Great feature, faggots.

At the risk of sounding like an advertisement, I just wanted to say thanks for providing a good indexing site – when I can’t find what I want on my usual private sites, you’ve been an absolute godsend.

The clean look of the thing compared to most sites is an immense relief on the eyes. I’d be happier if more users left comments, but I suppose not everyone likes the sound of their own keyboards as much as I do.

Three things I would like to see if you’re inclined to do them: I’d like the site to remember my filtering policy from one day to the next and not reset itself every single time, which is the only proper annoyance in an otherwise excellent resource (I keep forgetting because I’m so used to sites not doing that); I’d like a longer search-line if possible (when I’m filtering through lots of results it can run out pretty quickly); and I’d like to see things like formats (if you can possibly get away with it) and archive-status (RAR’d or not?) added to the list of toggles.

Anyway, thanks very much for a very good site. I’m much obliged to you.
:D

There’s some heated discussion in here. I will try to answer some of the questions raised.

1) Fakes – the reason we index them is to be able to analyze and report them (and export via our APIs for other people to use). So far we were able to compile quite a list of fake torrent signs and we constantly add new parameters to it. As far as I know, we’re the only site doing that.

Normally you would not see fakes (filtered by default), you would have to enable display of fake torrents.

Also everyone can press “Fake” button to add a vote against the torrent, which will eventually flag it “Fake” – no registration/anything required. Results are also exported in APIs.

Of course there’re no 100% guarantees – fakers learn, they change the way they post torrents, from time to time they hack “trusted” accounts on sites like TPB – and our robots might index their “trusted” torrents. We try to monitor such cases, but with our amounts of data indexed daily you could not possibly do this for every torrent without tens of people doing just that every day.

2) Guys from http://imtdb.kicks-ass.org – happy that you find our data useful. :) If you need new APIs/formats – just drop a note.

3) Advertising and being imagined as a bunch of greedy bastards:

Well, we would really like for Bitsnoop to make at least $10000 monthly as someone suggested.

But things start to get quite expensive when you become popular(ish) – servers cost money, bandwidth costs money, work costs money. Not mentioning that you cannot host P2P-related site with your usual cheap big hosting provider – it would get knocked down in a couple of hours. Not mentioning that there’re LOTS of people constantly trying to DoS or DDoS our site, probe servers for vulnerabilities etc.

There’re some rather complex things developed for Bitsnoop (especially in indexers department) – maintaining them costs money, as you cannot get good Java/PHP/Unix developers to help you voluntarily all of the time.

Short version: no one here is having fancy sport cars or private jets. We can cover most of the bills with ad revenue and buy some beer, but that’s it guys.

We have a strict DMCA compliance policy (http://bitsnoop.com/info/dmca.html) and C&D requests are processed in the matter of hours.

We try to give back to P2P community – almost all of the data we collect and analyze is available via API interfaces, free-for-all, no strings attached: http://bitsnoop.com/info/api.html

You can basically build your own fully-functional torrent site using only this data (and several people did this so as far as I know).

P.S. We would gladly help promote any artist’s works completely free of charge (given that his works are of reasonable quality and he is not affiliated with RIAA/IFPI/etc).