I know it's a contentious issue with studios that still exist because it makes the site easier to slam with DMCA, but I wouldn't mind if GTru maintained some kind of metadata that could be attached to a listing. Additionally it would be nice if some data was bundled in the file listing, but given the lightweight nature of the site I know this is already asking a lot.
Essentially I want a way to unambiguously track the various artifacts strewn across a bunch of different torrent listings.
See:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Authority_control
Catalog data maintained beside listing would make it a heck of a lot easier to determine if
a)There exists a torrent for a particular movie that is not dead
b)A compilation for a particular model or studio is complete or has holes.
Currently some semblance of this is maintained by offsite databases but their records are spotty, and not linked to any of the torrent listings. I figure projects could be spawned to ensure that series, especially out of print series are archived somewhere.
Right now the only way to do this is to hunt around the internet solo for some idea of what a site or series or studio once was, and then tediously hope the compilation torrents get refined as you cross reference with other torrents and not missing torrents.
A good start would be letting users over a certain leech( enough that they'd have to overcome some ratio and so have a vested interest in not fooling around) create series which contain episodes with an index number(order in series) (possibly null) and name. Then let users tag a torrent with this series (not really granular enough, but better than having to individually tag every episode)
