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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.

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[–] prole@beehaw.org 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

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.

[–] littlemisskittn@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 11 months ago

Private. Speeds are much better and your stuff lasts longer. I tried several times to have public options for my Coliseum Video uploads and all have failed in some way. At least with private trackers, I know that they’ll stay seeded for a long long time.

[–] Mandy@sh.itjust.works 1 points 11 months ago

Private trackers have, always been a bunch of snobby dingleberries

[–] caleb@lemmy.moorenet.casa 1 points 11 months ago

I really enjoyed the private tracker I used, but I didn't notice that my prowlarr config got messed up and stopped seeding to ratio and I got banned. Don't really want to donate to get unbanned so that sucks. Back to public.

[–] berg@lemm.ee 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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@lemm.ee 1 points 11 months ago

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@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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@sh.itjust.works 1 points 11 months ago

Right on brother

[–] TimewornTraveler@lemm.ee -1 points 11 months ago

I dunno the difference

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