Posts made by bi4smooth

What you want to see in a VPN provider is:

• lots of different servers to choose from
• dedicated servers (vs. VPS servers)
• a no-logging pledge

how to stay anonymous:

• Pay with a "cash card" or in BitCoin (or other untraceable funds)
• Change servers frequently - once a week is usually enough
• Ensure that your DNS searches are private - not just your p2p! (Personally, I keep the entire system behind the VPN!)

To what some people are claiming about ports and open/forwarding: if you use an advanced server that actually overtly supports p2p (like NordVPN), you don't need to worry about this... they can see the port you advertise in your client, and they will forward it over your VPN link (and yes, that means you DO NOT need to open the port on your local router!)

So I have to post about this - because, contrary to your proposition that if the races were reversed, that the media would have covered it more, I can tell you that this happens far too often - regardless of the races involved, and the media coverage is poor regardless.

... and it NEVER gets the attention that it deserves! And I am sometimes literally brought to tears to hear the stories of some of these poor children...

You see.... I am an adoptive parent (I adopted 7 - yes, you read that right, SEVEN) children from foster care... and as a result, I served for nearly 20 years on the board of our local foster parents association. I actually have known "offenders" - and their victims - before this kind of tragic event occurred. It never ceases to break my heart to hear just how badly these adults have failed the little children ... these adults weren't coerced or forced to adopt - they volunteered! and then to fail these kids so badly!

There is a new circle of hell for these people... end even that isn't bad enough!

But to the point of your note: these stories are always buried. As a society, we don't like to be reminded of how poorly we treat our "indigent" children.

@jeffl said in Qbittorrent is now better than Utorrent:

Glad to hear that the client is improving. What has always stopped me from using qBitorrent is the lack of the relocate feature that uTorrent has. I have moved and renamed the majority of most seeded torrents, and there isn't enough value in trying to workaround that when uT still works.

If you don't know what I'm talking about, this has been discussed on GitHub for 8+ years. Hopefully one day the feature gets picked up by someone .

qBitTorrent has the option to "set location" on any torrent... It can be a little "buggy" if you've changed the file locations "under the covers" - but if you let it do the work, I've even relocated torrents of 50+GB successfully!

• Highlight your torrent (e.g. select it), right-click, and choose "Set Location...."

There (sadly) isn't a consistent use of terms across clients... That makes helping people really hard sometimes! Still, while the "stalled" label has a negative connotation that utorrent's "idle" does not have, the "stalled" status is for a file that's still downloading, but there are no seeders currently available... to me, that IS a negative condition LOL.

However, when a file is "finished" in qBitTottent its status becomes either "Seeding" or "Completed" - and those make sense to me...

I will repeat: the biggest reason that I, personally, use qBitTorrent is because it's the same on Windows, MacOS, and Linux! For someone (like me) who works on all platforms, that's a really nice thing to have LOL!

Sorry for my delay, but I had something come up and I haven't been online for a while...

So if I'm hearing you right (and that's a stretch LOL), you're not getting me... so, I'm going to provide more detail in the hopes that that you might understand. If I'm wrong, then no real harm - I just wasted a lot of time typing!

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So, you create your .torrent file in uTorrent... I'll call it a.torrent (original, no?)... and because you followed directions, you listed the tracker within uTorrent as http://tracker.gaytorrent.ru:2710/announce.

What you probably don't know, is that that URL doesn't actually work! That's actually a string that the tracker software replaces to ensure that your torrent is tracked to your account. This is because this is a PRIVATE torrent tracker! We don't accept torrents from anyone but our members! It is also needed to help manage your upload/download numbers.

So - back to your upload... you have uploaded your "won't-work-like-that" a.torrent file to the tracker... and, along with the other things you included on the upload page, it created a whole web page, just for your torrent! Just one thing though: the a.torrent file you download from that web page IS NOT the same a.torrent file that you uploaded! It's been changed: the tracker entry now is unique to your account (and it will actually work!).

So here we are now: your uTorrent program has your a.torrent "seeding" to a non-existent tracker, nand GT.ru has an a.torrent with no seeders! (If we leave it like this, you get mad because your torrent doesn't seed, and GT.ru staff get mad because your upload has no seeder!)

The fix is the oft-overlooked last step: you need to "scape" your new torrent!

"Scraping" is when you download a torrent for content you already have, generally so that you can begin to seed it immediately (you don't need to download it - you already have it!).

NOTE: This is ALSO how you re-seed a torrent you previously downloaded!

So, when you finished uploading your a.torrent file and page to GT.ru, it took you immediately to that new page - and TOLD YOU that you needed to re-download your torrent! (Technically, as I showed above, you need to scrape your torrent - with the NEW a.torrent file!)

BUT! Before you do! Since you're using uTorrent, you very well MAY ALREADY HAVE a.torrent in your client... seeding with that bogus tracker URL! You need to delete this one (but do NOT delete the content!), and replace it with the one from the new page on GT.ru!

ALSO: When you scrape your new a.torrent file, you will need to tell your uTorrent client WHERE the data file is stored on your computer. It may default to that location, but in most cases not. If you attempt to scrape your new torrent, and instead of "checking" your torrent, you attempt to "dowload" your torrent - then you specified the wrong location. (I do this more often than I care to admit! Just delete the torrent in your client and start the scrape again!)

So EVEN when things work, there may be some glitches... for example: often when I scrape a torrent (I use qBitTorrent, not uTorrent), it won't immediately seed... HOWEVER, if I then ask the client (qBitTorrent for me) to "recheck" the file, it seeds properly.

That's a LOT of detail.... I hope you found it useful

@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!

@muscleslut3 said in downloads missing:

i just made an account here, but i can't figure out how to do anything - whenever i open the torrents tab, it just takes me back to the front page. tried on multiple browsers. any help?

When you click the torrents tab, you go to the homepage for the torrent "side" of the site (the Forum being the other "side")...

Once you're on the "torrent" side (URL is https://www/gaytorrent.ru, where the forum is https://community.gaytorrent.ru), you will then need to click on the Torrents drop-down at the top... most people choose the top: Search

From there, you'll see plenty of torrents to download.

Happy hunting!

@bradinyyz said in Not connecting to peers - qBittorrent for Mac:

I'm hoping for some help on what to do next in trying to fix this issue.

Issue: For new torrents that I am seeding on here, I can see peers as part of the swarm (the number in brackets), but they for the most part cannot connect to me (so the number before the bracket is 0). Eventually someone is able to find me and the uploading begins (but most peers still remain unconnected to me).

If it's working for some, then it's working. Your "offering" of the torrent you're seeding is along-side of multiple others. I don't know the method that clients use to "select" peers to connect to, but I suspect it includes ping times... and if that's the case, your going through a proxy will make your ping responses slow (or non-existent)... thus, some torrent clients may only be connecting to you "as a last resort" -- I don't know this for a fact, it's just conjecture... I don't write code for torrent clients!

Still, if it works for one, it works for others - you're just not getting many client connects (mind you, I also operate behind a VPN reverse-proxy, and I also have issues with "not seeding much" - but I've worked with other torrent sites on this: it does NOT appear to be an issue with the torrent server - I am listed! It's an issue with the client systems just not choosing to connect to my system out of the list of peers!

My set-up:

Running qBittorent 4.3.4.1 on Big Sur (11.2.3).

I also use qBittorrent - both Win and Linux versions... I'm a very happy camper and even donated some $$ to their cause!

On my router (Netgear), I have port forwarded the port in the 50,000 range to my computer. I also forwarded 1080 for the Proxy Server (I don't know if that was necessary or not)

Port 1080 is an outbound connection for you - you do not need the port forwarded on your router.

On CanYouSeeMe.org, when testing the port in the 50K range it gives an error with "Reason: Connection refused". Testing other ports gives the error "Reason: Connection timed out", which makes me think that the port is open fine on the router, but there's something on the Mac side that is causing the issue.

Your MAC also has a firewall built into it... I don't know the commands to fix that, but yes: you may be right there.

In Linux (a cousin to MacOS), there is an lsof command to see what ports are being listened on:
lsof -i -P | grep LISTEN
gives me a succinct list of the ports where someone/something is listening.

I'm certain there is an equivalent to the MAC, I just don't know it off the top of my head.

Good luck! I hope some part of this reply helps...

@raphjd said in Qbittorrent is now better than Utorrent:

@lololulu19

I still use uTorrent 2.2.1 as that was the last version that was made without the tons of bloat uTorrent is now well known for. I love the features it has and the layout, but it is extremely old and doesn't handle RAM and CPU very well.

I guess I'll give QBitTorrent another try.

You won't like it - that's the client that I use!

All kidding aside, I prefer qBitTorrent because it runs on multiple platforms (Windows, MacOS, and Linux) in virtually identical ways on each. It also does everything I want it to - EXCEPT work with "Quick Torrent Maker" here ...

OK, pardon my saying so, but you're making a mountain out of a mole-hill here... this REALLY couldn't be simpler!

Thank you for providing link... let's start with the first one:
Gay Zombie (2007).mp4

For the sake of an example, let's make 2 assumptions:

1. You saved the file in a location I'll call PATH1:
   c:/users/<your name>/Movies/Gay/Horror/Gay Zombie (2007).mp4
2. Your uTorrent program is set to download files to a different location, I'll call PATH2:
   c:/users/<your name>/Downloads

The FAST answer to your question (no explanations) is this:

• Download the .torrent file (click the download link on the site)
• Open the .torrent file with uTorrent (this may happen automatically)
• CHANGE the Save At (aka: "Save To" or "Destination") folder to PATH1: c:/users/<your name>/Movies/Gay/Horror
• Click "OK" or "Start" or whatever it is on uTorrent
• The client should, instead of adding the file with a status of "Downloading" should add the file with a status of "Checking" and then, quickly move to 'Seeding"

Let me know if you need a more detailed answer with more explanations... but this is exactly how you would download any other torrent - except for the step where you change the "Save At" folder!

@qvamp said in How do you re-connnect an old torrent?:

@bi4smooth I feel like you're making a statement to everyone else, but aren't helping me. I HAVE THE ORIGINAL CONTENT BECAUSE I UPLOADED IT! AndI have a lot more content too. For that I uploaded before I'd like to reconnect the original torrents both because people know they're there, and because people uploaded images and the like.

Also, the biggest problem you said I said here isn't anything I said. I do appreciate your help, really, but I'm pretty sure I'm in a less-common category than who you're speaking to.

If you want to, paste the link to the torrent you're trying to re-link to, I'll try to help you with specifics, vs. the "general case"...

@qvamp said in How do you re-connnect an old torrent?:

@bi4smooth I feel like you're making a statement to everyone else, but aren't helping me. I HAVE THE ORIGINAL CONTENT BECAUSE I UPLOADED IT! AndI have a lot more content too. For that I uploaded before I'd like to reconnect the original torrents both because people know they're there, and because people uploaded images and the like.

Also, the biggest problem you said I said here isn't anything I said. I do appreciate your help, really, but I'm pretty sure I'm in a less-common category than who you're speaking to.

I'm sorry if you think my caveats about still having the contents means I'm not replying to you, but I *am trying to help you. However, I've answered this question for others before - and have, in the past, had people get angry with me because it didn't work... which it will work - 100% of the time - IF all of the files are already there when you point your client to the existing files.

Mind you, I've also had cases where the filenames didn't quite match - if this happens, just delete the torrent in your client (being careful NOT to delete the actual data files), rename the files to what the .torrent file is expecting to see, then re-scrape it again!

Like I said above - it REALLY IS this easy - because scraping a torrent is actually the final step in the upload process to begin with!

@qvamp said in How do you re-connnect an old torrent?:

@bi4smooth is it that easy if you moved the files to a new folder? Last time, I didn't plan on keeping them there forever, and ultimately deleted them. This time I'd like to be better about it and am moving the files to a special 'upload' folder (using utorrent)

Yes, it's that easy...

IF YOU STILL HAVE THE CONTENTS OF THE TORRENT!

You mention the biggest problem in your reply above: people often remove older material (often, to make room for new!)

The area this presents the BIGGEST problem is when you only download (or still have) a PORTION of a multi-file download... for the "scrape" to work, you need to have all parts in all the right places.

Your comment above also aligns with my personal practice: I keep my uploaded files in a separate folder so that I don't accidentally delete them!

Mind you, if you're going to scrape your torrent, you cannot have auto-start and auto-add both set on your torrent client! Otherwise, you would have to have those original files EXACTLY where the auto-start feature would have put them.

If the torrent is still on the tracker, but is just dead (no seeders, no leechers) - e.g.: you can still SEARCH for it, but you have to use the "including dead" option on the right), then you can start to re-seed the file simply by re-downloading the .torrent, and then pointing the client to the already-present file.

The "techincal" term for this is "scraping" the file - that is, you download the torrent, but already HAVE the content, so your client winds up CHECKING the torrent (vs. downloading it), and almost instantly starts SEEDING it.

NOTE: This is EXACTLY what happens when you UPLOAD a torrent here!

You upload a .torrent file to the tracker, but the tracker has to make CHANGES to the file, so you have to download the MODIFIED .torrent file, and "scrape" it in order to start seeding it!

The entire site underwent some maintenance earlier today.

I believe the whole of the British Empire - old and new, including the anti-monarchist United States - shares in the grief and sorrow of Queen Elizabeth II, and the rest of the British Royal Family.

May he rest in peace, and may the Royal Family find solace in the fact that he is no longer in physical pain.

@blablarg18

I use NordVPN - which officially not only supports P2P (peer to peer) connections, it has special servers setup for it!

I have found that, while using NordVPN, so long as my "advertised" port is open (the port in your torrent client), I have no trouble seeding.

I cannot imagine a more personal decision to have or make.

Some things to consider about circumcision:

• It is primarily a cultural and/or religious decision (e.g.: it is a ritual part of the Jewish religion, very common in Islam, and previously was a highly-common cultural practice in America (US)... although the percentages in the US are down to about 50%, and continue to drop ca. 2021).
• Because it is/was a US Cultural preference, there are all kinds of false reports of benefits to circumcision (increased sensitivity, health/safety benefits, claims that women prefer circumcised, even reports that children who were circumcised grew larger penises!) - the vast majority of these reports in favor of circumcision are false or misleading (for example: report of circumcised men having fewer health concerns than uncircumcised ones are usually based on conditions that are easily resolved by simply teaching young boys HOW to clean their penis - the same way young girls have to learn HOW to care for their vaginas to prevent health problems).
• There are some (rare) medical conditions for which circumcision is the preferred treatment.
• There is ABSOLUTELY NO consensus world-wide - even in medical communities - about whether there are medical benefits to being or not-being circumcised.

Long story short: if it was done to you as a child/baby, you don't have a say. Sorry, but blame your parents, or pediatrician, or religious leader...
If it was NOT done to you as a baby, you can choose to have this done to you... but really, why?

In case you're wondering, as a 50+ year old white US citizen, I was circumcised as a baby. I've never known anything different. But, I have known 2 men who have had the procedure done AS ADULTS, and both later regretted it. (Your mileage may vary, of course).

See my post on this topic here.

@pupbrace

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!

Just to add my 2-cents worth - I had this happen to me once, and it turned out that the older torrent, by the time it was looked at, was essentially dead: no seeders and no leechers. So they deleted the ORIGINAL, which made my duplicate report "invalid" (according to the explanation I was given).