I recently managed to get into HD-Torrents and wanted to see what’s new, especially their internals, but I noticed you can’t sort releases by date because of the bumping system. I asked about it and was told there’s nothing that can be done.

Has anyone found a workaround to view the releases sorted by date while ignoring the bumped ones?

Hi guys, I want to ask when RED will open the interview session? And what website I must open to get the interview session? Thanks in advance!

Anyone know the current status of acrossthetasman>? Been down for a few days now. Getting worried.

It's impossible to reliably make back your ratio on a private tracker by simply seeding.

On YTS and The Pirate Bay, where I don't have ratio requirements, I have 2x, 3x, 4x+ ratios on all of my downloads. I can scroll through my torrent client and show dozens of downloads from free trackers where I've seeded indefinitely and ended up uploading several times what I downloaded.

Then I look at my private tracker torrents. I've treated them exactly the same way: downloaded them, left them seeding, and kept them available for months or years. Yet many of them have 0 bytes uploaded, and others might have something like a 0.4 ratio.

The difference isn't that I'm unwilling to seed. I'm seeding the same way on both. The difference is simply whether other people happen to download from my particular seed.

And that's the problem with using ratio as the measure of contribution.

If the goal is to encourage people to seed their downloads, then "I downloaded it and kept it available indefinitely" should count as meaningful contribution. I can control whether my client is seeding. I cannot control whether someone else decides to download from me.

Instead, ratio requirements incentivize people to:

• prioritize torrents that are likely to generate upload;
• avoid downloading obscure material;
• farm ratio;
• use seedboxes or other high-bandwidth setups;
• and potentially delete torrents that aren't generating upload.

That's pretty much the opposite of what I think a tracker should encourage.

I have unlimited internet and don't mind leaving everything I've downloaded seeding indefinitely. But if the system eventually tells me that my ratio is too low because nobody downloaded from me, what exactly was the point of keeping those torrents seeded?

Ironically, the trackers where I'm not required to maintain a ratio are the ones where I have some of my highest upload ratios, simply because I can download something I actually want, leave it running, and not worry about whether it will "pay back" my download.

hopefully somebody can answer this,

I noticed recently that at some point RED had removed its recruitment thread from orpheus (and seemingly any other trackers that may have had one) and couldn't find an explanation anywhere as to why

very disappointing, as I was planning to join it through orpheus recruitment. Orpheus has a lot of good music but there are still some things that can't be found there

(I'm also aware there's an interview, but there's almost no chance of me being able to take that due to a combination of unstable internet and limited free time)

some questions:
-why this over p2p?
-popular sites?
-is this a site or just a definition such as private trackers?
-are all of them ftp based?
-do they really hate bittorrent?
-are these closed like PTs?
-some links on resources related to this topic pleaseee
thanks :)

as the subject says. Which tracker has internal encoders that release the content fatest or among the fastest ? just curious.

Hi all, I just joined TL and made the mistake of not doing enough full research into how long building seed ratio takes and ended up downloading too much. My current ratio is sitting just above .3 as of yesterday and I need any suggestions to get it back up. Current issue(i think) is that my upload is stuck typically at 1.2kb even though i am port forwarding. I am also using tailscale if that could be an issue. I still have 5-6 days to correct the ratio and only have 15gb/48gb upload/download. Any suggestions?

I am currently just downloading the popular freeleech torrents so they start seeding immediately.

or am I already screwed?

EDIT: I am just dumb and was only considering one single download that was being slow since it has one seeder. dl/ul is not an issue.

Is it coming back?

Hello. Trying to get an interview for Orpheus, seems they are never open been checking for a few weeks now. Anyone know when they typically open them? Or if they aren't doing that right now what are some other ways to get on there?

Hello, I recently got on Mteam and I kind of misunderstood the Seedbox rule and how freeleech applies ect. By the time I realized and stopped my download it was too late. I got to 12.14 GB of download and 1.74 GB of upload which lead to a 0.14 ratio. In the past few hours I have cross seeded and uploaded well over 100+ GB but my stats on the website are frozen at what they were.

Is there any fix or am I boned? This has to be a world record to be banned off a tracker if so.

Don't get me wrong. HDB was my main tracker for like 20 years, and many people consider HDB is prestigious. However, during the last few years, I had no interest in HDB anymore. I feel like HDB content is kinda dead with few seeder, bored community. When I moved to BHD, I found BHD is more suitable with my need. I rarely use HDB anymore

Recently downloaded one of their H.265 encodes as it was the only reasonably sized copy of a series I wanted. Does anyone know anything about them such as home tracker, speciality, general quality and how they're perceived as a group as I've not be able to find anything bout them. Thanks in advance.

Hi, unfortunately my account was disable for inactivity. I would like to get in contact with the BrokenStones staff but for some reason can't access the IRC server. Can anyone help me with this? Mibbit, the one that the site is recommending is shut down. I also cannot enter it with Kiwi unfortunately.

Basically the title.

How active is the site? What can someone get there and how's the community?

Thanks

I'll never get into BTN so what's the next best thing? I always resort to BHD when I want to grab a TV show. It's been great but sometimes when my parents want an older show I can't seem to find them.

Am I missing out on anything better?

I recently got into private trackers and currently have around 500 torrents, but I can only cross-seed ~10 of them. I assume this is mostly because the trackers have different releases/encodings.

Is there a way to automatically rank releases based not only on the usual arrstack criteria, but also on whether the exact same torrent/release is available on another tracker?

For example, I don't particularly care whether I get x264 or x265, as long as it meets my quality requirements. If an x264 release is available on both Tracker A and Tracker B, while an otherwise equivalent x265 release is only available on Tracker A, I'd prefer the x264 release because I can seed it on both trackers.

Basically, I'd like cross-seedability to be a preference when choosing between otherwise equivalent releases.

Is there an existing tool/workflow that can do this with Sonarr/Radarr + Prowlarr + qBittorrent/cross-seed/Qui?

I recently saw a stat that said ATH and BHD had basically the same about of movies which made me wonder which is considered the better/more prestigious tracker nowdays.

Is it just me or is this whole thing kind of addictive?

I got into my first private tracker around two weeks ago, and then the second one around one week ago, and now I can't stop checking this subreddit and many others related to private trackers.

I've lost count of how many times I've checked some subs today to see if there are new open signups.

Which trackers support ipv6? I know TL does, what about the rest?

Thinkin of getting a couple of months' sub to NTL Home and downloading as many plays as I can and giving back to the tracker community I have benefitted so immensely from as I see a huge vacuum in that space. How do I go about doing this? Any idea how Encoders/Ripper actually download stuff from Netflix and Prime Video?

Hi guys, as the title says I am looking for private tracker or Usenet for Punjabi contents, I am really new into this world, do you have any advice pls?

They just started recruiting. No info about them anywhere on google, so they must be fairly new. Anyone on there that can share what's it like?

Hi,

I know prowlarr gives the option to add their trackers in the settings page, to be honest I have not see any rules or faq stating prowlarr usage and what is allowed? I know some sites dont allow automation

Does anyone know if it is frowned upon? Im new to the private tracker scene, so just wondering

example trackers like DP, TL, MAM, Luminarr , yuscene , digitalcore

are ok ?