They're not using DHT?

They're not talking about peer discovery, they're talking about .torrent file discovery.

You're correct, but even then you've still the problem of storage - the torrents are only useful (and there's a lot of them) if a sustainable number of seeds remain available.

How abiut torrenting a collection of websites in one collection?

You can distribute less popular websites with more used ones to avoid losing it? And Torrents are good with transfering large files in my experience.

> You can distribute less popular websites with more used ones to avoid losing it?

So long as this distributed protocol has the concept of individual files, there _will_ be clients out there that allow the user to select `popular-site.archive.tar.gz` and not `less-popular.tar.gz` for download.

And what one person doesn't download... they can't seed back. Distributed stuff is really good for low cost, high scale distribution of in-demand content. It's _terrible_ for long term reliability/availability, though.

That is fundamentally the problem, no one wants to donate storage to host stuff they're not interested in.

More concretely, nobody wants to donate anything. They just want it to exist. Charity has never been a functional solution to normal coordination problems. We have centuries of evidence of this.

If we want it to be distributed across laymen, we need something easier than opening torrent files (or inputting magnet URI) over a thousand times. Perhaps https://github.com/ipfs/in-web-browsers?

I can hardly find a healthy torrent for an obscure feature film that I care about. How am I supposed to find a healthy torrent for a random web page from the aughts?

The problem with their torrents is they are usually broken. Lots of complaints on them being broken. But no one fixing it.

Maybe there needs to be a torrentable offline-first HTML file (only goes online to tell you if there's a new torrent whatsoever with more files), that lets you look through for more torrents (Magnet links are really tiny).

I miss when TPB used to have a CSV of all their magnet links, their new UI is trash. I can't even find anything like the old days, pretty much TPB is a dying old relic.

It's not abnormal for their torrents to be missing most of their direct downloads on the same page