Old site or new site? In lists or on a torrent's description page? If lists, which viewing mode or is it all of them? Pictures which were previously permanently displayed or only revealed on hover?

A more detailed description of precisely what the issue, ideally accompanied by a screenshot or two, will more likely result in being able to offer advice on how to overcome it.

Personally, I have nothing but praise and thanks.

I've dabbled a little in website design. That was hard enough when there was no baggage and no-one trying to use things before I'd finished designing and implementing them. What it was like to do so here on a live site with a long history would likely make me want to run away and hide!

Sure, there are one or two minor things that I personally don't like. But I bet there are other members who like it immensely while hating what I feel is brilliant. The words "eggs" and "omelettes" spring to mind, along with the phrase "Rome wasn't built in a day". I'm sure there are more minor tweaks to come.

Can I make a plea to those members who don't like things? Don't just say "I don't like it" or "It's rubbish." WHY don't you like it? WHAT is rubbish? It's fairly hard to address things if you don't know what those things are, so give specific reasons and examples.

In the meantime, @joker, my sincere thanks and admiration for what you've achieved!

@ianfontinell Pretty sure he meant kicking someone in the balls is seen more as an exciting offer than a threat, in some circles!

As an Englishman, living in England, and happily|proudly displaying far more than a hint of Englishness, I've never once been on the received end of hatred because of that, nor seen or heard of others encountering it.

Given the ridiculousness of that statement, one has to question whether the rest of this is equally well informed.

@DeepSeaTide Interestingly, Albo hasn't been online since a day after his post here, so I'll try to answer for him. If I've read that wrong and I'm stepping on toes, apologies in advance.

First thing: Yes, a VPN is kinda essential as it hides who you are so protects you against legal action by copyright holders.

[Side note: If you don't yet currently have a VPN but plan to, try to find a provider that offers "port forwarding". It's not an absolute requirement to torrent, and few VPNs offer it, but it's a good feature to have. I won't go into why here, so I don't overload you with information!]

How are you currently downloading your torrents? Whichever app you use is often referred to as your 'client'. qBittorrent is one popular client, but there are others such as uTorrent and Transmission. Which is best for you depends a lot on your device, your operating system, and things like that. Personally I do prefer qBittorrent over other apps.

Whichever client you are using to download ("leech") should just as readily upload ("seed"). Once you have fully downloaded a torrent you cease to be a "leecher" and become a "seeder", for as long as you keep the torrent running and you have all of those files available, with their names and file types, etc., unaltered.

At this point, you get to two different seeding states: Availability and actual seeding. You get a small amount of bonus points here just for having them available should anyone want them. You get direct credit for the volume you actually "seed" (upload).

So to maximise what you upload, others need to want download it. A good way to ensure this is to grab new torrents, or newly freeleeched torrents. The advantage of the latter is that whatever you download doesn't count against your ratio. Once you've got them you can seed for as long as you like, but if your storage space is limited it's best to delete them once no-one else is downloading them from you, and replace them with newer torrents there's a demand for.

I may be explaining things you already understand, so I'll stop there. If anything is still unclear, or there's something you think I've missed, feel free to ask.

Oh, I see. I didn't realise we were attempting to stereotype a whole nation based on one particular location in a specific time window. Could you advise if there is any particular street I need to go to, and what time is best?

I'm neither closed minded, nor "flipping out". I just have a tendency to seek evidence of and justification for claims that seem, at best, suspect.

As I saw no references to England in the article linked to, I take it that this is your own commentary. It's the assertion that "England hates least hint of Englishness" I'm challenging, so why would there be any need to reference the original article?

The fact that you seem unable to back up your claim in any substantive way leads me to conclude it's made from - at best - a position of ignorance of the true facts, and to infer that your other assertions are therefore likely to be no more credible than that one.

My conclusion? Your last two points seem far more applicable to you than to me.

Did you create the torrent using qBitorrent's Torrent Maker? If so, paste a screenshot of that here.
It should retain all the information from its last use, so all you need to do is open it as if you are going to make another torrent. Take the screenshot, then simply cancel it. Or use the example below to create a new version, if yours is a lot different, and try again with that.

If that fails, or you're confident your looks pretty much like this one ("Tracker URLs" needs to be EXACTLY like this one, not "pretty much") take a screenshot of the completed upload page, and post that here so we can see what you've filled in where.

@ianfontinell Got it. And only now, of course, do I see the clearly marked QUOTE button, right next to REPLY.

So if I was replying to @someone, using the REPLY button but wrapped your comment...

@ianfontinell I noticed that I no longer....

...as a quote, you would previously have been notified of that but now don't seem to be. And that's different to me just writing within normal comment text that " @namewithheldfornon-annoyancepurposes said he no longer gets... ". That's a mention which, I believe, you would get notified about.

Found my meds, btw, so I'll be quiet now, and go sit in a corner for a bit.

@kalayaan Thanks. Your mention of Google made me realise "Why not try Google Image Search?", and it was surprisingly easy!

For anyone seeking the same answer, the image is from Journey with You, an eight episode/400 minute Chinese drama which, at the time of writing this, is midway through airing (May 8, 2026 - Jun 19, 2026).

@Joker Thanks for investigating. The process you describe for fixing it is exactly the process I've tried on several of these multiple times already.

I've just tried again on "Doctor's Mine" - https://www.gaytor.rent/details.php?id=RTSvW-CydK9lh7zCqXtYsw - and "OF-Shane Hall" - https://www.gaytor.rent/details.php?id=uo_NNanxkhEEygcvuqCI5A.

qBittorrent won't allow you to have the same torrent listed twice. If it already exists, it just displays a warning, asking if you'd like to merge the trackers. Of course, if they're not exactly the same torrent - but maybe sharing the same name and files as an existing one - it probably would allow it. But I've double checked this isn't the case. I have a very structured naming syntax, so I'm confident it would leap out if that were the case.

I checked both torrents were exactly those I thought they were, by pausing the original before deleting it then checking that both my total seeded torrents and seeders of that torrent both dropped by one after I'd done so. After readding then restarting each torrent, both numbers rose by one.

In both cases, after I'd carefully gone through the process to readd them, those torrents immediately flagged the same warning as before as soon as they were started.

"Doctor's Mine" is a torrent I'm the creator of. I have it set up so that the torrent points to a folder with symlinks rather than the actual files. I doubt this is a contributing factor though, as I have 323 torrents set up this way, 318 of which are working with no problems. I did repeat the process, pointing to the real file locations, just in case. The result was the same.

"Shane Hall" is one I simply snatched and the torrent points to the real file location, though this isn't the original download location. It was moved using qBittorrent's facility for this. Again, I have 177 other torrents moved in the same way that have no problems, so I feel it's safe to discount this as a factor.

Having said all that, I appreciate that you have 1001 other things to do and that this is trivial in the scheme of things. If it's an issue other members also start to report, that likely makes it worthwhile investigating further. If not, I'll just get over myself (or stick masking tape over the line that annoys me) so please don't feel the need to put in further effort.

My gratitude for those efforts thus far!

@ianfontinell Once you have, I'll upvote it!

Yeah, the simple ambiguity of what it is that people could be rating makes the answer somewhat meaningless. I've always basically ignored ratings for my "download or not" decision, and have only really rated myself to counter the antisocial "I hate BL" voter's spiteful one-star rating.

Maybe it needs two: "Rate the presentation" and "Rate the content", with having first downloaded the torrent only applicable to the latter.

And/or a link to an explanatory guide telling members what it is that they should be rating, and giving some guidance: "Presentation is brilliant" = 5*; "Presentation is awful" = 1*.

Perhaps it should even be a link to a more detailed rating feature, where you can rate individual elements, like those in my last post, and those are averaged to present an overall final score. That would be quite a lot of work to set up, I appreciate, but it would give a torrent creator better feedback on how it could be better next time. It might be brilliant in every respect, spoiled only by some files being unnecessarily buried in sub-sub-sub-sub-directories. (Although, being a fan of using sub-directories myself, sometimes that's exactly how it should sensibly be!)

To be honest, I personally feel that at the moment this feature adds no value, and is hardly worth the (tiny little bit of) real estate it takes up on the page.

I've only really cared in the past about its misuse - specifically the member who so dislikes Asian BL shows that he gave every single one a one star rating, often before a torrent had even finished downloading for the first time. I suspect the introduction of the "Report voting spam" button has made this a thing of the past by its mere existence, without the need to ever actually use it.

"What am I rating?" is a very good question. How enjoyable the actual content is, is largely subjective. Of course, the quality is less so. To genuinely rate how good (or bad) you feel the contents are, you obviously need to have first watched it. So you have to find the torrent again once you have so you can rate it. I like to think of myself as fairly 'community minded', but that's seldom something I've felt motivated enough to do. Especially given that I'm sure I'm not the only one who might not actually look at something I've downloaded until weeks, or even months, after having done so, which makes finding the original source torrent something of a project.

So voting would to me seem more suitable for rating the quality of the torrent itself. Are there a suitable amount of decent images in the description? Is there even a useful description, or does that just repeat exactly the same words as in the title? Is the folder structure so unnecessarily complicated you need a map and compass before daring to venture in? Do the files have meaningful names, or do they look like someone's knocked over a scrabble board, ... etc., etc.

That's a lot to try to cram into a single rating facility, but maybe a link to a page of short guiding notes. Actually, it'd be the same notes for both rating a torrent and a helpful "Best Practice" for creating the torrent in the first place.

Of course, it's likely that only the two extremes will galvanise people into actually voting. Many will only do so if they think something is really, really good or really, really bad.

But it would be a really good way of encouraging best practice in torrent uploading. I'm betting many who upload poorly created torrents (yeah, I know, even that is a little subjective) have no idea others might feel that way and would happily follow a more user friendly standard if they knew what that was. And it would be a good way of telling the creator "This could be better" without making it look like a "You're a monster" personal attack!

@eonflux Just a thought, but according to my AI friend, if you feed the Windows script into ChatGPT, it would very likely be able to convert it into a Linux one. Even the free version should be able to do it easily, especially with a relatively short script.

The challenge is going to be to find a replacement for the proprietary Windows search engine. Wine might work, if you use it, or I guess you could hunt for a native Linux app with the same functionality.

Guess it all depends on how badly you want it, and how much time you can spare to do what needs to be done. I've lost count of how many hours I've spent going down rabbit holes where I've initially thought "this will be easy"!

@ianfontinell Brilliant. Many thanks. The icon looks remarkably like the one commonly used for "full screen" so I probably mentally blanked it out.

Thought, after the time allowed for editing, I should clarify that the site has reverted to taking up about 60% of my screen, thus allowing four torrents per row, rather than that there are four spanning 100%. Probably obvious, but just in case not.

When I first viewed the new site format, during the final testing days, it was presented in a "normal" width - i.e. the size most old fashioned websites defaulted to. This is about 60% of what my wide screen monitor can accommodate when the window is maximised.

I'm convinced that I got the width to change to use 100% of the width, meaning seven or eight torrents showed on each row in grid view. I'm fairly sure I achieved this by setting "Expanded Max Width" under Profile Settings | Display to 100%.

For some foolish reason, lost in the mists of time, I must have reset it at some point. Now it only displays four or five torrents, even with that setting at 100. Is my memory of having achieved this before actually just a dream? Am I mis-remembering how I set it?

I'd love to nearly double the amount of torrents I can see before I need to scroll down, so any suggestions gratefully accepted.

@frostycab It worked for me just now. Could your browser simply be suffering a case of Friday fatigue?

Have you tried closing it entirely and restarting it? Or clearing your browser's cache for this site?

@ianfontinell Ah, thanks. That's the "AND | OR" toggle I was thinking of. I shouldn't have been so blinkered that I missed that just because the wording was different!

@eonflux Ah, gotcha. Yeah, this works great before the event, but isn't much use after... other than for compiling a multi-file directory to reseed a torrent without having to copy or move all the files back into a single folder once you've found those files.

I'm on Linux too, and I now have a script attached to my toolbar in Double Commander. I simply have the "From" folder open one side and the "To" on the other, click that button, then rename the symlinks to the original torrent names, if that's necessary.

I only use it for multiple file torrents that I intend to seed long term though. It's quick and easy, but not easy enough to justify it for everything.