I hadn't heard of fish until recently. Decided to give it a try. Gotta say it's pretty awesome.

I never knew that I needed tab completion on the shell

Oh boy. And here I am still using Py2.7 with Django 1.6

I'm in the midst of upgraded a 1.6 project to 1.10 and Python 3. Wish me continued success :-)

I've been trying that for the past 1 year with no luck. Product always takes higher priority.

Make sure you have dedicated time for the migration

This is not a sustainable position to be in. Migrations are product issues.

I still have a project on 1.2!

Yikes! I thought we were bad with 1.3 (for a major UK business micro site)

That site served blazingly fast. It's refreshing to see an ad free torrent site.

Since you aren't monetizing the site, how are you planning on keeping the site running? Donations?

It's very fast.

Currently they're NOT accepting donations.

https://www.skytorrents.in/howto

Given the relatively slim page size (23Kb for me), and given that SQLite can pretty easily host a relatively simple database like this one and serve 100K-1M queries per day[0], I would expect that whoever is hosting this could pretty easily host this on a single dedicated server which only costs ~$50. So for the foreseeable future, I suspect this site will be fine.

[0] - https://sqlite.org/whentouse.html

The cost of hosting will probably be insignificant compared to the cost of dealing with DMCA takedowns and possibly lawsuits.

That's why I built Magnetissimo: https://github.com/sergiotapia/magnetissimo

It's easy to build a crawler, the hard part is spending time on bullshit like DMCA takedowns and such. Even if you say: "I just crawl, I don't provide download links, I don't even know what is indexed", you have to deal with legal issues.

So, host your own locally or for your community. No big deal.

Even Google has to deal with DMCA!

How large is the database compiled by Magnetissimo? Is it Wikipedia-sized (a few dozens of Gigabytes), or several orders of magnitude above or below?

Haven't really measured to be honest. But it's only 1 model with a few fields. Shouldn't be humongous.

I'm sure you'll right. The MPAA will get this taken down as soon as they are aware of it. Which is a shame because it's a very nice looking and functional website.

Aside: the MPAA can do this, of course, because they give lots of money to politicians. If Trump really wants to "drain the swamp" he could be more pro-freedom on file sharing and copyright. Many Trump supporters feel Holywood supports the Democrats, so it's not like he will lose much support over this. A Republican staffer suggested something similar a while ago ( https://politics.slashdot.org/story/12/11/16/2354259/gop-bri... ) but was shot down.

Unless it's a honeypot run by the MPAA ... doffs tinfoil hat

If the MPAA put the site up aren't they then implicitly authorising it's use. Surely that would preclude any suggestions of tortuous infringement.

If I put a sign on my house saying "please take anything you like" and people take stuff then it's no longer burglary. If someone else puts the sign up, who isn't authorised, then it is still theft.

Of course following that analogy through, if MPAA aren't authorised then any content owners should be able to successfully sue them for contributory infringement. People in the UK have been extradited for such things. Extradition of MPAA bosses for running a torrent site would be hilarious (but still wrong!).

they have in past been busted doing similar things so i dont put is past them

SQLITE cannot handle indexing queries of our kind and is not used. We have kept the page slim, so as the website is as fast as possible.

If you don't mind me asking, what technologies are you using?

It appears to be using Caddy at least https://caddyserver.com/

Caddy is just used as a reverse proxy, a frontend for the backends.

You could use Sqlite for persistence, but a search index like Lucene for full-text searching - and Lucene runs great in constrained environments too.

Sphinx Search is orders of magnitude faster and more lightweight than Lucene.

Heck, even PostgreSQL's fulltext indexes would be faster than those Java monsters.

Never seen someone so passionate about shoelaces. It's great that a site like this exists. Wonder what other niche sites I'm missing out on.

Google usually suggests that users create app specific passwords for anything that requires you to enter your Google credentials inside another app. If we follow this religiously, then the risk will be quite low

That was one of the most clever phishing attack that I've ever seen. I'm quite sure that if I wasn't aware of such attacks, I'd fall for it myself.

That's actually quite well done