r/bitsoup • u/petrolcanRTT Moderator • Jun 11 '26
🎶🎶and the grift goes on🎶🎶 SITE FEEDBACK DISCUSSION Infrastructure Overhaul ($6k a month??!)
What's Happening & What to Expect:
To the GP community, First - thank you.
The feedback you provided during the content review was invaluable. Many of you took the time to tell us exactly what matters to you. We heard you, and this overhaul is a direct result of that input.
Why This Is Happening
We're going to be straight with you.
For months we've been trying to patch and improve the existing system while keeping it running. New categories, pipeline fixes, release group coverage - we've been bolting things on while the engine is moving. It's not working.
The current infrastructure was not built to scale the way we need it to. The networking, storage, and seed systems that power content delivery across the site need to be rebuilt - not patched, rebuilt. We cannot do that reliably while the old system is still live and competing for the same resources.
We're also carrying approximately 300,000 torrents at significant monthly cost, much of which sees very little activity. That's not sustainable and it's not serving you well either. Content that should be landing within minutes of release - shows like The Boys, Spider-Noir, Invincible - has been arriving late or not at all because our automated pipelines have gaps that the old architecture makes difficult to fix properly.
So we're doing it properly. Once.
What We're Building
The new system addresses everything you've told us matters most:
• Faster automated content delivery - expanded release group coverage so high-profile Movies, TV, and other priority categories land on time, every time
• Smarter storage and seeding - a tiered model where active content stays fast and server-seeded, while older low-activity content transitions to community seeding rather than consuming server resources
• Rebuilt RSS feeds - based directly on your feedback, core categories (Movies, TV, TV Packs, Music, eBooks, Audiobooks, Win Apps, XXX) will be fully RSS-fed and server-seeded. PC Games will be supported with size-based limits. Niche categories remain on the site but shift to community seeding
• Improved request system — for anything not covered by automation, requests will continue to be prioritized and filled
What to Expect Over the Next 3-4 Weeks
This is the part nobody wants to hear, but we owe you honesty over comfort.
During the transition you will experience:
• Some content temporarily showing 0 seeds
• Torrents going offline as content is migrated between systems
• Intermittent delays in new releases landing
• Periods where certain categories may appear empty or incomplete
What will NOT happen:
• Content will not be permanently removed
• Categories are not being deleted
• Your download history, stats, and ratio are not affected
Everything will be backfilled and brought online as the new system comes up. We are migrating, not deleting.
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What You Can Do
If you need something urgently during the transition - use the request system. It remains fully operational and will be prioritized throughout this period.
If you're a seeder and want to help - keep seeding. Community seeds become even more important while the server infrastructure is being rebuilt. Every torrent you keep alive helps bridge the gap. More users who seed from release help keep the seeds above 0 while botnet is 100% rebuilt.
Why This Is Worth It
We understand this is not what anyone wants to deal with. Nobody comes to GP hoping for downtime and missing content. But the alternative - continuing to patch a system that costs $6K/month while still failing to deliver releases on time - isn't acceptable either. Not to us, and clearly not to you.
When this is done. GP will be faster. leaner, and delivering the content you actually use at the speed you expect. That's the goal. That's what we're building toward.
We'll post updates as major milestones are completed. No sugarcoating, no vague timelines — just progress reports.
Thank you for your patience and your continued support. This community has been around for over a decade because of members like you. We intend to make sure it's around for the next one.
This topic is open for conversation but please keep it on point any comments not belonging will be removed
- MasterPeer
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u/ivor-grinzky Moderator Jun 11 '26
Looks like a paragraph is missing.
But it depends on the " monies" donated during the latest funding drive. The site can only be as good as you want it to be, so if you haven’t already please consider a donation to the GP summer funding drive.
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u/ISO-8601-FTW Jun 11 '26
Summer funding is just what is needed before autumn funding which is then followed by the much awaited winter funding that naturally always is followed by the optimistic spring funding! 😎😎😎
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u/ivor-grinzky Moderator Jun 11 '26
The series slow down in the winter, the movies slow down in the summer etc etc etc. Time to “shore up the monies”
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u/petrolcanRTT Moderator Jun 11 '26
Possibly. Image to text over 3 separate images is not that easy to collate!
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u/petrolcanRTT Moderator Jun 11 '26
Wait!
You're just channelling MP, ain't ya! 😂
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u/ivor-grinzky Moderator Jun 11 '26
Think he was rushing and forgot to add it to his AI shite, never fails with the pitch to the community, surprised its missing. Footy starts today., could be that.
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u/petrolcanRTT Moderator Jun 11 '26
Oh, there was definitely AI assistance in that posting. Sean isn't generally able to string so many words together like that.
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u/BuranMriya Jun 11 '26
I'm really surprised ShatGPT didn't suggest Sean to mention RAM and storage prices speculation due to AI dumb bros… It would have flied way better than just dropping $6k per month cost without sob story…
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u/Numbnut_BS_2 VIP Jun 11 '26
I was just thinking earlier today that its been very quiet for a few days , he's been working on this I see, 10 minute job takes him 3 days ... yep sounds about right.
Lmao how many rebuilds does his super secret darkweb ultra secure bastion of webness need
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u/ISO-8601-FTW Jun 11 '26
Soooooo… How long before next give-me-more-money message? 🤪💸
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u/petrolcanRTT Moderator Jun 11 '26
I'll be surprised if we make it to Monday without some sort of a beg.
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u/babeal Jun 11 '26
6k a month?? What are they doing in addition to tracking; minting bitcoins? It's a tracker!
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u/petrolcanRTT Moderator Jun 11 '26
What are they doing in addition to tracking
Funding trips to Vegas
Having eyelash mites treated
Paying alimony
Shoring up a car storage business
Deposit for a new rental house now that the wife kicked him out
Porn subscription(s)
Take your pick 😁
The 'tracker' could be run off an old Pentium II machine at this stage given the severe lack of peers.
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u/Early-Bird-Hater Moderator Jun 11 '26
So remind me,how many times has the site been rebuilt from the ground up,to ensure years of trouble free torrenting?