Truncated Search Results
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First off, I want to say I really appreciate the work that went into the redesign. I think it looks really good and the site was due for a bit of a UI tweak, and this looks pretty great. I'm still trying to get used to the changes myself, but I think this is a pretty good move forward overall.
I apologize if this has been brought up already, I tried searching but didn't see this mentioned and wanted to just make a quick thread about it.
One of the things that I really liked about the "old design" was that during a search, you could go back further and further and further all the way to the beginning of time. This was pretty great for people like me who spend way too much time on the site and just want to find something I may not have seen before, which could have been buried from years ago. Sometimes I would go back 20 or 30 pages and find something very random that I hadn't seen before.
Unfortunately, this looks to not be the case with the redesign. Unless there is a setting somewhere I have missed (which could be entirely possible). My best example of this is using the search word 'sexy'.
If you use 'sexy' as the search word and search by newest first, and go to the last page (of which there are 2 pages for me), the last posted torrent was created Jan 13, 2026. If you search by oldest first and look at the first result, the added torrent date is Aug 30, 2007 and if you go to the last result in this search (which would be the latest added (newest)) it shows Dec 10, 2013 (not even the oldest one that was shown in the first, NEWEST, search), and this search shows there is only 39 results in total. Now, if you sort by most seeders and look at the first result, you get one that was added on Dec 17, 2025 (which doesn't show in either of the first 2 searches at all). If you sort by Relevance the first one listed is Sep 30, 2015 (which still also doesn't show in the first 2 searches).
I think my main concern here is that one of (what I consider) this sites great strengths is that it has a vast repository of older content that not everyone has been exposed to and has been mostly lost to time (Tumblr anyone? Xtube even). I worry that with the potentially lost discoverability of some of these torrents due to this search truncating results, we'll lose whatever just doesn't happen to show within the first 5-10 pages that it looks like it returns because seeders won't care to seed anything that isn't "popular" or "newest" with no leechers to benefit.
Of course, I could be missing something and this could all be old man yelling at clouds. But that's enough from me. Thank you again for the work you put into the site for us!
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@winslayer very interesting finding, it blew my mind when i tried to replicate and saw it happening live. it really seems to be a bug and it affects each sorting option differently.
When I set the sorting to Relevance, I get 971 results. In newest first it's only 80. But then in oldest first I get even less, just 40. And each different sorting option gives an arbitrary number of results.
It seems like Relevance, Name, Category, Most Comments, Highest Rated and Most Needed are not affected by this.
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tagging @joker so he can investigate
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I've noticed that too. If I don't run any search I can see torrents all the way back to 2007, but no matter what search I do - using the new features or not - the results only go back to 2022. I'm thinking maybe the whole site hasn't been indexed yet...? We're talking nearly 20 years worth of content, so that might take a while to be done.
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@chuecaman everything is indexed, the problem is on how this indexed data is being fetched. And this is not particularly related to the new site, I have noticed many years ago that search results omit certain torrents, and that the number of pages often doesn't match the reported number of torrents, resulting in dozens of blank pages.
The problem is on how torrents are being filtered and sorted, even though everything is indexed properly the results will be unreliable depending on search parameters like keywords, categories, sorting mode... I can't imagine the headache it will be to figure this out.
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@ianfontinell I see what you mean. Indexing might be done properly but the results are showing up faulty. That's way beyond my knowledge skills
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