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.

Gooey0210,

I prefer rutracker 👀

java, (edited )

I can’t bother joining a private tracker. Of course, they might be useful for niche content. For instance, 15 years ago there was a special tracker, where people shared races of virtually all racing series. But mainstream stuff is available on public trackers.

There one tracker where I download lossless music. But anyone can join it, I guess you could define it as semi-private or semi-public.

Dwalin,

I’m interested in the lossless music tracker. Which one is it?

java,

rutracker.org, e.g. rutracker.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=3494796

The interface is in Russian, but it’s not that hard to translate a couple of words to navigate. Apparently, you don’t even have to be registered to download anymore.

https://i.imgur.com/u99vxb3.png

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.

pewgar_seemsimandroid,

whatever lets me a upload a YouTube video downloaded via newpipe

Dumbkid,
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Only in two minor private trackers and meh, I liked usenet better don’t have to worry about ratios cause I use the *arrs. The private trackers I had to rack up like 5tb of buffer before I felt comfortable having the *arrs automatically grab from em

TimewornTraveler,

I dunno the difference

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

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

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.

GravitySpoiled,

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

WarmApplePieShrek,

Private trackers aren’t dominated by people who waste my bandwidth downloading all day at maximum speed and never contributing back.

prole, (edited )

My private tracker days are behind me after they shut down OiNK, and then later what.cd. Though I can’t say I don’t miss it sometimes. At its peak, What was an amazing place.

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. 😄

Mandy,

Private trackers have, always been a bunch of snobby dingleberries

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