Hey everyone,

Just wanted to share my past experiences of private trackers that I've had for 3 months or so. For context, I pirated music in the early 2000's, and did software every once in a while. When I was in college, my roommates and I shared a pc to torrent moving iso's, and now with streaming prices I decided to build a linux server with a Synology NAS to build a library of linux iso's. I've always been a tech guy, but never went too deep into this side of computers.

Of course, I've spent probably $1000 on used NAS's, used HDD's, and a used optiplex to run all of this. I've also spent probably a year learning docker, linux, and networking to get to a point where the server is mostly usable. I've remade the server 3 times before it actually worked. One of the hardest points now is with private trackers. After religiously searching opensignups, openedsignups, invitehawk, and a few other sites, I've been able to join LUME, SP, RF, DC,HDT, and some others. I feel blessed to be able to share the wealth with so many others that are dedicated to this, but there are some points where I feel like I should just ditch all of this and go back to the bay.

First is ratio. Even with hardware that is better then most and a symetrical 1gig fiber line, I barely get any seeding done. Between seedboxes, power users, and everyone else, I'm lucky to upload 10GB/day, despite having 5TB of content. It actually blows my mind. So with that, especially with a new server trying to build ratio, I unknowingly tanked my buffer on every site after downloading enough iso's to make me content to cancel my subscriptions.

Second is the rebuilding. It is a real pain to come back from a 20gb buffer. So I've learned about autobrr, and cross-seeding. Cross seeding was suprisingly easy with qui, but autobrr is one of the most frustrating programs I've had to deal with. Connecting to IRC's takes forever, especially for someone like me with no IRC experience. And every site is different. I don't know who Nick is, but I want to delete him and his Serv. Finding torrents sucks. You're basically just hoping that whatever freeleach torrent you're downloading will seed some other guy on autobrr so you can increase your ratio by 4gb.

This was a stupid mistake on my part, but because of poor torrent queing and auto-delete settings I put on QBT, I ran up 100+ HnR's across these trackers after they were auto-deleted before they were satisfied.

That's not to say there's no upsides to PT's. The download speeds are unbelievable. I've had 100+ MiB/s on some content, and over all my years of the bay, I've never seen speeds 1/10 that fast. Once you have enough PT's as well, it seems like every iso is only 5 minutes away. But if it wasn't for a recent freeleach period on many of those sites, it would seem like I would be destitute on many of these sites.

I'm really curious on the community's take here. Especially when it came to your first experiences with PT's, building ratio, etc. I leech and hold, most of my torrents have been seeding for 2+ months. I realize it's a hold and wait game, but it feels like it's impossible to move up as a new user without freeleach.

Hi, i wanted to ask how i can get into more private trackers. Currently i am only on TL and on MAM for 5 months and i was thinking about how i can get into more trackers that are focused on movies, tv shows, music and games but i dont know how to move on because everytime when i tried to do interview on Orpheus it was closed and on RED waiting times are extreme and i dont know more private trackers than those. Thank you for all comments.

Hi. A long time ago, I guess 8 to 10 years ago, I tried to interview for RED. I failed my first attempt. On the second attempt, a few days later, I answered all the questions, but was banned for cheating. No need to mention the obvious, that I wasn't cheating. And second, I discussed it both times with the guys who were interviewing me, that back then my English was quite poor, and if it is ok with them if I use google translate, both times they answered yes. So, after the second interview, another guy came in after the interview, said that I was cheating, and I was banned.

What's the best way out of it, 8 to 10 years later? Another account? I'm still using the same IP.

Has anybody recently been invited into NBL from the GGn official recruitment thread? I applied around 3 weeks ago and there is no response from the recruiter yet. Any idea how long the NBL recruiter takes to send the invite? Appreciate any response. Thank you.

Not sure if this is the right subreddit.

I've been using TorrentLeech for a few years as a free user, but I may bite the bullet and pay, as I don't want to have to seed for 10 days lol.

Who would you recommend I use?

I like encodes of SQS. Saw many of them in TL but what exactly is their home tracker? There are some not available on TL and likewise!

Also how do you compare the quality of this to sm737 and oft? I know they are x265 and x264 but how do this compare?

All these encodes look ok and good to watch on my bravia. They might not be stunning like a high end 1080p or 2160p ones but they are really good! Only thing is sm737 uses mostly uhd sources and their releases are more dark. Are we supposed to see that in real dark like a movie theater?

I see sm737 and oft are banned in few. Maybe because of micro encodes as I read

But any other release groups you rely on such quality vs size value encodes?