@zullu Yes, the tracker seems to be non-responsive for me too.

@turlough I've been experiencing similar issues since the last 3-4 days. I'm using qBittorrent via VPN so it's unlikely that your setup is at fault. It's more likely that there has been a configuration change in the DoS protection for the tracker preventing so many of us from connecting. It's hard to imagine an actual DoS attack lasting so long (although I don't know this for sure).

@MrMazda Have server-side changes been looked at so far (the entire stack from the DDoS protection to the actual tracker service)? To my mind, there has been sufficient evidence to indicate that none of the affected users have changed anything in their client.

I'm down to seeding barely 100 torrents down from approximately 16,000, and I'm seeing a steady uptick in the number of reseed requests since the start of the outage. If a fix is not found soon, I plan to stop seeding entirely for the time being.

@vashkevron From what I can tell, it appears to be overeager DoS protection. For instance, if I switch between different VPN servers, things suddenly start working again for the first few minutes before dying back down.

It is good that the issue has been acknowledged finally.

Besides the immediate fix, it would be very useful if the admins could come up with one or more steps to more conclusively determine that the server/tracker is at fault in the future. Anything that avoids the unnecessary tug-of-war that transpired over the last 2 weeks as we tried to convince folks that there is a problem with the tracker and not with individual user clients.

Regrettably, some users ended up resetting their passkeys in the false hopes of a quick fix - another thing that could have been avoided by a quicker acknowledgement of the issue than the 10 days it took here.

Would it be possible to take action against this trolling uploader? They don't seem to have stopped. Within the last month, they have created 20+ new torrents with the obscure "big white boy" moniker.

@spiffyweasel-0 Also, nothing has changed in my client+VPN setup for the last ~3 months so it's unlikely to be an issue we (the users) can fix.

@DirtyNick same here, nothing has been resolved yet. Since you reset your passkey, you'll need to redownload every torrent to start seeding again.

@jokuihmemies all modern browsers (Chrome, Firefox, Edge, ...) have page translation built-in, so that hurdle can be easily crossed.

@spiffyweasel-0 Previous reports of similar issues (in the last 3-4 days): https://community.gaytorrent.ru/topic/64819/a-connection-attempt-failed-in-download

clicking on any link on the site now takes me to urlrw.com, which is basically just a front to advertise their products. it doesn't subsequently redirect me to the actual link i clicked on on the site.

can we please get rid of this fake redirection or replace urlrw.com with another link redirector that actually works? alternatively, if there is something i'm doing wrong here that will make this issue go away, please let me know.

@jokuihmemies all modern browsers (Chrome, Firefox, Edge, ...) have page translation built-in, so that hurdle can be easily crossed.

of course, there are also other trackers like pornolab.net that don't seem to care about dmca at all.

a recently uploaded torrent was taken down in a record ~3 hours. i'd guess the owner of this content has some special connection to the site that allows them to bypass the standard dmca workflow for reporting copyrighted material.

@ianfontinell-0 ah, thanks!

@jwpyle3 thanks, it looks like it's from twink top but something isn't adding up. the guy with the red cap in this photo isn't in that video at all.

I just figured out the ID is only partially correct. The short guy is Jack Redshaw but the tall guy is Jack Sampson from their time on Morecambe FC.

@MrMazda Thanks for the thorough job!