What happened to BAKABT in April 2017?

Nodachiiiii said:


I would also like to remind you that accounts on BBT that have been inactive for 11 months (i.e. not logged in) will prune.

And lastly, my thanks to all those of you who stuck with us for many years through fire and hell.

Regards,
Nodame

Nodachiiiii said:

In any case, please stop making assumptions, and wait for upcoming announcements. Twitter will be our main way of announcing stuff during the downtime

Akumaphyre said:
Can you confirm whether you're going private or not which has been previously stated? Or was that a rumor also?

EratiK said:
Noda just explained wait for a twit man.

IpreferEcchi said:
BakaBT living up to its name and going full baka na.

EmptyNest said:
Thanks for your quick responses .... you all seem like a great group

Bakaby has always been semi-private

However, it seems to have suddenly (without any warning I've seen) gone totally private.
It seems it is no longer possible to even visit their home page without a username and password and there is absolutely no discernible way to register or sign up as a member.

For at least a decade (up until a few days ago) I always used it as a guest. Now that seems impossible. When I try to got to anything on the site (homepage, browse, follow a torrent link, etc.) I merely get the same page - which has the sentence "The Future never comes. What comes is always here now." Osha then fields for a username and password.

There is no way to register and no further info. Does anyone know whether this is temporary or permanent? Anyone with inside or authoritative knowledge of this? And will it be possible to register?
Or will I need an invite from a member before I can register? If that is the case I can't imagine how that would even happen.

I know a lot of folks don't like Bakabt but I always found their anime to be well subbed and the pictures and synopsis always helped inform me, not to mention the relatively fast downloads.

So I hate to lose it as a resource. Does anyone know how to access it NOW? Any help is and will be greatly appreciated.

Thanks again for your input -

remlei said:
I actually got AB and BakaBT account and I'm a active seeder on both trackers.

AB has its caveats though, its a unregulated tracker, meaning if you want to get the best quality anime, your on youre own.

Bakabt on the other hand is not really meant to be your daily driver animu torrent tracker site thing. It's a archival tracker, meaning you can get the best quality anime, manga, <insert jap stuff here>.

I can still remember the 1st day I registered on BBT using my DSL based connection with crappy <1mbit upload. And now im running under 300mbit symmetric connection under FTTH,which is seeding about 150mbit on peak hours and full 300mbit on offpeak. which is great since on off peak, the other side of the planet is day time so I get more leech hits at off peak than peak hours in my country. I also dont login to bakabt that much but I have place a curl script on my NAS to do daily logins so I dont need to bother my self to login my account regularly to avoid getting my account pruned.

If you ask me which side is good, well none. For archival, youre best bet is bakabt, AB has a lot of dead seed torrents while Bakabt managed it with all torrent well seeded if not with active seeder.AB in the other hand had many things to offer that BBT doesnt and that includes the licensed stuff.

Is bakabt going to die after they went to secret club website? Well highly unlikely.

For me, when I download anime in batch, I just check it out first in BBT then AB else Nyaa.

Kyle_Hyde said:
Oh Christ almighty, I was able to re-enable my AB account. Seeing all the trackers go down made me panic a bit there.

CanisTomek said:
I used to have account on BAKABT, but was offline over a year. Is there a way to restore acc?

Mirookami said:

Nope, i don't think so.

kuroi8 said:
First Bakabt and now Nyaa? Nyaa has shut down for good.

_Ako_ said:


Interesting... I still can''t access BBT here.

dottris said:
Damn, I had an AB account but I got banned because of inactivity :'D
Now my only hope is that I logged into Bakabt in the past 11 months.

Anyway, here is a great russian tracker:
http://rutracker.org/forum/index.php

There are like everything, most of them even with a russian dub :D
But you can find here softsubed/dual audio version from almost every anime. Registration is needed I think but it's open once you have found the registration button.

deathnote00 said:
lol i cant understand a thing in that site

dottris said:


Trust me, me neither :D
I have found the registration menu after about 10 min and I know where is the search bar, that' all.

Mutant said:
BBT will always be second to AB

also think i got 10 invites on my account for AB

Seiya said:


And what exactly is "AB" supposed to be?

Narmy said:

animebytes​​​​​​​​​

Seiya said:


Does that site even have much Anime to offer? And is it torrents?

Narmy said:

Yeah it has all the anime, but you need an invite to join.

Seiya said:


Even all the obscure 80s OVAs that nobody has heard about?

Narmy said:

I dunno, name one and I'll check.

Seiya said:


I'll name a few I've already seen:

Salamander
Mujigen Hunter Fandora
Nozomi Witches
Antique Heart
Carol
Circuit Angel
Hoshikuzu Paradise
Nayuta

Narmy said:

It's got all those.

Seiya said:


So does BakaBT. My BakaBT account still works, so I won't bother with Animebytes.

Mutant said:


AB just has more torrent/subs options and usually in better quality

Mutant said:
BBT will always be second to AB

also think i got 10 invites on my account for AB

CataOrShane said:
So... can anyone send me an invite do ab? Please

AnimeBytes said:
Buying invites is prohibited.
Buying an account is prohibited.
Obtaining your invite from a public giveaway is prohibited.
Sharing your account is prohibited.
Giving away your account is prohibited.
You will be held responsible if users you invite get disabled for breaking the rules.
Offering invites in public is prohibited.

Kuromii said:


Taken from AnimeBytes' wiki page:



In short, no one who values their AB account is going to invite you if they don't know/trust you.

jedman said:


How does this work as most people that tend to be really into Anime don't exactly have many friends.

Seiya said:


I mostly watch older stuff, so I'm used to seeing 480p 4:3 Anime. If something happens to BakaBT, I'll try AB, but right now I have no reason to.