Really! 😅 I hate the elitism, interviews, etc of private trackers, so even though I have the knowledge and seed constanly, I only download from public trackers, in order to seed content that will remain public and accessible by everyone
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I'm on IPT and TL and getting ratio on them took fucking forever. It's basically impossible to do via seeding because everything gets flooded with seeders instantly. Occasionally they have stuff I can't find elsewhere but I mostly use public ones. If I didn't have to maintain a ratio on the private ones to download I would be seeding so much more of their shit. IMO seeding time is a much better metric to use to enforce seeding than ratio.
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My, admittedly limited, experience with private trackers is pretty much the only time I have seen power tripping worse than Reddit mods.
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Hey all, I know a lot of people are migrating to private torrent sites, and OK, that's a choice. However there are still a lot of people on the public torrents who are just leeching and not seeding.
Effect. Cause.
Also, seed to I2P trackers!! It's now possible with qBitTorrent.
I feel you. A few weeks ago I finished a 450GB torrent that had like 5 seeders all super slow and wouldn't even connect most of the time. It took over 7 month in total.
As another public only user, gotta emphasise this. I'm on a pretty quick fibre connection, so luckily it's not a bother for me to get really good ratios but every little helps folks!
Issue is that most people can't/don't know how to set up a vpn and a torrent program that will give more than like a 10Kb upload. So even if they aren't trying not to seed, they still aren't by default.
Please note that many countries don't give a fuck about private-use piracy, so in many cases you don't need a VPN.
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I would love to seed but I can never seem to get my client and network setup to do it with any torrent I've tried. I've attempted everything I can find online, across different ISPs, computer builds, and OS instances. Can't ever seem to get it working between all the different configurations.
Now I'm running a pfSense firewall on a FIOS connection, with Windows 10, and qBittorrent behind Proton VPN. Still haven't been able to get even freeleech torrents to seed. I've tried a lot of clients and ports over the years. I think it may be something I'm doing wrong!
Maybe a dumb question, but have you enabled port forwarding in your torrent client and ensured that the VPN server you are connected to allows port forwarding? Proton has decent documentation on how to do this, but it's not obvious if you didnt already know you needed port forwarding.
This had me tripped up for nearly a full year after I got back into torrenting.
I appreciate the suggestion. I have followed their guides, set up Proton VPN with their torrent servers involving ports to forward. I updated that port in the client and it still just sits there, staring at me with a 0.3 seed rate. I keep them up for at least 30-days (to appease my private tracker's 2:1 seeds or 14-day offering) to no avail. I keep trying different things and just kind of accept it, for now. Maybe when I move to Linux as my daily driver I'll have better luck in that field!
I've seen some people have issues with being able to punch qBittorrent through a VPN so that may be the first place to troubleshoot. Maybe Proton gatekeeps certain traffic? Other than that I can't help, sorry.
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I've never noticed the lack of port forwarding actually impacting the ability to seed (I'm sure it's slower and harder for peers to find you but if you're actively downloading new things you're constantly announcing on trackers and DHT and if you leave something reasonably popular to seed you'll seed) but I am not a Proton user, I suppose they could be doing some kind of no seed crap like when Facebook was pirating to train its AI.
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What @dmention7@lemm.ee wrote: qBittorrent can pretty easily punch a hole through your router if you can enable UPnP on it. Don't forget to enable it in qBittorrent as well, although I think it's on by default.
If that's not an option, then you might have to spend a bit of time setting up port forwarding manually, which has always been a pain, but once you learn it, it's quite easy.
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After I've gotten 1gbit fiber I tend to try and hit ratio 1000:1 on anything I seed. Back when I was on xDSL connections before fiber, I tried to hit 1.1:1 because my thinking was if everyone tried to do that, there'd literally never be data loss.
I recently tried getting "The Sinking of the Laconia" miniseries and it took 8 days to get it. But I'm not member of a private tracker where it was available anyway, so sometimes public is better as long as one is patient.
I've been seeding for over 3 years. I only have a torrent that got up to 980 of ratio, if I remember correctly
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I seed, but I'm behind a NAT I don't control without port forwarding, so I'm not a good seed.
Maybe I will do the seedbox VPS thing... after I get employed again.
I haven't tried it yet, but I've seen massive lists of trackers floating around that you can add to your torrents, in case the same torrent is indexed on other trackers, but the torrent file you downloaded doesn't know to search them.
Yes absolutely, keeping your trackers up to date is important, they do expire
for example
will give you an up to date list of live trackers to replace the dead ones with
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Just this past week I coincidentally got my torrent box back up and behind a VPN. I'm actively looking for popular torrents in need of more seeders, especially those on private trackers worth building some seed cred on. Anyone got suggestions? I'm open to books, libraries, certain genres of anime, feature length movies, various commercial software, and large FOSS software.
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Ah fuck, forgot to turn on my vpn last night. Gotta pump this ratio numbers up!
How do I do that? It is extremely recently that I started using torrents.
To keep things simple, they must be left in the same location as wherever the download client puts them, and the client stays open. I use an organiser and very useful tool called Radarr, it monitors your downloads and it lets you hardlink the video files once they've completed, which both allows the download client to keep seeding, and the media server you may use to keep using it.
A hardlink involves some intimate knowledge of how storage works, it can be done manually but the best option is to let a program handle it for you. Note: To hardlink, the download location and media library location must be on the same storage device, and the Sonarr user must have write access to the downloaded file. For me, group write access didn't help. This way it will not duplicate storage.
Generally, some areas and Internet Service Providers might crack down on torrenting of any sort, so using a VPN is a smart way to not get your IP noticed. My area's authority and ISP don't care, so I'm not too sure.
Just after you downloaded it. Keep the program open so you are seeing automatically.. Meaning others can download the content from your computer. Assuming you correctly configured your firewall/router to open up the right ports.
magnet:?xt=urn:btih:2e9aa7e3b949238ed2db6cfc6f0f45a743a3bf54&dn=Machine%20Gun%20Fellatio%20[3%20Albums]
Really appreciate the response, thank you. I do actually have those 3 albums (bought the CDs), I'm more chasing the rarer stuff. But that link will get added and seeded now
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i'll keep seeding the new normal even though nobody wants it to get to my 1.0 ratio even if it takes me a million years
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You see, the problem is that radar and sonarr move my files into designated folders. That is a good thing, but it also makes it so that my download client can't find it again to continue uploading.
I have now set it up so that I keep a copy in my downloads folder for a week, but I don't have the space to permanently keep two copies of all my downloads.
It would be great if radarr could tell my download client where the file has moved to so that it can keep on seeding indefinitely.
You can configure radarr and sonarr to use hard linking instead of moving the.
Yes, but hardlinking doesn't work if the files aren't on the same petition.
My downloads folder is on the main harddisk.
The files are moved to an external ssd.
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If I have had Radarr and Sonarr rename all my files and move them. Is it still possible to seed them? Do I need to package them as torrents again?
My problem is that the file I download is not in the right format, doesn’t have any metadata embedded, doesn’t have subs embedded, and doesn’t match my file naming convention. In fact the way media is packaged, I don’t know how anyone that cares about these things is able to seed.
Unfortunately, I am behind CG-NAT, so it always barely uploads anything.
I wish it could work like WebRTC or Tailscale. There could just be servers like the trackers, but to help establish this direct connection between peers.
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