Animebyt.es | AB | Cartoons | 2013 Review
AnimeByt.es is a specialized tracker which tracks anime, manga, j-music and OST's, plus other anime-related material such as pc-games. It is relatively small, with the current user cap set at 7500, (due to go up soon,) but has a large number of torrents for its size, at 33,333. AnimeByt.es uses a heavily-modified version of gazelle designed to work well for their specialized needs, which leads to a very clean and easy to browse layout. It has a vibrant user community, complete with forums, IRC, achievements, web-radio, and a watched-list complete with ratings. Although it can be hard to seed sometimes, any user (no matter how bad their connection) can survive here as long as they pay attention to H&R's and the Bonus (¥ or Yen) system.
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Tracker Name: AnimeByt.es
Tracker Type: Specialized: Only Anime, Manga, J-Music and OST's, plus other anime-related material such as pc-games.
Ratio-Based with well-designed Bonus point system.
Tracker Birthday: Mid '09.
Tracker Signup: https://animebytes.tv/application.php
Tracker URL: https://animebytes.tv/
Tracker IRC: #animebyt.es : Chat on animebyt.es IRC channel - IRCHighWay WebChat
Tracker Logo: 
Content: 9.5/10 — This is the goto tracker if you want anime, especially older stuff that's dead on the other trackers. It won't be as good as if you'd followed every fansub blog out there for the last 10 years, but it's pretty good.
Speed: 7/10 — Varies. Some popular stuff I can get at 5 or 6 MB/s, and I usually get at least 1 MB/s, but on some poorly seeded torrents I'm down to 50 or 100 kb/s. There are a lot of torrents on here that have less than 5 seeders, but that doesn't seem to affect the speed too badly. I should also note that I've never been dropped by the last seeder on anything.
Retention: 8/10 — Most stuff stays alive here for good. Sometimes things die, but not often, and quite rarely when it's the only release for something. A good portion of the torrents available were uploaded near the beginning months of the tracker's lifetime. It's not going to be quite as good as BakaBT, which literally has a seedbox sponsoring them by holding a backup of every single torrent they track, but it's still pretty good.
Community: 9/10 — One of the best communities around, with some fun things to do around the site. It can be fun just to poke around. Put it this way. How many trackers do you see around that have competitive aspect achievements as well as a watched list? You can even get an achievement for listening to the web-radio, which occasionally has a live DJ. The forums have plenty of fun threads, as well as some very helpful tutorials. Due to the ludicrous amount of bonus points that some users have, there are some pretty funny competitions that go on for bonus. IRC is very much alive and well with 8 channels. (Some of those are just utility channels.) There is even a channel dedicated to role-playing.
Comparison (other Anime trackers): 9/10 — Good anime trackers that offer a lot of (english) dual audio can be hard to find. The only other one I've used that comes close is BakaBT, and they refuse to track a lot of anime for licensing reasons. Retention times are way higher than you see at places like nyaa or tokyotosho.
