@john32123666 We shouldn't confuse upscaling with re-encoding. Upscaling, when done properly, is a skill and it takes a lot of time, effort and money (the software is not cheap) to properly restore and upscale a low-res video On there other hand there are users ,who appear to have little or no knowledge of digital compression, who are running very recent H.264 encoded videos through a free program they downloaded from the net and re-encoding them with a H.265 codec, often at a different resolution, bitrate, frame rate, colour space.... The resulting videos are of a much lower quality, as anything encoded with two different lossy codecs will always be. Obviously if you're watching in poor light, on a phone screen covered in fingerprints you won't notice much difference, and I was told off recently for being old fashioned because "everyone watches porn on their phones nowadays", so maybe I'm just out of touch. My worry is that the original quality torrents are dying while these substandard versions are flourishing and that's frustrating

@dretafari Technically, a site only needs 1 site administrator to keep the site going. One person is sufficient to pay the bills and provide ongoing server maintenance. The moderation of torrents and the forums probably requires multiple volunteers (and all of their work is much appreciated!). However, I don't think those volunteer moderators would have root access to the server to provide business continuity. In any case, I also hope that this site stays online for many years to come . I am relatively new to GTRU (but not to gay torrenting!), and I can't believe it took this many years to find this awesome place.

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@zecadarua The download button did work for you, but there is only 1 seeder. I did a reseed request for you. Also, please read the site rules. We do not allow requests anywhere on the site.

@justanedflan When I first saw this, I thought that made sense, but then have thought about it a bit and respectfully disagree. That would be "rewarding" the most popular, hence easiest to get, torrents. The ones that I want to reward are the seeders that upload harder to find items. That gives the community the widest variety of choices, not just the most popular.

@drekkin said in Why do new upscaled posts immediately get hit with a 1-star rating?: ut I suppose it's a case of someone reading somewhere that HEVC is the next greatest thing and them deciding that everything ever made needs to be re-encoded with this amazing new technology. That's pretty much what's happening and the reason is simple, it's double the efficiency of H264, meaning you require half the bitrate to get the same image quality. The issue is that people are taking lossy copies and compressing them even further, like you said yourself. Regardless of how much your HD can store or how fast your internet is, compression will always make itself more and more important through time as the demand for content it's availability grows out of control and even H265 is getting outdated nowadays. But encoding, just like AI upscaling, is designed to have a range of scenarios where it'll perform well and everything else have to be taken as is. This is precisely why it's more important to preserve the source material. But there are cases like mentioned by another user, where the source material is long gone and you're left with digital "enhanced" versions from 30 years ago... In this case using todays AI is much more a case of restoration than enhancement, I'd say.

@eobox91103 said in Catch 22 - Humongous Torrents: @LordNemesis One big problem with huge torrents is that if they have content from a studio that is aggressive--and rapid--with takedown requests, it's possible that nobody will get even one completed file, even if s/he has only selected a few files from those available. The uploader thus gets seed credit, but downloaders can be left with nothing usable. I agree that some forced moderation here could be appropriate. I share your dislike of unintelligible file names with no thumbnailing. This is inexcusable given the ease of solving this problem: I have a utility called "AMT Auto Movie Thumbnailer" (freeware available at https://funk.eu/amt/ ) that will make bulk thumbnail mosaics from a whole directory of videos--one can give it a whole folder of video files and it will produce a preview image for each one. These can be included in their own directory in a torrent so that downloaders can decide which--if any--video files they want to download. So, for 1 there are 2 options in your torrent client that can help with HUGE torrents: the ability to download only a few files... select a few, download them, then select more! (the selection is interactive - you can add/remove files from your selection at any time!) most torrent clients have a switch to force (attempt) downloading in sequential order... even though this is a "violation" of the torrent concept, it's there (it's just changing which blocks you request when from "random" to "sequential"). There is no guarantee how this works on your client, and it's dependent on those "sequential" blocks actually being available. Finally, as for the "random" filenames on OF content - blame OF for that, not gaytor.rent... that's the way they come from OF, and IMHO, I'd rather folks left the filenames alone so it's easier to find dupes! I agree that a set of thumbnails might be nice - and, honestly, I seldom download OF content because most of it is shot on a phone and is less than a minute or 2 (or 5) in length... I wouldn't even keep videos of my own BF that were so short and worthless!