Are they for you? Why or why not?
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It’s mainly all I use. The consistent quality is super nice. Though when PTP was down for a month or two I ended up back on Usenet too.
BTN and PTP aren’t hard to maintain ratio on.
Redacted can be a bit of a pain, and I’ve had to fix my ratio there a few times. But I had a few CDs from some small local bands I’m using Usenet more for music at the moment so lidarr doesn’t tank my ratio so quick.
I’ve only been part of one private tracker, and I got kicked from them after not logging in for a month despite meeting ratios. haven’t bothered since then
iptorrents ig lol
nah, it was digitalcore
I do use private trackers but only if I can’t find something on public trackers
ITT: the sourest of grapes.
Only because I was randomly invited to one by a friend, otherwise I wouldn’t have bothered with it.
I love my privates :)
I love your privates too 😘
I can find most everything I want/need on public trackers, so I’ve never felt the need to jump through their hoops; however easy that would be.
If i wanted to jump through complicated hoops, I’d try paid streaming services!
I don’t use private trackers…
I’ve never liked them outside of the niches the private trackers I had access to were about.
I’ve had one that sucked for anything other than music (and even the music was annoying because the uploaders had boners for FLAC and this was back when file size still mattered and FLACs are fucking huge and don’t sound different enough to warrant the file size), one that only hosted textbooks for college courses, and another that was strictly niche as fuck films that nobody has ever even really heard of.
It’s good to filter out bad actors uploading viruses, but it also limits how much stuff is there period.
They’re the tits. Public trackers are literal trash by comparison. Like comparing Notre Dame to a busted gas station chapel in Missouri.
Do you have some to recommend?
BHD, PTP, RED, EMP
What are some good public trackers for movies and shows? With VPN enabled of course.
Btdig, not a tracker just searches DHT of other trackers
Just use I2P 🤷 It’s slow, but it’s safe
What’s that?
An anonymous network that’s better for P2P than TOR (qbittorrent supports anonymous torrents this way). Also allows hidden services like an alternative github, so they could host their code and other stuff their. That would make Nintendo’s tantrums and threats meaningless.
As somebody else posted https://geti2p.net
I just don’t have the time for it or well, I do, but I don’t wanna put effort into mantaining ratios and whatnot. I have stuff to do that I enjoy more than be part of a internet club.
But that’s just me.
Out of curiosity, what effort is needed to maintain ratio?
My experience is that just seeding what you like indefinitely is not useful. You have to be proactive and find popular torrents to seed and accrue any meaningful upload amount.
The tracker I use has a bonus point system to encourage all seeders even of unpopular releases but it’s slow.
I found that the perfect solution for my use case (music) ended up being Soulseek. I don’t have much money for seedboxes or buying extra storage so I feel like I’m priced out of private trackers.
At the very least, you need to keep an eye on it. Just seeding can be insufficent because of speeds, competition and popularity of things you download.
Is it a lot of effort? Probably no but in my case any effort is too much effort. Is just not my thing. I admire the spirit but I don’t have it in me.
Not for me.
- My setup puts all external traffic from my torrent container through the VPN
- Getting into a private tracker is a pain
- Setting up the VPN exception is a pain
- I won’t even know if the tracker is worth it until I’m already in and can see their library
They’re extremely good for higher quality content such as 4K REMUX files. I have access to a private tracker that I use regularly. I only search public trackers if what I want isn’t available in the private one…which is rare.
To me it’s not about price or openness or anything. Piracy is a service issue. Private trackers have better service than public trackers. Better curated content, better seeders, and fewer (if any) shit quality re-encodes by people who don’t know what they’re doing.
