TorrentButler is especially good for "discovering" movies. Both are good for torrent newbies. I like Movies.io search a lot, but I agree it would best if one of them combined both features into one. Also, both should have their own commenting systems, to make it easier to find the fakes. Movies.io has something called "Verified" now, but not sure how that works. Are they just verifying them manually? That seems like a lot of work.

We are using the Fenopy API to get the verified status of torrents.

We still want to keep a lot of features out of the interface. Power users will still prefer searching manually for their torrents to see information we don't provide (such like codecs).

We want to keep our interface as clean as possible.

To me both Movies.io and torrentbuttler address the "torrent newbie" market, as people who already know how to use torrents, can use TPB or other similar sites just fine.

But right now I'd probably have to recommend both of the sites to newbies, one for searching and one for discovery. But I'm sure you'll have a lot of success just keeping it simple the way it is, too. It may actually be the main reason why it got so popular right now. So don't fix what isn't broken I guess.

But since I think this is more for newbies, you better make sure there are no fakes in those 5 listings, either through a technical solution or by allowing others to make comments on the page, or at least use ratings for the torrent's quality or something (but make sure they understand it's not about the quality of the movie).