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You're probably right, but don't forget that nyaa is also non profit - they don't run ads and they're also 100% open source. We have seen substantial growth too in the period that we haven't been posting our torrents here. Word spreads I guess. I'm happy with it sure, but I'd still like to contribute back to this community. I've been trying for ~3 months for permission to post here, it's not an off the cuff thingBut by making torrents easily available wouldn't you minimize the possibility of someone making money out what you are creating? That way most users will go directly to your torrents instead of wasting time on platforms that hide their stuff behind adfly links or paywalls.
Hell, even F95 is behind in some cases like koikatsu sunshine, they are linking to the old r2.2 file for a while but nyaa already has theYou must be registered to see the linksavailable. Why? because most people are probably going directly to nyaa when they can.
Try swap nyaa with one of the numerous sites that just repost content added to this site. Then disable your adblocker and visit the site again and if you manage to find just one that doesn't have explicit ads, or a popup/popunder or worse, K2S or florenfile links, then I'll be very surprised.
As a note also, I linked you to my previous comment when we started and in it I included one example of just one site that rehosted just one of our torrents. Being entirely public is the exact opposite of minimizing abuse, it just magnifies it x10.
It's important to remember too that this isn't just about our servers or about the torrents themselves. It's about our users and the users here on F95Zone that are also seeding files. Their bandwidth too is being exploited by these sites.
In a perfect world everyone would be in it for the content and this wouldn't be an issue. Fact is, that's just not how things are - a line has to be drawn somewhere and this is where I've decided to draw it.
Thanks for the heads up with r4 btw, I was at r3.