isoHunt Now Indexes 1 Million Torrents
The popular BitTorrent site IsoHunt just reached a new milestone, as they now index over 1 million torrents. In total, the torrents on IsoHunt point to 22 million files that all add up to a dazzling 743TB in data.
isoHunt has been around for ages, longer than almost any other BitTorrent site in existence today, and they are still moving forward. Last month they released a new Ajaxy comment and rating system, and today they reached another milestone.
IsoHunt founder Gary Fung writes in their forums: “It has been a long time coming, but with steady growth of active torrents from around the Web (which I’ll call the Torrentsphere from now on if you don’t mind), isoHunt’s index reached the 1 million torrents milestone 2 hours ago.”
Like most other BitTorrent sites, isoHunt’s traffic is not slowing down at all. The site is currently among the 150 most visited websites on the Internet, and listed in the top three most used BitTorrent sites together with The Pirate Bay and Mininova. The increasing popularity also has its downsides though, in this case downtime because the servers can’t keep up.
The record traffic, in combination with the new features, have caused server issues over the past few weeks, and they had to display a “iSohunt is Sick” error message more often than they wanted to. “It’ll be back to normal soon enough,” Gary says, adding “You should seldom see them now that we got most congestion issues solved.”
IsoHunt had a small backlash last year when the isoHunt team had to block access to all US visitors on their TorrentBox and Podtropolis tracker, because of their involvement in a lawsuit initiated by the MPAA. Other than that, things are going great for them.
The increase in BitTorrent’s popularity is far from over yet. The numbers speak for itself, isoHunt indexing a million torrents, The Pirate Bay tracking 10 million peers, and Mininova just had its 4 billionth download.
Good times for the “torrentsphere”.
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Still think Thepiratebay kicks ass……..
good on ‘em, keep it going guys.
Nice one IsoHunt. Wish them all the best. Great site!
kool nice site:-)
Many torrent indexes have over one million torrents, this is like praising the slow kid at school for passing the finish line. Not very nice of you torrentfreak!
Respek to ol ma peeps at isohunt!
TPB ftw they doesnt bend over for MAFIAA like mininiva/isohunt/torrentspy/torrentz do!!
LONG LIVE THEPIRATEBAY!!
[quote comment="302830"]PS! A little mistake, Ernesto.
“The increase in BitTorrent’s popularity is far from over yet. The numbers speak for itself, isoHunt indexing a million torrents, The Pirate Bay tracking 10 million torrents, and Mininova just had its 4 billionth download.”
Thepiratebay don’t track 10 million torrents, they track 10 million peers. “A little” difference, there :3[/quote]
Thanks, fixed!
[quote comment="302925"]TPB ftw they doesnt bend over for MAFIAA like mininiva/isohunt/torrentspy/torrentz do!!
LONG LIVE THEPIRATEBAY!![/quote]
hurray!
Conforming to DMCA isnt bending over its a tactical move. If the person who legaly owns a peice of intelectual property requests its removal (which actualy isnt a very easy thing to achieve on any site), then it is better to remove it and placate them on that one particular release. It would be beyond the scope of most legal establishments to request the removal of all peices of intelectual property, so if you think that by removing 1 thing, you are somehow harming bittorrent, you clearly dont understand the process. I might add that the pirate bay is only 1 site of the 392 sites indexed by isohunt The pirate bays figure of 10 million peers is an optomistic one, those are not ‘unique’ peers, only a cumulative count. Isohunt tracks a peer count of 16.6 million across nearly 60,000 trackers and last I checked TPB’s total count of unique torrents at isohunt was 8% of the total. That is, only 8% of TPB’s torrents were unique to TBP at the time of indexing, the other 92% of torrents on their site were indexed from somewhere else. At the last round of bot activity, 180 new torrents were seen at TPB compared to 1614 from Mininova.
Nice news! I hope to see more torrent trackers too.
And SUMOTorrent.com has reached more than 50 millions downloads and 900 000 torrents indexed too !
[quote comment="302843"]Also slight mistake in the title
“the torrents on IsoHunt point to 22 million files files that all add up to a dazzling 743TB in data.”[/quote]
Probably not a mistake. It is simply 22 files per torrent on average.
As for index sites in general. They do provide a purpose (searchability), but mostly I would say that they are the leechers of the torrent world,that make the experience less personal and reduce contact with the actual source of the torrent.
Comments gets spread out over multiple index sites instead of being centralized on a single spot where the torrent is originally posted. People who download the torrents don’t know who the original poster is and don’t give a shit.
The will to seed back what you leech is also reduced as the whole thing becomes impersonal.
This is bad for torrent communities in general. It also makes it problematic for bands and other original content posters that would love for you to visit their site and donate, or atleast read the description that they provided with the original torrent as well as post comments/thanks.
Sure, you can include extra readme/nfo files with the torrent itself, but who actually read those files. Not most people I guess. I surely don’t.
Personally, I think everything would be much better if index sites linked back to the original site like search engines does.
1 million torrents on ISOHUNT
50% have no seeds
25% Fakes
ISOHUNT really is a crappy site.
[quote comment="303012"]1 million torrents on ISOHUNT
50% have no seeds
25% Fakes
ISOHUNT really is a crappy site.[/quote]
Get your facts right. For arguments sake, if your made up figures were even close to being correct, it would mean 50% of the torrents from 392 sites were unseeded, and 25% of the files on those 392 sites are fake. that means your saing that 50%/25% of the files from Mininova, TPB, and TorrentPortal (the 3 largest indexed sites), are unseeded, and or fake. I fail to see how that is isohunts problem. Do you even know the meaning of the work ‘indexed’?
IsoHunt FTMW!
I am not a big fan of index websites or websites using crawlers.
for example i recently went over to btjunkie to check out my torrent with around 800 seeders and to my shock i found a total of 8 other copies of my torrent. (all with different size etc)
Torrent websites that actualy host the torrents themselves are more likely to be moderated. (mininova, TPB)
My favorite: TPB and second mininova.
[quote comment="303004"][quote comment="302843"] {snipped}
Personally, I think everything would be much better if index sites linked back to the original site like search engines does.[/quote]
Dude, Isohunt DOES like back to the original laction of the torrent / the page is was indexed from. Quite clearly underneath the “download Torrent” button.
The added comments system helps people who are to comment on the torrents indexed… helping Noobs, Fuckwits and people who just dont want to search the web with info-hash codes looking for clues.
[quote comment="303033"]I am not a big fan of index websites or websites using crawlers.
for example i recently went over to btjunkie to check out my torrent with around 800 seeders and to my shock i found a total of 8 other copies of my torrent. (all with different size etc)
Torrent websites that actualy host the torrents themselves are more likely to be moderated. (mininova, TPB)
My favorite: TPB and second mininova.[/quote]
Basically, you’re saying you found 8 different torrents… >_<
Thanks for the article, it was great!
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Once again I say
ISOHUNT garbage
50% no seeds
25% Fakes
TPB,MININOVA,SUMO,REACTOR,ALL CRAP-
PUBLIC TRACKERS ARE COMPLETE TRASH..
If everyone is so enthused over ISOHUNT, I think these people should download APPZ from there….ISOHUNT is so disorganized…People who download torrents from public trackers are the ones who got banned from private sites. Also people think its so hard to join good sites,rubbish I say most sites offer the DONATE YOU IN THE GATE option…Donate to a good site and piss on these public trackers…
Hey just because you’re too retarded to download from a public tracker without getting a fake doesnt mean everyone else is. And why the fuck should I donate to gain access to site filled with elitist fucktards when I can get anything they have on a public site 20 minutes to an hour after pre? Might take a bit longer to download but I’d rather wait than feed some idiots ego.
isohunt sucks , TPB has way better search results
I second the ISOhunt sucks…
TPB FTW!!
Plus 1 million torrents? Btjunkie has 1.8 million and is much better and more advanced IMO
Hahahaha! I love how every article about a tracker causes us to argue which trackers are good and which ones suck.
Good times!
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