As you might know, all our RSS feeds point to the “General info” pages of torrents. However, this is not very convenient when using our feeds in combination with torrent clients that require direct links to the .torrent files. We got quite a few mails from people that asked for an option to let the RSS feed link directly to the .torrent files.
So how do you change your feed to point to the .torrent instead of the “General info” page? Well, all you have to do is add “?direct” (when it’s the first “argument”) or “&direct” to your RSS feed!
So the global feed would become (note the question mark):
http://www.mininova.org/rss.xml?direct
All other cases require a ampersand:
http://www.mininova.org/rss.xml?cat=8&direct
Even though this flag was around for quite some time, not many people probably knew about it, hopefully this post changes that 
After having quite some issues earlier tonight we made some source code changes. This proved to be a bad strategy (we didn’t test these changes enough) and we ended up with a corrupted database. We are restoring a backup as we speak, but many of the torrents uploaded today are probably lost. We are going to try and restore those as well, but our first priority is to restore the backup of this morning.
If you uploaded torrents today, please re-upload them again as soon as we are up and running again.
Sorry for the inconvenience and thanks for understanding!
Instant update: We’re up again! Minus all torrents of today, unfortunately…
Until now it wasn’t very intuitive to search in a specific category. The only way was to go to advanced search and select the category you were interested in.
We now added a fast and simple way to switch to a different category after a search (as most people tend to use the search form that’s on top of every page).
In case you encounter any errors please let us know and we’ll try to fix them as soon as possible!
On a side note, just in case some people didn’t know, you can also use the “-” operator in your searches. For example if you search for “linux” but don’t want to see any of the server distributions, include a “-server” to your search (“linux -server”), and all torrents with server in their name will be excluded!
Yes people, that’s not a joke! Today we hit the one billion (1,000,000,000) torrent downloads mark!
There are just a few days left till we’re going to celebrate our second anniversary, so the timing couldn’t be any better 
In May last year we wrote about the 400M downloads mark, so in less than 8 months we counted 600M downloads.
Of course this is not the end! Looking at the counter, we see another few million downloads per day coming in, and increasing.
Thanks everyone for sticking with us! Stay tuned for the next big mark