@teefup said in why can't i send messages?:
@bi4smooth can you check my account too? was trying to PM the people who liked the first set of these vids to let em know I had uploaded a second set.
I'm not a moderator or staff member... just an old-timer (been on this site since 2008) whose seen a LOT of changes over the years!
I'm not 100% sure, but while in a speaking vernacular, "snatched" and "downloaded" are synonymous, in terms of the tracker there is a difference:
The tracker "tracks" ALL of your files, so a "free leech" is free (WRT your ratio), but it is not unnoticed...
So, long story short - it's a tracker thing... otherwise, snatched and downloaded mean the same...
Congrats on the position! I'm sure you'll get more out of it than you put into it! That's always been my experience in volunteer positions 
@urx585 said in torrent files that only load correctly in a few clients:
I work in the IT industry, so this is kind-of "up my alley".
- I hadn't thought of it, but yes - a non-padded torrent WOULD appear significantly smaller... however, as I noted in my post above: those "padding" files are created as "sparse" files with all zero data. ACTUAL XFERED DATA is practically nil! Depending on the filesystem you download into, they may also store as practically zero-length files (in storage, not in the OS listing of the file size).
#2 is unfortunately incorrect for most torrent clients and filesystems. When I download a 32MB file of all zero bytes from my seedbox, it takes exactly as long as downloading a 32MB file with non-zero bytes.
I wouldn't be so sure. Firstly, compression on networks isn't like compression on old-style modems: it's enabled , generally, by default.
Secondly, the way "sparse" files are designed to work is to be "invisible" to the end user. The OS reports the "size" of the file as the "advertised" size. There is another field that is illustrative in Windows: "size on disk".
That said, many NAS devices do not support "sparse files" and if your external drives are using an older FAT32 or older NTFS filesystem, they won't support sparse files at all. But that is not the fault of the torrent uploader.
Same for ratio: when I download a torrent with lots of padding in Tixati (my alternate client when rutorrent doesn't work) all of the padding bytes count against my ratio. Not that I care, I have a 2 petabyte buffer, but some people have to worry about their ratio.
Tixati is new to me... however, it tries to be ultra-lightweight, so I suspect the logic to process sparse files (or padding files) may be absent.
For instance, when I deleted the .pad directory for the ASG torrent, I got about 34 GB of disk space back. File with all zero bytes are only more efficient if you're using compression. If you're not using compression, then on the disk, and through the network, there is no difference between files with just zeroes and files with both ones and zeroes.
That may or may not be true - that depends on your OS and filesystem. (My Macs support sparse files, as does my Linux VM where I do most of my torrent traffic. My Windows desktop does not - at least not on the NAS device where I store my porn...
qbittorrent may never actually download the padding files at all. I believe the default behavior is to completely hide everything having to do with padding. That's why so many Uploaders don't know their torrent client is adding pad files, I usually have to ask them to click on [See full list] before they believe that such a thing exists. So if you're using qbittorrent, the pad files may indeed appear to take no time to download, because they're not being downloaded. However most torrent clients don't have this feature, so they treat the pad files just like any other pic or vid file.
Again, this isn't a qBitTorrent thing, it's a libtorrent thing. Deluge, qBitTorrent, and about a dozen smaller, less popular, torrent clients all use the same core library.
#3 I don't want to require anyone to do anything, but this error was introduced recently, and it would be very nice if we could "patch" it by removing whatever extension field or metadata that's causing this error in so many other torrent clients.
I will again use the analogy of web browsers. There are still some sites out there that require IE to operate properly (pity, now that IE is officially D-E-A-D... RIP). We've all adjusted to websites being a little different on different browsers, why is it so hard to apply this to torrents?
Having said that, I do agree that a recent update to libtorrent appears to have broken backward compatibility with some other torrent clients - and that definitely should be addressed. (And as you point out below, maybe it already has...). My point is that this isn't unprecedented territory in the history of the Internet - indeed, it's actually been commonplace!
I've read a lot of comments from frustrated users on the torrents with this error, and it appears most people only use one torrent client, so when they get an error, they think there's something wrong with the torrent file, they don't think there's something wrong with their torrrent client, and they don't try a different one.
Maybe they'll learn something here, as a result of our discussion.
BTW, it's possible this error was fixed by an even newer version of qbittorrent/libtorrent, because I've recently seen a few large torrents with lots of padding files that load correctly in rutorrent. So maybe the solution is to ask all the libtorrent users to do one more upgrade. I don't know for sure, because I can't figure out what's causing the error. However when I look at the headers in these .torrent files it seems like there's some entries I haven't seen before.
#4 I download a large number of multi-file torrents from other sites. You're right, no other site has anywhere near the content that we have here, but I get probably a third of my torrents from other sites, and many of them have those pesky .srt files and thumbnail pics etc. This particular error (fails to load in rutorrent, Transmission, and others) started a few months ago. On GT, I run into this error maybe once per day (I don't post every link here, and I didn't start this thread until recently.) On the other sites, I've never had this happen, not once. Just based on the numbers, I don't think it's coincidence.
Yes, Uploaders create the initial .torrent file, but this site's processing engine modifies them too. When I upload a new torrent, the .torrent file I download from the post-upload page is not the same as the .torrent file I initially created with my torrent client.
You confuse the .torrent encoding (the blocks and checksums) with the torrent metadata - which includes the tracker URLs... thoe tracker URLs are unique for a private tracker like ours - it's how the tracker knows you're you, and who to "apply" upload and download credits to... That's a FAR CRY from editing the contents of the torrent stream data itself!
Maybe the other sites are using some logic that strips non-standard extensions and metadata from .torrent file headers.
There are other sites that edit the metadata, but without the source data, it'd be a tall, TALL order to rebuild the stream cheksum data.... just saying...
Again, really appreciate you taking the time to discuss this. If there's a solution, it may apply more broadly, and shield us from the next bug that the programmers will inevitably introduce...
I am personally hopeful that libtorrent will see the error of their ways (wrt backward compatibility) and release a patch soon. In the meantime, just as our site is best viewed on Chrome, maybe some of these torrents are best managed by Deluge or qBitTorrent? Just an idea...
Peace be with you...
@erich214
Thank you for your comments.
At least so far in this forum, @raphjd appears to adhere to the "you're with me or you're against me" mentality. (I labeled this "bipolar", but he took to interpreting that solely as the mental disorder - even when I clarified it for him, so I'll try an different tack...).
Well to be clear: I am not with him, but neither am I against him.
I have said that we do need to look back, investigate, and learn what we did wrong in the early days of COVID spreading in our respective countries.
@raphjd seems to have already made up his mind based on conspiracy theories and partial (to be generous) data. I prefer to wait for some real data.
@kekkaishi said in Advice for sucking cock and breathing:
I love to suck cock very much. In my head I tell to myself that I can suck for hours, but when start to suck a dick (regular size and above), I'm having difficulty breathing even though my nostrils are open.
It mainly happens when I deepthroat, I can deepthroat no problem, but even regular size dicks i'm having hard time breathing.
Depending on the dick size and how deep you go, I can suck a dick at most for 30 seconds without a break for air
I am aware that while I have a dick in my mouth, I try knowingly to breath through my nose, but it's not enough
I don't have this problem with small dicks though
any tips?
Understand the biology - and equally understand that porn is fantasy - when you see what looks like a guy staying all-the-way down on a 9-inch cock for long periods of time, it's not real - it's spliced together.
So, biologically speaking, the air pathway for your nose-breathing "meets" the air pathway for mouth breathing - pretty much right at the back of the mouth... See here
As you can see, the air pathways join pretty much right at the end/back of your mouth... so any cock you're taking beyond that point, you're taking into your throat - which is shared by both mouth-breathing and nose-breathing.
You could (purely theoretically) get a tracheostomy - a tube inserted into the base of your neck and into your breathing tube (your trachea - hence the name)... that would allow air to come in well below the end of all-but-the-largest dick! But, IMHO, that'd be a little extreme! LOL
No, the fact is, you have to pull off far enough to get air (through your nose OR mouth - try it with your mouth - the cool air rushing around his hot, wet cock can be quite exhilarating for him!) every few moments to catch your breath...
Unfortunately, you've found a torrent that has no seeders.
Look near the bottom of the torrent's page and you'll see that there are currently 0 seeders, and 1 leechers (that's you!).
At this point, your best bet is to click on the "Request Reseed" button just below the information above... With any luck, someone who has downloaded that content will still have it (and it'll still be organized the same way) so that they can help you get your own copy!
Good luck! I hope you get your re-seed!
I don't use Windoze browsers (I'm a Linux guy)... thus, I do not see the same error messages you might... Further, I have tools that let me look "inside" the traffic (which I have done)... Thus, I can say with reasonable certainty that this is a proxy issue. (I have my suspicions, but that's a technical rabbit-hole maybe 3 users on the entire site would want to hear about!)
Specifically, this site sits behind a reverse-proxy from CloudFlare (this information is easy to find, if you have the right tools - CloudFlare owns the IP addresses that community.gaytorrent.ru points to).
And therein lies the reason for the CloudFare product (technically: a reverse proxy) to begin with: That information is easily readable through any number of Internet Resources!
But, in addition to protecting the identity (and actual architecture) of the system owner(s), the CloudFlare service also allows for there to be multiple paths to the same server(s). (To wit: I happen to be in Fla (USA), and so the IPs that community.gaytorrent.ru points to for me are in Miami... if you're not near me, the IPs for you will be different!)
This multi-pathing allows the service to protect the actual system(s) from DOS and DDOS attacks, as well as many kinds of "regional" Internet outages. It also prevents you from learning the actual, physical location of the actual server(s) hosting their client's system(s).
CloudFlare is a common, well regarded service. To my knowledge,it is used by over 1,000,000 websites (you might recognize some other companies that use it: lyft, tinder, & udemy, just to name a few).
Also, this isn't Rocket Science - there are plenty of competitors to CloudFlare!
The problem the site is having is random and haphazard - thus, it appears that part-of CloudFlare is correctly connecting you to this site... and part is not!
One final note: CloudFlare (and others like it) are often criticized by the Nanny-State: Proxies (technically: reverse-proxies) allow internet entities to "hide" effectively - and they can therefore be used by nefarious people... like Lyft? LOL
IMHO: Someone should tell the Nanny-State that we're adults and don't need Government Supervision!
@bengalis said in Where to find uncensored Japanese porn?:
@eobox91103 said in Where to find uncensored Japanese porn?:
Semi-related question: Why do so many Japanese films have guys (usually the tops) wearing sunglasses or weird goggles? It's rather distracting from what might otherwise be a nice scene.
Probably to hide their identity
Please understand: in some of these SE Asian countries porn is illegal - and gay porn ESPECIALLY so - so,yes.... in most cases it is to protect their identity...
Mind you, in some instances it's a fetish thing too... but usually, IMHO, it's to protect the actors from legal problems in their countries....
@raphjd
So, you're saying that, if you happened to be insanely rich, you'd fly coach ... you AND your family... in the middle of a pandemic. If that's your claim, then I say: Prince Harry shows intelligence in his decision making in the real world that you fail to do in your imaginary one.
I'm sorry, the hypocrite is the Governor (I think it was a Governor) who told everyone to stay at home for the holidays, then flew off to his family's holiday gathering.
FWIW: If I recall rightly, it was a DEMOCRATIC Governor... he should have resigned. That was just a TOTAL abuse of power.
The AIDS activist marching for laws requiring safer sex practices whose Grindr profile says "bareback only" is hypocritical.
The minister preaching about the sins of homosexuality - while he's secretly flowing the alter-boys after church - is hypocritical.
The guy from the porn site requesting that people not upload videos from his site, while having a history of downloading multiple GB of porn videos himself (presumably from OTHER producers, naturally) - is hypocritical.
Rich people have the right to spend their money. That's not being hypocritical. Prince Harry didn't tell others not to travel, and he doesn't have the power to make rules against it.
Perfectly legitimate to complain that he's flying around with his family on the British tax-payers's dime... except that he isn't! He's given up the Royal allowance! He's just a rich snob! No power, no rules to set. Just a rich bloke that TONS of people care about because of the rest of his family (including his wife).
-- EDIT--
For those who don't want to follow the Twitter link: it's a posting about Prince Harry flying his family on a private plane and saying he did so to protect his family.
I could as a teen - and it earned me about $5k in college tuition money (I did some porn)... I could get about half into my mouth comfortably - if I pushed hard, I could get to the root!
I could suck myself off back then - these days (maybe because of that) I'm VERY hard to get off orally.
I lost the ability to suck myself in my 30's.... 
@lololulu19 said in I see the list of files from the .torrent files but cannot download:
@justanedflan it looks like Qbittorrent is able to download that torrent without renaming the files first. I know from experience that Utorrent chokes on filenames like that. Even though it DOES work.. I still suggest renaming those files so that when you seed them, your seeds work with people who are using torrent clients that are not accomodating to "special characters"
I have suggested that GTRU should automatically replace "special characters" with normal ones.
So there is a basic problem with what you propose there:
So the example above, where someone suggested changing the names on your end to help out others.... not so much: The filename on your end is the new/corrected/simpler filename, but the filename in the torrent remains the same as what the uploader provided.
One final comment: sometimes these special characters arise out of translations from a user's system having been set to, say Korean language... Then the torrents show the filenames in the character-set that is "normal" to your system.
Long story short: use your Torrent Client (qBitTorrent or uTorrent have been mentioned here) to change the filenames on your system so that you can use the files more easily locally, and yet STILL seed the torrent and maintain your ratio!
@shoffmanp said in Hello there!:
Hello! I'm Philip. I used to have an account on GT a long time ago but it was deleted. Now I have to start all over again. I remember the site had a straight section where I could find many hot chubby guys. I kinda miss it now! Whatever happened to it?
We still allow STR8 content... when you do a SEARCH for content, there are check-boxes that should include "Straight-Younger" and "Straight-Older"...
If you don't see these, look at your profile: there is an option to HIDE them, which may have been checked.
Good Luck!
@nikgl said in Seeding issues (((:
Ok, I created a torrent file, then uploaded and filled everything to the Upload page.
Then I re-download the recently uploaded torrent file and launch it to start seeding. But the torrent program (Folx) doesn't start checking the folder with files to start seeding.
What's the problem? Could you help me please??
So, there are 2 options:
The torrent client ALREADY HAS the torrent (some do that when they CREATE the torrent. Because it was already there, and because it's a "private" torrent, the trackers aren't "merged" so only the original (useless) one remains.
TO FIX: Delete the torrent (being CAREFUL to NOT DELETE the DATA!) in your client, then re-download from the site
The torrent client does not see the files that makeup the torrent in your default download location... you need to tell the torrent client WHERE the file(s) already exist. Otherwise, it thinks this is a new download.
TO FIX: Delete the torrent (being CAREFUL to NOT DELETE the DATA!) in your client, then re-download from the site - and point your client to the RIGHT location of where you file(s) actually exist!
@raphjd
If you think I've tried to insult you, you've taken my postings far too personally - and I apologize. I don't mean to insult anyone.... but I also don't think pointing out flaws in your arguments is insulting you! Especially since most of your arguments come from conservative radio & tv personalities.
Well, I assume that's there you get them. i could be wrong. Still:
When I deride the anti-Romney talk-show-host because he's portraying guilt by association, I'm not attacking you personally, even though you did post the link yourself.
Likewise, when I deride your doing the same thing - attempting to link The Lincoln Project to a sex offender, in spite of the fact that they denounced him and his actions within 24-hours of being notified... again, a bold attempt at guilt by association
And I cried foul in both cases.
I have asked you repeatedly to identify this concept of "Due Process" that Betsy DeVos supposedly restored... to no avail.
The only real attempt to expel any member of Congress has come against the nutball Marjorie Taylor Greene - and its not for voting on or about the Electoral College - no, it's for actively calling for the assassination of elected, US, public officials.
Sure there have been motions - there are 1000's of idiotic motions made by the 535 members of Congress every year. Most get absolutely no traction. The above referenced nut-job congresswoman also filed a motion to impeach Joe Biden - before he even signed his first Executive Order!
You are perfectly correct in noting that there have been attempts to refute electoral college votes in the past - by Dems and Republicans alike. It's a part of the process. Truly NONE has ever come close to passing.
However, the whole idea is a mis-reading of the law and Constitution: the governing rules stem from the Civil War, when some states sent multiple slates of delegates to the Electoral College in an attempt to de-legitimize the election of Lincoln (or anyone else, for that matter). The intent of the rules was to give Congress the ability to deal with MULTIPLE slates of electors, not to just toss-out perfectly legitimate, approved delegates from States. We need to clarify this intention - and there's no time like the present!
My most intense orgasms come when I've already cum inside my partner and we've flipped... I've got him inside of me... I can often time my SECOND orgasm with his... to he's pumping deep into me while I'm spewing all in between us!
That second shot is always more intense than the first!
@kamyk said in Attempting to download a torrent, same porn two torrents, both halfway done then says dead no seeds:
@john32123666 I know donation is optional. Somehow, in spite of asking about this company around 4 days ago, I missed the freelech. There are dozens of seeders right now. My ratio is ok at the moment, and I'm only downloading 24gbs of the torrent. Not missing the boat again whether I have to donate again or not. I'd just spend the money on cigarettes anyway.
hmmm... spend the money on cigs (hurting your lungs, but getting the short-lived nicotine buzz), or on keeping your dick happy for weeks to come (or: weeks to cum)...
You chose wisely, grasshopper!
@yummyboobs said in Hey guys!:
Hi call me L!
Just wanted to introduce myself and shoot my shot here. I'm 28 bi chubby (full man boobs) and love chatting, especially role play.
I'm extremely picky when it comes to porn so you'll have personally ask me for my faves but I do prefer porn with minimum or no plot, mutual oral, and preferably an internal creampie.
I'm a vers top and enjoy being a top... Most of the time. I'm open to almost anything from twinks to daddies and even kinks from feet and extreme stuff like scat (only when I'm a dom). My main limit is more than one person in bed because I enjoy giving all of my attention to the person I'm with.
Feel free to send a message anytime
Welcome to the Forums!
However, while I appreciate the sharing - especially about your porn tastes - this isn't a forum for (and I don't think there is even a board in the forum for) actually meeting people.
There are places on the Forum for almost anything - but meeting up doesn't appear to be one (idea? maybe - but given the low numbers and geographical dispersion, I don't really think so)...
Anyway, welcome - I look forward to reading your inputs!
@lololulu19 said in Upload privileges revoked for 90 days?:
@DandyLion If someone has a question about DMCA, they can always check the website which is a massive catalog of ALL copyrights so they don't upload anything that has a copyright. Nothing I have ever uploaded has a copyright.
https://coccatalog.loc.gov/
Your assumption that a copyright has to be registered, in the same way a patent, or a trademark, is registered, is incorrect.
A copyrightable work is protected by copyright laws the moment it is created and fixed in a material form. Registering your work is voluntary, but can be beneficial. Registration legally sets a "creation date" (in case someone claims parallel creation), as well as establishing your intent to defend your copyright protections.
You have erroneously claimed (multiple times) here on these forums that porn cannot be copyrighted... I have referenced here before - on multiple occasions - that the site CorbinFisher.com went through a spell where they were suing illegal downloaders and getting large judgements against defendants!
A company called Strike 3 was subsequently hired by a few porn companies to "aggressively assert their DMCA rights" and filed THOUSANDS of complaints. While most of those were thrown out by lower courts, in 2020 Appellate Courts reinstated them!
Read here...
You also pointed out in your post that Asia Argento "also knowingly got Jimmy Bennet (a minor at the time) drunk and raped him."
The fact that you're a victim does not exclude you from the possibility of also being a perpetrator. Come on.
Geez... I'd sure love to live a few hours in your world, where everything is black and white: you're a victim OR a perp. You're 100% right, or 100% wrong. Liberal or Trumpite.
Life would be so easy for you if we realists would just stop interfering!
