@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.

@MrMazda said:

... as well as the ability to search categories together (ie the torrent has to fall in both categories to appear) ...

Is it an "AND" search? It seems to be "OR" to me, from a quick test. I set 'Category' to "Comics" and "Middle East", and these are two of the results:

It lists anything that falls into both, of course, but also things that fall into only one category or the other. I couldn't see a toggle to specify whether a search should be "AND" or "OR". Given the already complex nature of the search, I wonder if an AND|OR toggle could even be incorporated. @Joker? Although, to be honest, it's pretty great as it is, and probably not worth that extra refinement unless it truly is dead easy!

Edit: Having thought about it for a minute, it must be "OR". You can expand 'Category', untick just a couple, and the new results won't include anything in those unticked categories. If it was "AND", it should give no results. At least, I'm pretty sure no torrent is assigned to every single one of the categories I have ticked!

@WikiDude Will do it that way then, when appropriate. Thanks. Hopefully, @Joker's fix to display an "Image awaiting approval" message, where appropriate, will reduce the need for reporting, and the number of people doing so before an image appears.

@eonflux You can do this using something called "symbolic links". At least, they're called that in Linux. I think the MS and Mac names are siimilar but not the same.

They're basically pointers you can put in your seeding folder that point to where the real files are. Those real files can be scattered in different folders and even different drives. They can also have different names. The seeding folder matches the torrent, so that's happy. But they're 'physically' where you want, so you're happy.

Here's an example of one I'm using. In the left-hand pane are the real files. In the right, the symbolic link files. (1) and (2) show the different directory locations. I choose to have the directory names the same as each other, but they don't have to be.

If you look at the sizes of the files on the right, you'll see they're relatively tiny, so it's far more efficient than keeping two full copies of each, one how you prefer, the other for seeding.

I've written a fairly detailed guide of how it works and how to implement it, if it's of interest. It's written for Linux, but the principles and process apply to Windows no differently.

@frostycab I agree, but probably a new bug, generated by the original fix. I'm fairly sure these are the same torrents that were initially uploaded without images, so got the place holder note (actually "should get", as those torrents all got "No image"). That note doesn't seem to be being replaced with one of the images, once they've been approved.

It also isn't being replaced with an "Image awaiting approval", so it still isn't possible to see whether that torrent doesn't have a pic full stop, or whether it does now have one that just hasn't been approved yet.

@Joker I don't suppose it would be possible in situations like these to add a 'placeholder' image would it? Something like "Image(s) awaiting approval"?

See? The downside with doing difficult things so well and so quickly is that people like me start expecting the impossible too!

@briefsboy86 Fair enough. And loadsa kudos for the mea culpa. I don't think I actually said any rude words about you, but if I did, I apologise.

@ianfontinell Yeah, I've been biting my tongue till now, giving the benefit of the doubt that maybe unresolved bug issues in uploading pix are the cause. Even I can't blame a member for that.

But given how amazingly quickly @Joker responds, and fixes, any reported bugs, I don't think members can reasonably hide behind that excuse, even if it's true. If a bug has hampered them, they should be reporting it not just ignoring it, so I feel fully justified in calling them rude names - at least in the privacy of my own home. Probably not acceptable to do that publicly here!

I have mixed views on "single file or folder". It certainly takes up less real estate to have multiple files and you can download everything in one go, but it's much harder to reseed at a later date, if you've only downloaded some of the files or have moved them around to match your own filing system - by studio, by performer, by category, by published date, etc.

Sometimes people ignore the torrent upload requirement for there to be at least one image. As an occasional issue, I just mutter a rude word under my breath and move on. However, at this moment the first page of most recent torrents is showing more without than with. Maybe not so annoying when viewing in one of the list type views, but for those looking at the grid - which is primarily visual - it's significant!

What's the correct etiquette here? Should I wade through each torrent, leaving a comment asking for an image to be added? Should I do so via private messages to the uploaders? Should I report each one? Or should I assume that someone else will do so in an official capacity and I should just ignore it / get over it?

I'm guessing it's more likely to be a single uploader in this case, rather than a coincidence of multiple members all doing this at the same time. So maybe it's a "just pick one or two" situation, rather than every single one.

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!

@panoptikon I have to admit that I'm intrigued as to an invite for what? I'm assuming it can't be for here, as you are here already!