What does HackerNews think of magnetissimo?

See also: Magnetissimo [1], Torrentinim [2], and Spotweb [3].

[1] https://github.com/sergiotapia/magnetissimo

[2] https://github.com/sergiotapia/torrentinim

[3] https://github.com/spotweb/spotweb

I liked magnetissimo (from the same author) much more, but its kind of sleeping:

https://github.com/sergiotapia/magnetissimo

also Magnetissimo https://github.com/sergiotapia/magnetissimo

implemented using Elixir and Phoenix. Cool little project

I own a 2.3K star Github repository (https://github.com/sergiotapia/magnetissimo), that while trivial in it's implementation, it's pretty useful to a ton of people.

There are a few core contributors to the project now and a Discord server as well and everything in this article rings true to me.

It becomes an obligation of sorts and you definitely feel like you're letting people down, especially when it comes to people who have taken the time to contribute and share feedback, let alone people who actually open PRs.

What I think can help is having more core contributors with write permissions, share the load. Or be up front in your readme and say, "I only check this once a quarter".

I can see this working if your project's target audience is developers. But for most projects where the target audience is just regular users, most vastly prefer a simple CRUD form to create an issue.

Checkout some of the issue I have in my repo: https://github.com/sergiotapia/magnetissimo

They are valuable insight into the problems people have, and if I asked them to open a PR for every problem I would most likely have 1 or 2 at most issues open. Everybody loses.

I was about to add them to our tracker list. :(

https://github.com/sergiotapia/magnetissimo

There's something really sad when these sites die, a part of my teenage life is gone for good. I felt the same way when Demonoid shut down.

Can these sites skate the legality line by offering only magnet links? Why are their costs so high if they can just host magnet links and cache the site with Varnish or something similar?

My Elixir/Phoenix project Magnetissimo. When KickassTorrents died, I thought I should just build my own crawler and be done with it.

Elixir's OTP was a fantastic fit, I scrape stuff really quickly with minimal orchestration code. There are bugs here and there, and I haven't had time to circle back and patch a lot of the issues I noticed, but it "works".

I'm proud of it because it broke the 200 star barrier on my Github profile. With Elixir to boot! I love this language.

https://github.com/sergiotapia/magnetissimo

Hey thanks for the offer. I wrote an open source Elixir application called Magnetissimo. It goes all over the internet, finds torrents and indexes them in a simple to use UI with one-click download links.

Elixir was paramount for this project's simplicity. I leveraged GenServer and the BEAM VM to effortlessly created different crawl queues that utilize all the cpu's cores to maximize throughput. It's really really fast.

The idea is that anyone can clone the project, run it, and get upwards of 400+ torrents indexed per second immediately. Your own personal kickasstorrents. Or host one for your friends and family.

Would love to add a logo to the project.

- Screenshot: http://i.imgur.com/B9OFxTx.png

- Github: https://github.com/sergiotapia/magnetissimo

- License: MIT