The admins speak…
Hi all 
I thought it would be fun to play another game together..
This time it’s the great game Trackmania Nations.
Download the game here, here or from a HTTP mirror.
After you have downloaded and installed the game, you can find it in the server list @ NED with the name “Mininova Trackmania Server!”.
Alternatively, you can connect to “etc.mininova.org”. For more info on how to connect to a specific IP, take a look here.
Greetz 
Some time after we started mininova there were a few people that thought that uploading spam torrents would be a good idea to advertise their “GET A FREE XBOX 360” links (or PSP, or HDTV, or well you get the point ;)).
At this time we banned 3651 people (some of which are people who received multiple bans). To see if some country has more (persistant) spammers than others, I decided to compare some statistics.
If you compare these percentages with the number of visitors:
You notice France ( ) doing a great job and Germany probably has a few nasty spammers (or they have more of those “free stuff” sites).
These stats actually prove nothing but hey, statistics are always fun :).
The piecharts are generated using the cool php script from peters1.dk. (Gnuplot, which is used for all the graphs on mininova.org, doesn’t support piecharts)
Today is a sad day for our friends at The Pirate Bay. This morning, the Swedish police took down all TPB servers (Stockholm traffic graphs). Additionally, it is reported that two or three TPB admins are held in police custody.
Although we and TPB guys have a totally different view on copyrights, this is certainly not what they deserved. That the MPAA thinks differently, is not a big surprise.
If you want to stay up-to-date on the situation, please bookmark this URL.
A final note: due to all these struggles, we might experience some downtime. One of the reasons is that more users visit Mininova now that TPB is down. We try to place an extra server as soon as possible.
Update (June 3): And TPB is back up & running! Hopefully they’re safer here
Today we hit the 400 million torrent downloads mark!
Considering that our site is running for 16 months, this number is a great achievment. That means we’ve got almost one million average downloads per day. If we take a look at the statistics of the last few days, we see that the amount of downloaded torrents is still increasing (almost 1.5 million downloads per day currently).
Thanks guys & gals for sticking with us! We’re looking forward for the next big mark.
Just a quick post to get the old one off the fp ;p.
After having some problems, everything is working great again. And the speed is very good, so no more frustrations in the evening and having to wait minutes before the page loads :).
It was supposed to happen last friday, however due to some problems it’s scheduled for today. Hopefully the relocation it won’t take too long and without problems.
Update: The relocation has been delayed, again. It’s planned for tomorrow now. Stay tuned!
Update: The upgrade is completed! Enjoy the new and fast mininova
Update: Well it seemed to be working anyway :p, still having some weird problems but we are working on it!
Final Update: Everything should be up and running like it is suppose to be! :))
As you might have noticed, we’ve been kinda slow during the evenings. So today we are getting an extra server :)!
However this will mean some downtime as the other servers will be moved to a new rack (and get different ip addresses).
It could take up to 60 minutes for the dns servers to update. We also have to install the new server so the change will probably be noticeable tomorrow (or sooner if everything goes well).
Update: The upgrade will probably take place after the (busy) weekend, so stay tuned!
Some small improvements we made the last couple of days.
Frontpage (Erik + Niek):
The frontpage now lists the 10 most downloaded torrents for each category for the last 24 hours. We think this is more usefull than the 10 latest torrents.
(for all people who still don’t get it, the today page is the same as the old frontpage and can even be set as your default frontpage in your settings).
Search RSS feed (Erik):
The page with search results now contains a link to the RSS feed for that search. This is a easy way to monitor if there are new search results.
Search caching (Erik):
Turned on search caching, I forgot to turn it on with the previous update. Search should be a little faster again now.
RSS feeds (Erik):
The category and subcategory pages now contain a RSS feed column with a link to their RSS feeds.
Search Cloud (Jos):
Jos has made the search cloud look much better and came up with a better formula to calculate the word size and color.
Frontpage Improvements (Niek):
Niek made some improvements to the frontpage such as the “Show all of today →” link for each category.
Better caching (Erik):
I have improved the frontpage and search cloud caching which should lower the sql server load and improve the load time of these pages.
Labs (Erik):
As requested I have created an RSS feed for the mininova labs. Note that we don’t often add new things, but I’ll try to increase this.
Uploads Graph (Erik):
There is now a graph containing the number of torrents uploaded each day. It is added to to the graph section of our stats.
Hope you all like this updates. I have reactivated my World Of Warcraft account and made a new character (Firik, NE druid on Al’ Akir) so don’t expect any more updates from me any time soon 
