sure, I suppose you have less trust than me. My trust is based on friend of a friend of a friend sort of reasons, and hoping that they'll do the right thing and contribute in the same way that I do, I can't do anything about the bus factor for me, but I hope that they at least have something for themselves.
Maybe you wanted more time or out of the responsibility too, but I wonder what actually will happen, will enough people run your code base to at least archive .si and other sites just in case? Your archiving of the original NT was very prudent and saved the community back then.
I release everything under public domain, so feel free to do whatever you want with it.
But since you brought it up, I'll add notes to the readmes. Thanks for the suggestion.
But since you brought it up, I'll add notes to the readmes. Thanks for the suggestion.
Thanks for your insights - it's always good to hear other perspectives on things!
I honestly don't think it's a big ask to have Nyaa update the "temporarily unavailable" message to something more accurate. The exact same message has been present for many years now, and I've seen it confuse plenty of users who ask about when it's going to be available again, so it's not like everyone just understands the situation.
I'd find it very hard to believe if no-one ever asked them about it over the years, but if your observation of "take care of it as fast as an hour or sooner" is accurate, maybe you could ask them and see what happens?
Anyway, small things like these, combined with messaging they've put out (such as when they decided to block proxies) make me have doubts over how much they have the community's interests in mind. This is all speculation on my part, but as someone who's seen many sites come and go, as well as my own admin experience in a similar niche, what I've seen from Nyaa indicate the owners have lost interest and is mostly just being kept on life support.
Closing registrations to stop malware sounds sensible at first, but if that's the goal, there's potentially various other less disruptive solutions. For example, they could require a user's first upload be vetted/moderated, or maybe only do this for suspicious first uploads. nekoBT, for example, requires the user pass a test and approval on first upload. Now I'm not saying these alternatives necessarily work, but they seem like they could at least be trialed.
But if you don't care about the community impact, closing registrations is just a much easier thing to do.
In terms of impact, no registrations can be a large disincentive for newcommers. As mentioned, people come and go (like Nyaa's mods) in communities, and people are less likely to come if they can't upload to the index everyone uses. Sure, the more determined will beg for an account or for someone to post their torrent on Nyaa, but there'll be plenty of those that won't bother or know better and just give up.
The kicker is that the effects of this aren't that visible - it's a slow gradual unnoticeable decline that few will care much about.
Now Nyaa is free to run their site however they like. But I don't think it's healthy for the community long term to just accept this as the way forward.
But to your point, there's certainly different levels of "give a fuck". I over-simplified earlier, but whilst I think Nyaa.si's level is low (at least lower than I'd like), it's clearly not as low as Pantsu's.
I don't have as much trust as you do over Nyaa.si's convictions, but I do hope that I'm wrong here.
Whilst I do think they won't repeat what happened with NyaaTorrents, leaving much of the community dependent on the whims of an uninterested (my view) owner is not a good place to be in, in my opinion. Which is why I advocate for alternatives and think more people should as well.
Even if you think the Nyaa.si owners care, I still believe alternatives are beneficial for the community to have. In fact, it's arguably good for the owners too as they'll feel less burdened if they decide to move on.
Thanks again for your thoughtful post!
I honestly don't think it's a big ask to have Nyaa update the "temporarily unavailable" message to something more accurate. The exact same message has been present for many years now, and I've seen it confuse plenty of users who ask about when it's going to be available again, so it's not like everyone just understands the situation.
I'd find it very hard to believe if no-one ever asked them about it over the years, but if your observation of "take care of it as fast as an hour or sooner" is accurate, maybe you could ask them and see what happens?
Anyway, small things like these, combined with messaging they've put out (such as when they decided to block proxies) make me have doubts over how much they have the community's interests in mind. This is all speculation on my part, but as someone who's seen many sites come and go, as well as my own admin experience in a similar niche, what I've seen from Nyaa indicate the owners have lost interest and is mostly just being kept on life support.
Closing registrations to stop malware sounds sensible at first, but if that's the goal, there's potentially various other less disruptive solutions. For example, they could require a user's first upload be vetted/moderated, or maybe only do this for suspicious first uploads. nekoBT, for example, requires the user pass a test and approval on first upload. Now I'm not saying these alternatives necessarily work, but they seem like they could at least be trialed.
But if you don't care about the community impact, closing registrations is just a much easier thing to do.
In terms of impact, no registrations can be a large disincentive for newcommers. As mentioned, people come and go (like Nyaa's mods) in communities, and people are less likely to come if they can't upload to the index everyone uses. Sure, the more determined will beg for an account or for someone to post their torrent on Nyaa, but there'll be plenty of those that won't bother or know better and just give up.
The kicker is that the effects of this aren't that visible - it's a slow gradual unnoticeable decline that few will care much about.
Now Nyaa is free to run their site however they like. But I don't think it's healthy for the community long term to just accept this as the way forward.
You can understand that they cannot get new moderators as they no longer invite new staff to help them run the site and this is all due to the mentioned opsec reasons.
Actually, I don't really understand that. What opsec reasons would prevent them from assigning new moderators?remember that one day the nyaa pantsu owner actually let their nyaa clone lapse (domain, site).
To be fair, that site never really took off, so could've just been written off by the owner as a failed project.But to your point, there's certainly different levels of "give a fuck". I over-simplified earlier, but whilst I think Nyaa.si's level is low (at least lower than I'd like), it's clearly not as low as Pantsu's.
I do mostly trust that .si will keep running for as long as they can as they understand that their site is an important
I'm sure they they understand that, but understanding is not the same as caring. Case in point would be the original NyaaTorrents - I have no doubt that the owner was aware of the site's importance (given how much traffic it got), yet that didn't stop it from disappearing without warning mid 2017.I don't have as much trust as you do over Nyaa.si's convictions, but I do hope that I'm wrong here.
Whilst I do think they won't repeat what happened with NyaaTorrents, leaving much of the community dependent on the whims of an uninterested (my view) owner is not a good place to be in, in my opinion. Which is why I advocate for alternatives and think more people should as well.
Even if you think the Nyaa.si owners care, I still believe alternatives are beneficial for the community to have. In fact, it's arguably good for the owners too as they'll feel less burdened if they decide to move on.
I believe that they won't just one day quit to get "more time"
Nothing lasts forever, and Nyaa.si isn't special in this regard. They may not quit for the same reasons as myself, but what do you think their end will be like?Thanks again for your thoughtful post!
Consider providing a license for all source code repositories
<3
Thanks for all the years of efforts.
The site has been an amazing resource!
Thanks for all the years of efforts.
The site has been an amazing resource!
Anime Tosho Beta has graduated to Anime Tosho archive, thank you for the journey. This library is closing, thank you for visiting.
The attitudes of the admins on the forums there didn't give me the impression that they'd give out keys, so I never bothered asking.
I also made an effort to not disclose how I was obtaining AniDB data until recently, to avoid them shutting down the API.
I assume their fear is over competitors using their data, so my leaving the TCP client in an unworkable state hopefully doesn't worry them about keeping the API alive, but we'll have to see.
I also made an effort to not disclose how I was obtaining AniDB data until recently, to avoid them shutting down the API.
I assume their fear is over competitors using their data, so my leaving the TCP client in an unworkable state hopefully doesn't worry them about keeping the API alive, but we'll have to see.
Thank you for the answer, admin, and thank you for everything else. Take care.
wahhhhh im so sad thanks for Anime All Ep OVA the Movie Etc thank you so much Domo arigato !!! cheers Animetosho !!!! i was 15 years too i think i was download here too so long to download so many anime old new anime !!! not cry be strong i will find new webosite to download anime movie ova EP etc search again to download anime EP OVA The Movie etc more pore anime Fans anime otaku !!!! cheeers and Cheer up!!!!!!!
good quality for thermometer display, the color accuracy of these are very bad atleast get from animekai or hianime, to download on android use stargon browser to rip stream of hianime etc
If the admin thinks otherwise, he is a softy
Why don't you want to be a softy too?You'll likely have better luck asking that question on Discord.
Some users were asking for a Discord at the time, but it's not something I use myself. Someone offered and made a server, so I just put the link there.
Some users were asking for a Discord at the time, but it's not something I use myself. Someone offered and made a server, so I just put the link there.
Animetosho Goodbye and thank you very much, for you all.
Goodbye to Animetosho! Thank you so much for everything. I'll remember this site fondly.
Thank you Admin for all the years you've put into Anime Tosho. Truly a heroic effort on your part. Anime has helped my wife and I through some really hard times. Best wishes :)
Good night sweet prince! May you live on in some ways! (sources, clones, nzbs, archives and so on). You will not be forgotten.
Goodbye animetosho. Goodbye admin. You were a real nigga.
I've been putting off writing this since the shutdown was announced, and predictably it has taken me until the final hour.
I've known about AT since it was a mere few years old, but have only been coming here regularly since usenet uploads started. That still feels like only yesterday, but would appear to be 2/3 of the lifetime of this site. For most of those 10 years of nzbs, AT has been the sole public anime uploader, after the 2017 demise of poster 'Ishouni' and 2 others whose names I don't remember, all 3 of which sprang up after 'Comfun' stopped in ~2014.
AT's nzbs, together with those of uploaders of yesteryear, form an invaluable archive which will (hopefully) live on. Every time I grab an AT nzb from another source, I will remember this site, and your immense contribution and legacy.
A quick glance at your repositories makes abundantly clear (as if more clarity were needed) the sheer amount of effort you have put into running AT. I would like to especially thank you for ParPar, which I have been using in a personal project for 6 years.
Know that you have the gratitude of a great many anons, and take a well-deserved rest. All good things must come to an end; it is precisely that which allows us to appreciate them.
I would like at this point to invite other commenters to charge their glasses and join me in a toast: TO ANIME TOSHO! Cheers.
RIP AT, you never left beta.
I've known about AT since it was a mere few years old, but have only been coming here regularly since usenet uploads started. That still feels like only yesterday, but would appear to be 2/3 of the lifetime of this site. For most of those 10 years of nzbs, AT has been the sole public anime uploader, after the 2017 demise of poster 'Ishouni' and 2 others whose names I don't remember, all 3 of which sprang up after 'Comfun' stopped in ~2014.
AT's nzbs, together with those of uploaders of yesteryear, form an invaluable archive which will (hopefully) live on. Every time I grab an AT nzb from another source, I will remember this site, and your immense contribution and legacy.
A quick glance at your repositories makes abundantly clear (as if more clarity were needed) the sheer amount of effort you have put into running AT. I would like to especially thank you for ParPar, which I have been using in a personal project for 6 years.
Know that you have the gratitude of a great many anons, and take a well-deserved rest. All good things must come to an end; it is precisely that which allows us to appreciate them.
I would like at this point to invite other commenters to charge their glasses and join me in a toast: TO ANIME TOSHO! Cheers.
RIP AT, you never left beta.
Thank you for everything AnimeTosho staff, I will remember this site very fondly. I wish you the best!.
Although I've only known about this site for a few months, it has easily been one of the best sources for Anime torrents I can find. It was easy to find the series you wanted and had detailed information on most files. Thank you for providing an excellent service to the community. I wish you luck in whatever you do after this.
Thank you ADMIN for everything you have done from keeping the site up and running and free for as long as you have done words can't express how greatful I am to you for everything. I hope whatever you have planned for your next chapter in youre life is met with great success.
Hope you enjoy having more free time admin. Maybe you can watch more anime!
Thanks for running the site for all these years!
Thanks for running the site for all these years!
Thank you very much. Your contribution was immeasurable.
It was a good run, thanks for everything.
Using Nyaa-AnimeTosho Extender to add mediainfo and subtitle preview directly to Nyaa was incredibly useful and I will miss those after the site is gone.
Using Nyaa-AnimeTosho Extender to add mediainfo and subtitle preview directly to Nyaa was incredibly useful and I will miss those after the site is gone.
AniDB has 3 APIs: TCP/IP, UDP, http.
UDP is mostly for adding files to mylist and far less useful for a site like this.
http is the most complete, but so heavily ratelimited it's very easy to get banned, something like requesting the same page sooner than once in 2 days is likely to get you a ban, among other things.
tcp/ip api is a private API that only has been implemented in AoM, which is sorta unmaintained for years, but they still provide support for it. This API gets you full database dumps, in a sanitized form, some useful fields are missing that are present in http, mostly fields/tables that got added after AoM stopped being actively maintained.
the database dump provided by the tcp/ip one is the quickest, most efficient way, but anidb for some reason is deathly afraid of people scraping their data, in fact they started even using cloudflare that always challenges you in the past few weeks, making their site unusable for many.
since admin referenced the AoM client in his docs, I assume he just got the key and figured out the protocol by reverse engineering, which isn't that hard, but I didn't know of anyone besides me and I assume admin that got these values.
These dumps are useful to anyone needing to do large-scale lookups that would easily get banned by the http api, since it's basically an offline copy of the site. It's missing some things like character tables and newer metadata like additional site links for an anime or episode - I kind of want these, but there's no way to get it besides the http api, but AT never needed those extra links.
But I have no way of knowing, maybe admin just asked and they gave him the same API key instead of making him a new one? I will just assume he got the AoM key given the repository uses that id.
UDP is mostly for adding files to mylist and far less useful for a site like this.
http is the most complete, but so heavily ratelimited it's very easy to get banned, something like requesting the same page sooner than once in 2 days is likely to get you a ban, among other things.
tcp/ip api is a private API that only has been implemented in AoM, which is sorta unmaintained for years, but they still provide support for it. This API gets you full database dumps, in a sanitized form, some useful fields are missing that are present in http, mostly fields/tables that got added after AoM stopped being actively maintained.
the database dump provided by the tcp/ip one is the quickest, most efficient way, but anidb for some reason is deathly afraid of people scraping their data, in fact they started even using cloudflare that always challenges you in the past few weeks, making their site unusable for many.
since admin referenced the AoM client in his docs, I assume he just got the key and figured out the protocol by reverse engineering, which isn't that hard, but I didn't know of anyone besides me and I assume admin that got these values.
These dumps are useful to anyone needing to do large-scale lookups that would easily get banned by the http api, since it's basically an offline copy of the site. It's missing some things like character tables and newer metadata like additional site links for an anime or episode - I kind of want these, but there's no way to get it besides the http api, but AT never needed those extra links.
But I have no way of knowing, maybe admin just asked and they gave him the same API key instead of making him a new one? I will just assume he got the AoM key given the repository uses that id.
hey admin,
there are reasons to why nyaa is run the way it is. I'm not going to claim to know them, but I do think I have somewhat slightly more insight than you about this (no offense, I respect your work).
.si used to have a public/open channel, and something spooked them and they closed that public channel, you can still report any issues with the site and they do take care of it as fast as an hour or sooner from what I've seen. In fact .si's code was even on github, but as you probably know, there have been some attempts to stop nyaa's existence by you know who over the years.
the original closing most likely was no accident either, but we probably won't ever know.
The most likely reason for closed registrations is that they used to have some moderators which then mostly quit/started having a life, and nyaa used to be get a lot of malware when registration was open that the moderators had to spend a lot of time removing or watching for. They still get some malware through compromised accounts and this still gets deleted.
You can understand that they cannot get new moderators as they no longer invite new staff to help them run the site and this is all due to the mentioned opsec reasons.
And if you actually want to consider owners that don't give a fuck, remember that one day the nyaa pantsu owner actually let their nyaa clone lapse (domain, site).
I do mostly trust that .si will keep running for as long as they can as they understand that their site is an important backbone for most releasers and fansubbers. Registration or not, I do trust them on this, and I believe that they won't just one day quit to get "more time" (no offense again), they know that it is a very important site for many of us.
I do believe they should open registrations as people really want to post there, even if sometimes people can get an account if they ask privately.
I also believe people should mirror nyaa like you do.
there are reasons to why nyaa is run the way it is. I'm not going to claim to know them, but I do think I have somewhat slightly more insight than you about this (no offense, I respect your work).
.si used to have a public/open channel, and something spooked them and they closed that public channel, you can still report any issues with the site and they do take care of it as fast as an hour or sooner from what I've seen. In fact .si's code was even on github, but as you probably know, there have been some attempts to stop nyaa's existence by you know who over the years.
the original closing most likely was no accident either, but we probably won't ever know.
The most likely reason for closed registrations is that they used to have some moderators which then mostly quit/started having a life, and nyaa used to be get a lot of malware when registration was open that the moderators had to spend a lot of time removing or watching for. They still get some malware through compromised accounts and this still gets deleted.
You can understand that they cannot get new moderators as they no longer invite new staff to help them run the site and this is all due to the mentioned opsec reasons.
And if you actually want to consider owners that don't give a fuck, remember that one day the nyaa pantsu owner actually let their nyaa clone lapse (domain, site).
I do mostly trust that .si will keep running for as long as they can as they understand that their site is an important backbone for most releasers and fansubbers. Registration or not, I do trust them on this, and I believe that they won't just one day quit to get "more time" (no offense again), they know that it is a very important site for many of us.
I do believe they should open registrations as people really want to post there, even if sometimes people can get an account if they ask privately.
I also believe people should mirror nyaa like you do.
https://aninzb.moe/ is down. Let's hope it comes back.
Thank you for all your years of dedication in developing Anime Tosho for all these years, also a big thanks to all the contributors that have helped out our beloved @Admin.
Know that it is with a heavy hard I see one of my favorite go-to sites for anime content is closing its doors after all these years, however as others have stated in this thread in various variations that you have kept going for this long shows dedication and commitment that is rare even for us "old folks" that where there when BBS boards was "The thing".
Sir (or madam) Admin and Sir's/ Madams that have contributed, I salute you all and I wish you all the best in your "retirement" and future projects whatever they may be!
Again, Thank your time and committed over the years, you will be missed
-M
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Know that it is with a heavy hard I see one of my favorite go-to sites for anime content is closing its doors after all these years, however as others have stated in this thread in various variations that you have kept going for this long shows dedication and commitment that is rare even for us "old folks" that where there when BBS boards was "The thing".
Sir (or madam) Admin and Sir's/ Madams that have contributed, I salute you all and I wish you all the best in your "retirement" and future projects whatever they may be!
Again, Thank your time and committed over the years, you will be missed
-M
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Time to move on. Walking forward, remembering fondly.
Thank you AT staff. Best wishes.
Thank you AT staff. Best wishes.
This is better
https://hi10anime.com/
https://hi10anime.com/
Not really an exact replica, but if anyone wants mini encode try this site = https://animepahe.pw/
(It may sometimes changes its domain , but the name is always the same)
(It may sometimes changes its domain , but the name is always the same)
Wait a second. I just realized the site has "BETA" under the name. Should AT not graduate before being shutdown?
Note, that's just removing the BETA text unless this is like the second site carrying the animetosho name.
Note, that's just removing the BETA text unless this is like the second site carrying the animetosho name.
If you think it is, why do you need to know why others want more?
Thanks so much for keeping this site running for all these years!
Why isn't Nyaa a good alternative for Anime Tosho?
Why isn't Nyaa a good alternative for Anime Tosho?
Thats a good start. Hopefully more to be added in the future. One of the great strengths of AT is the choice to maintain a wide range of ddl sites that enable access to be maximized despite country and regional problems and blocks.
is there any way i could get 2B or Trix's insta 😺😳
Anime Tosho NEW plans to add BuzzHeavier and GoFile as DDL.
09/05/2026 07:09 — Anonymous: "Anon-KH"