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@turlough And only torrents from this site, using its trackers, are affected. Public torrents are fine.

@john32123666 Yep, same here. Unfortunately, whatever steps were taken didn't resolve the issue.

@raphjd I think the hypothesis that there is an "over-eager" DDoS setting on the tracker has merit. Raph, do you really see no problems when you try to download 50 freeleech torrents at the same time? Or are you downloading one or two?

Of course normally you should only be able to connect to 15 simultaneously. But when the first of those 15 are complete, another of the red ones should be free to connect. That's not what's happening now. The system seems to detect 50 current attempted downloads and freak out, locking out all of them. Every now and then, over the course of hours, it will recognize some requests as valid. But it takes 10x as long to download 50 torrents as it used to. This is not sustainable.

For what it's worth, the freeleech torrents are particularly vulnerable. Huge clumps of them vanish, and have been for weeks. They're not DMCA takedowns, because they cover every possible category (and things that are regularly removed for DMCA are often left standing). It's almost like some infiltrator from another site has been made an admin here, and he's sabotaging the site. Just look at this list of deleted freeleech torrents, all set for freeleech to expire on 10 December, which is the only thing they had in common. The ones in green are the only ones that survived.