Hi, I hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas time! I will use this blog post to share some updates with you.
First of all, the new website: it took a while, but it seems that the new server setup is working fine now. We still need to fine-tune some areas, which will happen next week. Thanks everyone for reporting bugs and glitches!
Some people noticed that specific search queries return wrong results. For example, searching on “French” only returns old torrents. We hope to fix this issue in a few days. Update January 6: this problem is solved now.
Some other people reported that searching for “bla” does not return results for torrents with the name “blabla”. This so called “prefixed searching” is not possible yet with the new searching backend (Sphinx), but we hope to have this fixed somewhere in January. Update January 8: and this problem has been solved as well.
Enough about technical issues, on to the good news: several news sources (BBC, CTV, Torrentfreak) reported that “Mininova” was the ninth most Googled term in 2006. It’s good to see our site between the top-10 most popular search terms, but it probably also means the homepage of Mininova is not very trivial to find. We promise you we’re going to work on this issue next year!
And now for something else, the guys over at BitLord have released a TV show for the BitTorrent community. Mininova also plays a prominent part being the sponsor of the Torrent Top List. The guys at BitLord told me the first episode would be a first attempt at a show so they will improve it as time goes. But I have to say, the first episode is a nice start. Make sure to download the first episode here.
OK, that’s it for now… have a nice year-end and till next time!
Good stuff.
I have been trying to figure out what the site needs and I realized it just tonight. If there were a simple way to rate the torrents as to whether or not we would suggest others download the torrent then it would make things much easier to the frequent user. I say this because more often than not the number of people seeding or even the number of times downloaded has little to do with the quality of the file in question. I use the comments section all of the time, but if it was possible to “Sort by rating” then it would make browsing much simpler. I also think it would be used more often than the comments page because if it were a simple click to rate, for example netflix, then more people would be more likely to share their views as opposed to leaving a comment. I hope you’ll take this into consideration and I hope you all have a great new year.
@Cubby: We are indeed planning to make a rating system for torrents. It might take some time before it is finished and working though.
Keep it up
I must say guys that I preferred the styling of your old site. Much cleaner, straight to the torrents, very sophisticated. I do appreciate your continued service however. Cheers.
Grate JOB.Keep it up and design more skins for the rorents
I really like it.Cheers
Hi….I’m a new user & ive d/loaded a movie & cant seem to find the password or any links to get any info regarding this ……..any help would be gratly appreciated ?
Hi. I have been an avid mininova fan as long as I have been using torrents. Mininova has been the only source for torrents for me, up unitl you guys gave the site the fresh look it deserved. But I am sorry to say this: The site has gone downhill in a major way. Now, I cant even find a file to download that has enough seeds: 0. All the files it seems have at the most 1 seeder and only a few leechers. The only exception being foreing language files which would have the most seeders and leechers. Is it just me? Do I need to change the prescription on my glasses? Perhaps I am not reading it properly. Come on guys, you are the number one site as far as providing torrent so please fix this ASAP. Is it just some technical error? Please tell me this is being fixed!!!!!!!
I huse winXP2 and Firefox and the site is extremely fast and everything works so much better than with the old site. This new site is easier on the eyesas well.
Great work guys!
The website (server) is so fast! Even in hardcore database queries the results popup in like a sec!
Keep it up!
hi,
i believe i entered mininova.org and immediately and alert was given
by norton av
its some sort of a downloader trojan using http
i hope you can look into it
regards,
chris
I totally agree with ruuddude. I’m always on mininova and it’s gone down. No seeders or leechers?? What’s up with that? well i’ll keep trying. I’m still loyal.
Regarding the update. I totally agree with it. Keep it up moderator.
Thanks for everything.
I like the changes you’ve made and the site looks really good. I have to agree with ruuddude and Royalm. I haven’t been able to download a single torrent since the last changes. I get as far as download torrent and then nothing happens. I’ve been a great fan of the site, so far.
to those complaining no seeds/leechers….
They are very much
there….the stats are just in error.
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You can place a search, but it is removed from the main site—> downloads of the day
OUPS never mind, just ignore te message above
Damn im feeling the new look and better loading time of Mininova.
Great work on the site hope it styas like this
Lookin’ good. Lookin’ real good.
Keep up the good work! Just don’t go members only or a subscription site like others out there! [……….And don’t shut shop like Napster!]
Thanks for all the good work!
hi, i like the new layout… really fresh and fast.
but the site could need some work on usability…
For example the startpage with the 10 torrents of each category. in the old layout you had the TOP 10 torrents which made it really easy to download new tv series, because the new episodes from yesterday are mostly in those top10. now its’s kinda random. and who wants to download random, bad seeded stuff?
Scrolling/searching through “all of today/yesterday” is a pain too…
Another suggestion: sort search results by number of seeds as default. this makes it easier to find good files and you dont have to scroll through alot stuff that was released for the x-th time. search for a random tv-series, click “seeds” and you’ll see. in 99% thats what people want. Same effect like in a search cloud… The more ppl seed it the higher it gets in the results.
anyway, great site! but keep it userfriendly =)
don’t like the new design. In addition, I agree with many:mininova is going down in terms of seeding and of SPEED! Everything is so slow !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I would recommend isohunt.com or moviesandsubtitles.com for a better search and faster results.
Superb !!!!!!
Mininova source again downloadable at filesoup (%$# that guy who have posted)
Admin edit: link removed, the thread has been taken down.
What is up with the site……..pages loads and says its done and all i see is a blank page.
Hmm, when a torrent gets removed (for.. whatever reason) it still gets displayed on the homepage…
Mininova really has to step up there way of removing bad or dead torrents.
Jaryth: Yeah I noticed that as well, it’s that due too caching. Probably need to link the deletion to clearing the cache. Thanks for pointing it out!
Essa é prá galera que fala português. De cá ou de lá do Atlântico.
Quem souber de sites confiáveis de legendas, por favor me indiquem. A coisa tá feia, por aqui.
Abraços e Happy New Year.
theres a trojan in the site! By simply visiting it my antivirus alerts me and my computer slows down. The only thing I can do is disconnect and scan my computer for viruses. I hate it! Can you please do something about it?
You guys are more responsible than the big corporations I deal with.
Keep up the good work
With the .com address you probably won’t be in the top 10 of google searching words anymore ;)!
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The site is running faster now than ever for me. Keep up the good work admins
Great bittorrent site! I fully appreciate the trouble you went through fine-tuning everything. I helped a friend who was working on a starcraft 2 replays site and found it a pain in the ass to just make sure the links all worked! Pfft… let alone making sure searches are being captured and registered. By the way, love that the search bar auto suggests
I’ll be downloading cooking mama for the wii shortly!