First off: thanks for all the love. A few original quotes from the past weeks: "this upgrade doesn't make any sense to me at all" · "the new UI is really confusing" · "I have mixed feelings on the new UI" · "thumbnails are HORRIBLE" · "garbage" · "hot mess". Don't worry — it all reached me.

Some of you are putting the result on trial pretty hard — because not everything is perfect on the first click, or because you have to adjust a setting first. I actually understand that.

But some perspective: this site had to be carried from 2006 all the way to 2026. In March we would have celebrated 20 years — this work is my gift to the community. I couldn't have built anything new on top of the 2006 "garbage pile", so everything had to be modernised first. What that means in practice:

• Frontend completely new — new design, runs on desktop, tablet and phone
• Backend completely rewritten — 20-year-old code replaced, over 2,000 commits since New Year alone
• User security noticeably higher — 2FA, passkeys, hardened logins and sessions; and "strong" privacy now actually means strong
• Tracker on a whole new level — scales in every direction, unlimited peers, realtime responses, IPv6. And I'm still hard at work on the last bugs there — see the "unregistered torrent" thread, I'll post an update there as soon as the fix lands
• An AI pipeline of my own — it has already tagged and classified 6 million images, and it runs entirely on my own hardware: nothing leaves the house. Smarter tags and search are just the beginning; a lot more is coming your way from this
• Over 340 API endpoints — the foundation for the new QTM and everything that comes after
• 27 languages — the whole site
• Completely new search with relevance ranking
• New upload form plus the Classic Uploader — I tried to make it as easy as possible, and ran quite a few extra laps for that
• Settings for practically everything — views, font sizes, density, homepage … take a look at your My page
• New helpdesk and the forum directly integrated — one login for everything

All of that, by the way: one pair of hands.

And all of it happened on one database, in a running system — no new accounts, nothing to re-register, ratio and history migrated seamlessly. The move itself was invisible to you — except for "everything sucks, the font is too small".

Now the important part: we have only just arrived at this point — and this is where it actually starts. The rebuild was never the prize, it was the entry ticket. I know exactly why the new site doesn't feel like a win at first glance: right now it mostly asks something of you — find a button again, change a setting, unlearn a 15-year-old habit. You have to think too much, and the new things that make all of it worth it are only now starting to land. Judging the whole project today means judging a race at the starting gun.

One more thing: not a single user request from the past 8 weeks has gone unheard. What more do you want? Complaining alone gets you nothing — save that for family, friends or the pub. Suggestions and constructive criticism, on the other hand, have never been handled faster than today. Promised.

And to the member who "spent the first two days hating it" and now "wouldn't go back if you paid me" — thanks for sticking it out. That's exactly the curve.

You have no idea what has happened here — and what's still coming. A fresh start is never easy. I just had to get that off my chest.

Hey guys — thanks for raising this, and sorry for the hassle it's caused.

First, the important bit: this is not a scam or phishing, and your accounts are safe. Those "confirm your email" messages were being sent out by our own forum by mistake — a glitch had it firing off confirmation emails over and over, even though none of you asked for anything. You didn't do anything wrong, and there was never anything you actually needed to click.

I've fixed it on our end, so they'll stop. If one or two still trickle in right after this, just ignore them — they were already on their way before the fix went in. Next time you open the forum your address gets squared away automatically, and that's the end of it.

And @ianfontinell nailed it: your email here is tied to your main account on the site — there's nothing to set or change on the forum side, so anything asking you to "verify" it here was never something you had to act on.

Thanks again for flagging it, and for being cautious with those links in the first place — that's exactly the right instinct. If anything else looks off, give me a shout.

Sorry folks, some of you run again into the let's-encrypt certificate issue we had some month ago. I was stupid enough to try it again with let's-encrypt for the new url..

I just installed a new Certificate for the new tracker.gaytor.rent url

everybody should be able to connect now ! maybe you need a restart if not

hope that helps

@Kevin4fm Done — torrents whose pictures are still in the moderation queue now show an "Images awaiting approval" tile in the grid instead of looking broken (and the Browse view no longer hides them completely, which it quietly did before). Genuinely picture-less torrents say "No images".

And to clear up the mystery: I checked the whole first page — every single one of those torrents has pictures. They're just sitting in the approval queue, mostly from newer uploaders. So no need for rude words, muttered or otherwise.

@briefsboy86 That's exactly your case — your pictures arrived fine and will show as soon as they're approved. Welcome aboard, and thanks for the upload.

@ianfontinell You were half right: the rule itself held on these, but one upload path really did accept submissions without a picture — that hole is closed now, on both the form and the server side.

@lordring875

i just installed a new SSL certificate not issued by Let's Encrypt for our tracker. It should now work everything as expected..

also the forum issue with the lost connection problem is solved and should not happen anymore

enjoy

Quick update from the team — this is fixed now.

Uploading torrents and adding pictures were failing for a few hours because of a technical problem on our side (nothing to do with your torrents or your accounts). It is sorted and everything is back to normal — new uploads are flowing again.

Sorry for the disruption, and thanks for the reports, they helped us pin it down fast.

wow, you where pretty much excited about accessing the forum with your picture. Love it. And that upgrade here was just the beginning. Preparing a mature update for our 20th anniversary. Stay tuned guys

Did you guys noticed (i guess not) that we now have a really fast tracker backend? The clients get instant reply from tracker within about 30ms

@ianfontinell this post is so funny.. 30% tech talk / site talk and 70% is dating

@john32123666

damn.. you just like sex...

get yourself a friend and try it real. if you have more real sex you will watch less porn

I would appreciate your feedback on today's design update. Some of you have already reported about fonts that are too small. It is always very important to know where exactly on which page you see a problem. Then we save ourselves unnecessary questions back and forth. Of course I am also happy about every positive feedback, without any change wishes.  :cheers:

Thanks for flagging this, and thanks bi85qad for the clear description, and ianfontinell for pointing at the default categories, that was exactly the right lead.

You were both right about the cause. A change had crept in where typing a search term would quietly limit your results to your default categories (the ones set at My > Content). So if the thing you searched for lived outside those categories, you would get few or no results, and picking a category manually was the only way around it. Not what anyone expects when they just type a word into search.

That is now fixed: a keyword search looks across all categories again, like it used to. Your default categories still apply to the plain browse/landing view (that is what they are for), and if you deliberately pick categories for a search, those are still honoured.

No action needed on your end, just give search another try. Shout here if anything still looks off.

Staff note: thanks for all the testing in this thread, it was genuinely useful. The concrete points raised here (seeder columns, uploader name display, list contents, .torrent creation date, download issues after the switch) have been picked up into our internal tracking, and several are already fixed. Closing the triage entries for this thread; anything still broken for you today, just open a fresh thread or a helpdesk ticket.

Staff here. Your site account is fine and not blocked, so nothing is wrong on that side. Two questions so we can pin it down: are you trying to log in on the website itself, or inside the GUU tool? And what exactly happens, an error message or just a bounce back to the login form? If the website works but GUU does not, the tool may need an update since logins got stricter recently, and that would be good for vancer to know. If the website itself rejects you, do the forgot-password reset MrMazda suggested and check that you log in with your username, not your email.

Staff here. This is how visibility works: a fresh upload stays non-visible until our tracker sees the first seeder, there is no approval queue. The usual fix when uTorrent says seeding but the site disagrees: delete the torrent you created locally from the client, download the .torrent file from your own upload page here, add that one to uTorrent pointing at your original files, then force a re-announce. That version carries your personal announce key, which the self-made one does not. It should flip to visible within a minute or two of the tracker seeing you. If it still stays invisible after that, tell me the torrent name and I will check the tracker side directly.

No worries on this one: using a VPN or a dedicated IP is completely fine and does not get an account terminated. Cheating detection is about behaviour, not about what IP you connect from, and plenty of members seed from dedicated servers or seedboxes. Just keep your account to yourself as usual and you have nothing to worry about.

Quick pointers on this. The six-digit code only exists if you turned on two-factor authentication yourself at some point: it's the rotating code inside the authenticator app (Google Authenticator, Aegis, etc.) you scanned the QR code with back then. If you never set that up, the site won't ask you for one. If you couldn't log in over the last days without ever enabling 2FA, that was most likely a site-side login issue we fixed yesterday, so please just try again. And if you're genuinely locked out (lost the app or the recovery code), contact the helpdesk from the email address registered to your account and we'll sort it out there.

ianfontinell has it exactly right. Nothing is being deleted within minutes. A torrent only shows in browse and search while the tracker sees at least one seeder, and that check runs every minute. So if the uploader's client stalls or closes, the upload drops out of the listings a minute later, but it still exists on the tracker and comes right back the moment they seed again. Actual removal only happens when an upload never gets its initial seed for more than 3 days. So if your fresh upload vanished: start or fix the seeding in your client and it will reappear on its own.

The six-digit code is the one-time code from the authenticator app (Google Authenticator, Authy, etc.) that you set up when you enabled two-factor login under Settings > Security. If you've lost access to that app, just message the Helpdesk and we'll turn two-factor off for you so you can sign in with your username and password again (and you can re-enable it later if you like). If you never turned on two-factor, you don't need a code at all. Sorry for the hassle!

Just to set minds at ease: the tracker and downloads are healthy across the site right now, there's no outage on our end. We had a brief server hiccup on the 24th that mostly affected uploads, but that's been sorted for a while now.

ianfontinell has this spot on, what's happening here is a VPN/client thing rather than the site. A few things that usually fix it:

• Open https://tracker.gaytor.rent/stmdd in a browser. If that page loads for you, the tracker is reachable and the issue is between your client and us.
• In qBittorrent, bind it to your VPN's network adapter (Options > Advanced > Network Interface) so it stops announcing your other IPs. Out of the box qB lists every address, and the ones not routed through the VPN show as "not working", which is expected.
• Make sure split-tunneling is off so all torrent traffic actually goes through the VPN, and that your VPN allows P2P on the endpoint you're connected to.
• If your VPN puts you on CGNAT or IPv6-only, try an endpoint that gives you a normal IPv4 address.

Give that a go and let us know if anything is still stuck, with your torrent and client details, and we'll dig in.

Welcome aboard. 0 kB/s upload usually means your torrent client can't accept incoming connections, so other peers can't reach you to pull data from you. Two things fix it most of the time: make sure your client's listening port is open/forwarded in your router (or turn on UPnP / NAT-PMP in the client settings), and if you're on a VPN, use one that supports port forwarding. Also double-check the client is actually seeding the completed files. Once peers can connect to you, your upload will pick up. Let us know if it's still stuck after that.