Do you prefer private or public trackers?

As I get more and more invites to private trackers, I’m finding that I find myself spending more and more time on public tracker websites.

I’ll only use private trackers if I can’t find what I’m looking for on a public tracker. Private tracker rules can get pretty onerous and I prefer to just avoid the whole scene if possible.

If I’m honest, this opinion surprises me. I didn’t expect to prefer public trackers. I always thought that private trackers were so cool and exclusive. I don’t think that way anymore.

skele_tron,

I used to want to get in on some private trackers, esp cult movie related ( karagarga ) but was always put off by elitism of those rules and systems.

Instead i opted to upload to pirate bay and like a trve pirate - no questions asked, download what you will - seeded some very obscure movies that i collected. Had to pull the plug after more than 10 yrs because i was emigrating, was a good time.

CriticalMiss, (edited )

I’m the occasional pirate, I don’t download more media than I watch and therefore never saw the appeal of private trackers. They have their perks, no doubt, but most of what I need can be found on the internet.

SchizoDenji,

If you only watch English content, 100%. But if you are into foreign language stuff then private trackers do have some scene releases that aren’t available on public ones.

CriticalMiss,

I rarely watch anything in my native languages, the content we produce is bad, so I never needed anything beyond what public trackers offer and very rarely subtitles.

eating3645,

If you permaseed you don’t need to know individual tracker seeing requirements.

Leax,

How many torrents are you usually sharing at the same time? I find it affects my Internet speed at some point, even if I limit the upload rate…

eating3645,

Not many. I prefer smaller trackers though. If you see a lot of popular torrents on larger trackers, you’ll have a bunch of concurrent active seeds.

SexualPolytope,
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I can’t permaseed for tv shows due to storage limits, so I use autoremove-torrents to automatically delete stuff based on the tracker.

SexualPolytope,
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I’m kinda in the same boat, except for a specific private tracker. It’s a local private tracker which has a ton of exclusive stuff in my native language, and most of the users also speak it so there’s a communal aspect to it. But otherwise, yeah. I also tend to prefer public trackers, especially for more mainstream stuff.

PlasmaDistortion,

Public but that’s because I always find what I am looking for and don’t see a need for a a private tracker.

Imprint9816, (edited )

Doesn’t matter, my happiness is solely based on fulfilling my needs. This ends up requiring a mix of private and public trackers.

In this day and age its easy to automate fulfilling whatever obligations a private tracker requires once invited, so they are a relatively small hassle most of the time.

Crow, (edited )
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I actually can’t find the stuff I want that’s missing on public trackers on private ones, so they’re pointless to me.

Edit: Looking for HD middle seasons of Reno911.

lksaar,

TVV has S01-S06 in 1080p avc, and TL has a S01-S08 1080p in hevc

berg,

Private, I like sharing in a community. Particularly like the Nordic one I’m in, they make sure everything has nice subs. There’s also a few quirky torrents on there, like a collection of very old and niche Swedish PC games, many of which I remember fondly from when I was young.

vildis,

What’s the proportions of Swedish, Finnish, Norwegian and Danish content on there? I’ve been trying to get into some more private trackers apart from MAM and TL

berg,

I couldn’t tell you really since I’m only looking for one of them. But I think it’s predominantly Swedish, or maybe it’s just bias. 😄

CalicoJack,

I prefer private, but only a few that aren’t to crazy with the rules. Ratio is easy enough to maintain with some freeleech torrents set to seed forever, all other torrents get set to whatever the minimum seed requirements are. The selection, quality, and speed are so much better that I don’t mind putting in that little bit of effort. Public trackers are my last resort.

That said, any torrents are secondary to Usenet. That subscription is worth every damn penny.

Vendetta9076,
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Right on brother

K0W4LSK1, (edited )
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I just recently decided to donate to a certain private tracker and fuck man its so nice. It has so much and its all good. Plus you know the quality will be legit on the highly seeded items. Since i donated it gave me a boost on my ratio, which even with my mediocre connection is fairly easy to keep good

yuuunikki,

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    WarmApplePieShrek,

    For what?

    yuuunikki, (edited )

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    WarmApplePieShrek, (edited )

    What are you trying to download? Good private trackers only focus on one type of content. There are average general ones too.

    yuuunikki,

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    WarmApplePieShrek,

    then yes, there are private trackers for this

    Appoxo,
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    Indifferent.
    I use both torrent und usenet, public and private trackers and indexers.

    GingeyBook,

    How do you go about getting invited to a private tracker?

    I seed all my Linux isos on public trackers but I’m not active in any communities

    Will an owl show up someday with a letter?

    WarmApplePieShrek,

    /r/trackers has a lot of info, and /r/trackersignups tells you when trackers are open for signup. Too bad they aren’t on Lemmy.

    jrbaconcheese,

    You get an invite from a member. Or you can trade if you have an invite to spare, but I think it’s frowned upon by some.

    SEND_NOODLES_PLS,

    I’ve been having difficulty joining private trackers as well, but mostly I’ve just been trying to apply to a few that I think I’d like to join. Don’t quite understand why I don’t get an invite though. I maintain a perma up seedbox, and wouldve thought that was mostly what’s important for private trackers.

    UnRelatedBurner,

    imo get to know somebody who’s in to invite you, and you will become that somebody that ppl would want to meet.

    subtext,

    Go and interview for a tracker like RED (interviewfor.red). From RED, you can get just about anywhere within the private tracker world if you’re a good member and rank up.

    rambos,

    That one is hard to maintain. I think torentleech is best for new peeps

    boooooboo, (edited )

    There are much easier trackers to get into that doesn’t require this much prereading prior.

    Private trackers (not the biggest ones though) do open signups from time to time too (ie no interview no vetting, just sign up), so look out for those.

    The most important thing is if you’re into the content offered on the site - RED’s only attractive if you’re an audiophile for instance, it doesn’t have movies/games etc. Get a name, then find out from there how to get into it. Read the rules on how not to get into leecher status almost immediately once you get in. Once you get your foot into an easier tracker that at least has some content you’re into, then make your way up if you want more.

    neo,
    @neo@lemmy.comfysnug.space avatar

    On the other hand, if you can interview for and get into RED, that’s a strong signal that you can make in in the realm of private trackers.

    Appoxo,
    @Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

    Yes. you just need to visit an open invite forum/thread like on reddit or on the interwebz.
    Keyword: Open Signup

    akilou,

    Pm me and I’ll send you an invite

    GravitySpoiled,

    Provate tracker. We are there for each other and together we have an awesome collection of linux isos

    GlitzyArmrest,
    @GlitzyArmrest@lemmy.world avatar

    Private is so much better, availability and speed wise. For most, as long as you build ratio with freeleech torrents, you’re fine.

    K0W4LSK1,
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    Freeleech is my ratio lifeblood lmao

    Knuk,

    I haven’t had to get a torrent out of freeleech except for an ebook and now I’ve got a ratio in the millions

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