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Re:Over 900 Rarbg Magnet Link Repos Anonymously Nuked from G... by hombre_fatal on Saturday July 01, 2023 @08:45AM (#36549517)
It’s because of this:

> One early upload of more than 270,000 links appeared on GitHub and then took on a life of its own as contributors added to the database and created their own forks.

> A subsequent readme file suggests that the archive later contained over six million magnet links, possibly one of the largest collections ever seen.

Github has users and it’s trivial to contribute.

I don’t see why you wouldn’t host/mirror on GitHub even in light of this event since you can mine free contributions no matter where else you host it.

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Re:Over 900 Rarbg Magnet Link Repos Anonymously Nuked from G... by LinuxBender on Saturday July 01, 2023 @12:29PM (#36551841)
Perhaps a hybrid approach would make more sense? [1] Add a "Login with Github" button on a forum or some other file sharing thing or some other self hosted repo platform.

[1] - https://stackoverflow.com/questions/71741596/how-do-i-implem...

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Re:Over 900 Rarbg Magnet Link Repos Anonymously Nuked from G... by toomuchtodo on Saturday July 01, 2023 @07:21PM (#36556388)
SQLite database replicated in some fashion?
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