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I don't know about 5 years but here are my observation if it's helpful. something like this happened exactly a year ago and if followed similar pattern. somewhere in early September of 2021 there was a similar wave of torrent takedowns. In fact it was kind of worse, looked like a full on purge of fans content. it gained traction through autumn and people then noticed it too, you can probably find that thread. Just like now it got really bad through November, when torrents sometimes disappeared minutes after getting uploaded. The dialogue on the forum was similar to this one, some newer members were confused, prophesized the end of the world to the site, theories about bots sweeping this place, also dominant theory was that it was an actual person, no one was actually sending those DMCAs, but it was a specific mod tasked in controlling the situation. some user even theorized that he was an American living on a west coast based on the patterns and timings of deletions. An interesting development happened on American thanksgiving weekend, the crazy takedown wave suddenly stopped as if it never was. People in the thread theorized that the mod was having a thanksgiving holiday and will return after the weekend but nothing happened. I remember being quite happy after seeing the first torrents of December 2021, OF content and rips were posted as usual, and weren't taken down the very next day, the fan sites category wasn't targeted anymore. For some time I thought that it was too good to be true but no for a year everything was back to normal, from December all the way to September 2022. I started posting again after hiatus carefully categorized content, with description and everything. When the similar wave started now I was hoping there would be a similar pattern and it will all end in the end of November, my prediction almost came true when after this thanksgiving weekend the takedowns stopped and lots of OF content was posted in the last three days. But nope, this Monday the strict takedowns resumed. The last time everything turned nice again in the first day of December, if the situation will continue like this then I don't know. If this will be a new status quo of the site that would be a bummer, because after uploading terabytes of stuff I guess I will take a more passive role. This is all I remember about last years wave and my observations. There were of course always some studios that weren't allowed here, but nothing like this. Hope this is not permanent and December would be calmer.

I wanted to say that you can still use QTM to create torrents. after you click "upload torrent", the process is finished and nothing happens(the torrent doesn't appear in your torrent client) you just go to "my torrents" page, see that the torrent was actually created, just has zero seeders, click download and after the client checks your torrent it starts seeding it and the torrent appears on the front page. just make sure that the address of your torrent file in the client matches where the file is in your computer

@john32123666 I'm logged in with both sites ru and rent. sadly QTM hasn't been updated since 2018 so it only links up with the gaytorrent.ru address on it's login screen, there are no other options. Maybe the old address in QTM is what's causing the glitch?
Guess the manual upload is the way from now on but I'm just interested if the QTM thing will get fixed in near future. It was so much more comfortable, easier and quicker than manual upload.
Also this error didn't appear in the first week of domain name change.

Well, it's the first days of December and this thing is sadly still going on. Exactly a year ago at this time it was all hunky dory and new torrents were added like usual. Shame. Dunno what happened that time, what miracle stopped it, maybe it was an actual strict mod that got tired of working, or actually a disgruntled user, like some people around here think it is, and he was found and deleted for trolling. But it's definitely a person, no way that it is all actually sent DMCA claims from real representatives. I say it because the way stuff is deleted is kind of random, almost like a person is picking and choosing. The goal is not to delete all OF stuff but just keep its quantity to a minimum. Like if 10 torrents are uploaded to fan pages category back to back, 8-7 will be deleted but some will remain. Smaller torrents that only contain 1 file in them are not 100% safe but have higher chance of staying. It's kind of different from last year where the vibe was to eliminate everything that was posted in a FS category ever, going from newest posted to oldest. But I guess that would've cause the downfall of a site and render the category useless. Here there is a visibility that you can still post without being deleted. The fact is that the CRAZY purge of last year was gone by now, while this new more SUBTLE purge is still going on.
Reeeealy hoping that this is not a new status quo and an unnamed policy, and after some Xmas miracle we'll return to normal. I mean we did have 9 calm, unproblematic months of peace right.

I hope that Christmas miracle is actually coming because it's getting as bad as last year at this rate. Everything is getting terminated not only FS stuff. Old studio torrents from like 2016, 2015, 2014 that are reposted and are able to be freeleched are also getting deleted. You can't upload anything new and old stuff is also getting terminated(after freelech timer is over). Soon the site will become hollow. No one is sending a copyright claim on a studio porn that is on every website to view online anyway (and some of those studios no longer exist). If this goes on, the site sadly will be on a self-destruct mode in no time

Also it seems that the goal is to delete everything on all fronts. If the torrent is on Top torrents page - deleted, if it is from like 5 years ago and is freeleeching - deleted, if it's posted in fan sites category -deleted. very soon no one will be able to post anything.
By the way the whole deleting time is 8 - 9 AM USA western coast time. This is usually when everything disappears