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

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:

I’d like to apologize once again. This forum login bug has actually existed for many years now, and it has more or less corrupted the entire database. I’ve made several attempts to delete these new accounts and merge the posts from those accounts back into the original accounts. Apparently, that still hasn’t worked everywhere.

I’m going to take another look at it later, but I’m afraid I may not be able to fix it perfectly. I hope you can live with it to some extent. At the very least, you should now be able to log back into your normal accounts again. I hope that at least worked.

This bug was so severe and so complicated, and over the past few years I simply didn’t have the time or the nerves to deal with it. Once again, I’m very, very sorry.

A few of these are adjustable in My → Search: a font-size scale (90–130%) if the text feels small, a result-list font option, and the "Sticky search bar" toggle. I also added a pin icon on the search bar to flip the sticky behaviour in place. Give those a try and shout if anything's still awkward.

@Tomron20 You're right — that link pointed at the forum home with no guide behind it, sorry. There's a proper step-by-step now: https://www.gaytor.rent/reseedguide.php (keep your files, re-add the .torrent, point the client at the folder, force re-check). The automated reseed message links to it correctly now. Thanks for reporting it!

@TorrentzMast Thanks for the kind 2006→2026 note! Good news on the "Other users also snatched" box — it had quietly broken after the switch and is fixed now, so it's back on the details page (between the description and "More like this"). Appreciate you flagging it.

@Kevin4fm Checked all eight from the database side: every torrent you linked is registered and healthy on the tracker, and your client is announcing six of them successfully right now — so your account, passkey and connection are all fine. The warning entries are something else: they are older copies of torrents that were later deleted or re-uploaded on the site (dupes, replacements, takedowns). Your client still has the old task loaded, and the tracker genuinely doesn't know that old version anymore — that's the "unregistered" it shows. The freshly downloaded version of the same title runs as a separate entry, which is why "#helix" can seed happily while a warning sits right next to it.

The fix, per entry: remove the old warning task in qBittorrent (keep the files), then let the re-downloaded .torrent take over — point it at the same folder and recheck. The warning won't come back after that. And to be clear, this isn't a qBittorrent bug or anything wrong on your end — any client would show the same, because the old torrent really is gone from the tracker.

@Kevin4fm Dug into this properly, using "#helix" as the test case — nothing is broken on your end or ours; the message is literally true.

A torrent is identified by a fingerprint of its contents, not by its name. The "#helix" you're seeding carries the fingerprint of an earlier upload of that release which was later removed from the site (duplicate cleanups, re-uploads and the like happen all the time). The page you linked is a newer upload of the same release from June 2 — same name, different fingerprint. Your client keeps announcing the old fingerprint, the tracker honestly answers "unregistered torrent" — meanwhile the current version seeds happily (54 peers on it right now), and your client announces your other ~500 torrents just fine. With that many active seeds, every now and then one of them turns out to be a version that later got replaced or removed — that's why the number slowly grows.

The fix, per affected torrent: remove the old entry in qBittorrent (keep your data), download the .torrent fresh from the live details page, add it pointing at your existing files and let it recheck — it joins the current version and counts again. Important: redownloading without removing the old entry just adds a second entry — the old one keeps warning forever, which may be what you saw after your redownload round.

Where there's no live page anymore (the release is simply gone from the site), the warning is permanent — that entry can safely go, it isn't earning you anything.

No database hot-sticks needed this time

@MrMazda @frostycab Closing the loop on this one: the ladybug report was spot on. Pictures added to an already-published torrent and approved later never refreshed the search/grid tile — only the details page showed them. That's fixed since last night, and the ~50 older torrents that were stuck in that state have been repaired as well. New approvals update the tiles right away now.

The empty hover-popups from earlier today were a separate, short-lived hiccup right after the fix went out — reloading the page once (as frostycab found) clears it.

The picture mystery is solved — and you had the pattern exactly right: pictures that were added after the upload and then approved by a mod weren't refreshing the search/browse view, so details showed them while search said "no image". That's fixed, all torrents that were stuck in that state have been repaired, and the site now re-checks itself periodically so this can't quietly come back. Thanks for the sharp diagnosis — the "uploaded without pics, added later" observation was the key.

@BWCLOVER67 Thanks for the screenshot — that's the old QuickTorrentMaker, and it doesn't understand the new site anymore. A new version of QTM is in the works and should be out in the coming days. Until then, please use the site's own upload page (Upload in the menu) like MrMazda suggested — same result, you just add the torrent to your client yourself afterwards.

@SalbakutaMas Thanks — noted, all three points are on the list. (Small footnote: two of the three "Add a comment" buttons are the deliberate top+bottom pair for long comment threads — but I hear you on the overall button density.) And glad the tags + "more like this" land well — that pipeline is exactly where a lot of what's coming next builds on.

@underlvr Both of those still exist — they moved into settings:

File/comment lists on hover: My page → Search settings → "File-list / comments popup" → set it to Hover (default is Click so popups don't ambush you while scrolling).

Thumbnails on hover in Compact view: already live — hover the torrent title (or the camera icon). Want it even lazier? Set "Thumbnail hover trigger" to Row and the strip opens from anywhere on the row, old-site style.

Worth a stroll through the My page — there's a setting for almost everything now.