There have been quite a lot of torrent indexers already, but most of them are sooner or later closed. So, I decided to create one more, simple enough (so it can work on its own on a relatively cheap VPS) and legal (so it would be much more difficult to close it). Most of the site data can be freely downloaded. Is there something you think any decent torrent indexer should have?

Thanks again for all feedback. I added all recent feature suggestions on github (https://github.com/retonato/torrenthistory-public/issues). You can vote for them there (just give a thumbs up for the issue you like) and see the current priority here: https://torrenthistory.org/vote/

It would be very nice if you could search based on file name, as you can with btdig.com. If you could somehow provide BRE without melting down, that would definitely put you way ahead of the other DHT index attempts.

What is this useful for? Genuine question.

not sure what definition of "legal" they are using. I clicked Catalog, then 70, then 80, and found lots of "interesting" titles

Can files be more specifically identified - more than just filename+size? I.e. hash(es)/checksum(s) or something like that?

Why does hosting a magnet link make a torrent index 'illegal'? After all, you're not hosting any actual content on your server.