The only information I could find was a super admin posted they are “Either on vacation or on strike…”

I don’t have any information about them. However if anyone would like to replicate their encodes, they did post how they do it last year: https://torrentgalaxy.to/forums.php?action=viewtopic&topicid=2865&page=last#last

I’ve copied the post below.

How to make GalaxyRG265 rips.

We took the RARBG x265 as a base and modified it to our liking. Biggest difference is DDP audio instead of AAC and CRF encoding instead of target bitrate.

GalaxyRG265 rips greatly vary in size as CRF encoding targets a desired visual quality and only uses the bitrate required for that. This results in movies with unsophisticated and little motion to be small and complex high motion movies to be big while both visually the same quality. We set a 4500K max bitrate cap to prevent overly complex video from bubbling to ridiculous sizes.

We use ffmpeg https://www.ffmpeg.org/download.html but other x265 encoders are fine.

ffmpeg parameters

ffmpeg -i INPUTMOVIE.mkv -map 0:V:0 -map 0:m:language:eng -map 0:s? -disposition:s:0 default -c:a eac3 -ac 6 -b:a 384k -c:s copy -c:v libx265 -pix_fmt yuv420p10le -preset slow -crf 22 -maxrate 4500K -bufsize 9M -x265-params "max-merge=5:limit-refs=3:rd=4:rc-lookahead=48:bframes=8:aq-mode=3" -vf "scale='trunc(min(1920/iw,1080/ih)*iw/2)*2':'trunc(min(1920/iw,1080/ih)*ih/2)*2':flags=lanczos" OUTPUTMOVIE.mkv

-map 0:V:0 -map 0:m:language:eng -map 0:s? -disposition:s:0 default

Selects first video stream, ditches any image/cover stream.

Selects English audio stream (use -map 0:a? to select all audio streams).

Selects all subtitle streams and sets first subtitle stream as default.

-c:s copy -c:a eac3 -ac 6 -b:a 384k -c:v libx265 -pix_fmt yuv420p10le -preset slow -crf 22 -maxrate 4500K -bufsize 9M

Copy any subtitles from selected source. Encode audio to DDP5.1 at 384K bitrate.

Encode video using the x265 encoder at 10bit with slow encoding preset set to CRF 22 and 4500K bitrate cap.

-x265-params "max-merge=5:limit-refs=3:rd=4:rc-lookahead=48:bframes=8:aq-mode=3"

Couple x265 tweaks. Some will argue against them. It’s safe to leave this part out and stick to the default x265 parameters.

-vf "scale='trunc(min(1920/iw,1080/ih)*iw/2)*2':'trunc(min(1920/iw,1080/ih)*ih/2)*2':flags=lanczos"

This scales any input video to 1080p while retaining the proper aspect ratio. For quality encodes only use 1080p or higher input resolutions. Don’t be a douche and use this to upscale videos.

Link to more info on ffmpeg parameters https://ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg.html

If you copy the link from Save Instantly, you can copy everything after “url=” to get the magnet.

This is accurate when using the BT protocol. However if you have uTP (Micro Transport Protocol) enabled, it has “support for NAT traversal using UDP hole punching between two port-restricted peers where a third unrestricted peer acts as a STUN server.”

Long story short, in a limited way.

If you look at the protocols available, there are two, BT and μTP.

BT needs one of two peers to have a port open to connect to, either they initiate the connection, or you initiate connection. So if you want to download Arch Linux 2024.12.01(magnet:?xt=urn:btih:265863cbbb5ed9ef39e7c891ebebdf1623b09d5e&dn=archlinux-2024.12.01-x86_64.iso), you’ll need to either connect to a seeder that has a port open, or if you have a port open the seeder can connect to you.

μTP can solve this by performing NAT traversal using UDP hole punching. The way this works is a third peer with open ports will relay information for both peers with closed ports to connect to each other.

If it is this, this Hacker News post has some information, the top comment by eastdakota is the CEO of CloudFlare: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19828317

For me personally I don’t need what much of the private ones have, sure they have community which makes it appealing to some, and I sure would like to be able to talk more openly about what I’ve been up to. I wouldn’t necessarily say that all private users are elitist, more that they enjoy what they have, and it’s a form of community. If you look at the forums for the public tracker that recently went down and has since come back up, they have a sort of community that some really enjoy.

I believe in keeping much of the content free and accessible for everyone to have easy access, so much so that recently I’ve fixed up an old PC and have started maintaining content for the public. Some might call this junk, but for me, it’s about sharing the entertainment and memories that I enjoyed.