Hello everyone. I wanna introduce a little project I'm working on. Modding sites like Loverslab and Nexus host tremendous amounts of data, and collectively have millions of people downloading it. This puts a big financial strain on the owners of these sites, forcing them to reduce bandwidth by implementing artificial limits like Nexus' 2MB download limit, or Loverslab's 10 second download countdown, search frequency limiter and intrusive ads. This is a big annoyance to users but is seen as a necessary evil by most. I'd like to create a platform where these unpleasant features aren't needed, using torrenting. Keyndb.com (it's live right now, check it out!) is a website that will host video game mods, similar to the Nexus. The big difference is that I don't actually host the files themselves. When you download a mod, you get a torrent file, which you can then use to download the mod using torrenting software like qBittorrent. This means I don't have to hold terabytes of content, and the site's bandwidth goes way down. Torrenting also means you could download a mod of several gigabytes in less than a minute. You have an idea how torrents work, and I hear you ask: torrents need seeders (people who have the files, and can upload the mods to downloaders) to stay alive. Will old mods die off if the uploader stops seeding the file themselves? This may happen, yeah. To prevent this, I'd like to add a feature that lets fans of a mod sponsor it. This can be a one-time payment or a small subscription. Users can decide how much they pay and where the money goes to. This money can go to three places: - The mod author themselves - Me, to keep the website alive - The mod's "seed fund": more on this below. If users donate to a mod's seed fund, I will have servers seed the mod in exchange for a small amount of money to pay for these servers. This money is slowly taken from the seed fund until it runs out. This only happens when there is not a single user seeding the mod themselves, however. If a mod is popular and there's lots of money donated to its seed fund, it's guaranteed that it'll stay downloadable for a long time. If you're a mod author, you can upload your mod to the site, and throw a dollar or two at the seed fund to make sure people will always be able to download your mod. However, this is all speculation and planning. Keyndb.com is currently not usable yet. I try to work on the site as often as I can, but I'm extremely busy with other things. While I know my HTML/CSS/PHP/SQL, I don't have serious web development experience so everything takes a while for me to figure out and build. That's why I'd love to find other people who want to build this website with me (in exchange for some equity in whatever income the website may possibly generate). Some more things: - I don't have any plans to add rules to the site besides "don't break the law" and "don't be an a**hole". - NSFW mods should have an 'NSFW' tag, which makes it invisible by default. Users can flip a switch to make them visible. - One could make a fork of Mod Organizer 2, with a built-in torrenting client (libtorrent). Pressing a download button will send the torrent over to Mod Organizer, and the mod will show up under the Downloads section just like any other mod from the Nexus would. This way you don't even have to mess with other torrent clients. - My intent is not to 'outcompete' sites like Nexus or Loverslab. In fact, I'd love for them to use the same torrenting system so their users can benefit from the upsides as well. I'd love to hear thoughts or feedback. - arteeh