movies.io
Consumer and social
movie torrent search
SHOW HN2012
550points
487comments
#4of 1,677 in 2012
Top 1%of 2012 by points
How HN took it
MixedNo clear lean
27 positive, 48 neutral or asking, 10 mixed, 48 critical, out of 133 comments about the project. Thread score -0.18.
Design: 15 for, 9 againstIdea: 7 for, 14 againstExecution: 0 for, 17 againstPrivacy: 0 for, 2 againstPricing: 0 for, 1 against
The thread, comment by comment
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What HN said
What people liked
Clean minimalist interface
From 1 comment
Just heard of torrentbutler a few hours ago. It's interesting, and gets a few things right, but it's not what we're going for. Hopefully the minimalist side of movies.io attracts…
nddrylliog on HN
Objections
Results include wrong or bad-quality torrents
From 2 comments
Definitely: some results are wrong. We're working from text data, so it's kinda inaccurate sometimes. We plan to develop our own crawler (instead of relying on other search…
nddrylliog on HNOur algorithm tries to things: to flag the bad torrents so they're not displayed, and to not penalize the rare torrents you get for old/unpopular movies. Moon has bad results…
nddrylliog on HN
Piracy concerns about a torrent search for movies
From 2 comments
> Not doing ads, tracking you, trying to sell your data elsewhere: check With the absence of a "not" there, it's not quite clear whether you're telling the truth or not, but a…
white_devil on HN...but it's called movies.io.
kcbanner on HN
Trailers are poor quality
From 2 comments
TMDb link to some trailers, but the quality is quite poor. We want a good solution or none at all.
nddrylliog on HNThe TMDb API links mostly to YouTube trailers. Of the ones I tried, 1/3 were online but 480p at best, 1/3 were simply offline, and 1/3 were unavailable due to country…
nddrylliog on HN
Requests
Show release names by default
From 2 comments
Ordering by date is a good idea, although maybe unpractical? ('relevance' is the criterion right now). And, agreed, relying on tooltips for critical info is not good. But, again:…
nddrylliog on HNHover over the 'download' link and you'll see the full release name :)
nddrylliog on HN
Power user settings for release groups and quality
From 2 comments
Passworded torrents? Dear god, where have you been? As for poor quality etc. here's our stance: by default, the first search result should be a release of 1) reasonable quality…
nddrylliog on HNPower users are not well served with this version of movies.io Results are usually "pretty good", but that's nowhere satisfying for a connoisseur such as yourself. We're working…
nddrylliog on HN
Subtitle and alternate language options
From 1 comment
More importantly, it matters that the first result is a the cleanest rip possible in english. We'll add a dropdown for alternative languages etc., and subtitles, but we got to…
nddrylliog on HN
Questions
Will it lead to legal trouble?
From 1 comment
Thankfully France is not the only french-speaking country. Don't be surprised: I'm taking this "fuck it, we need to do something" approach. We've been trying to get heard by…
nddrylliog on HN
Alternatives named
Torrentz
From 2 comments
Ah, fair point. The Torrentz guy seems paranoid indeed (lots of disclaimers everywhere) but that seems to serve him well, it's been online for 8 years. Also, hamsters!…
nddrylliog on HNThe TMDb API v3 is good. We're scraping Torrentz for the results, might do our own indexing later. Oh, and "his".
nddrylliog on HN
Torrent Butler
From 1 comment
Just heard of torrentbutler a few hours ago. It's interesting, and gets a few things right, but it's not what we're going for. Hopefully the minimalist side of movies.io attracts…
nddrylliog on HN
Vuze
From 1 comment
Vuze (Azureus) has a 'Media Server' plug-in which works very nicely, even with 1080p movies. They intentionally bury it, though, because 'play now' is their premium offering (a…
nddrylliog on HN
Netflix
From 1 comment
Yup, that seems to be a stupid policy. Anyway, linking to Netflix/others is nice in theory but clutters the interface. Until we find a good solution for that, we won't do it.
nddrylliog on HN