Managed to get an invite to a decent private tracker with a great selection. Ever since the downfall of RARBG I’ve basically been 90% private for most of my stuff. I relied very heavily on it. Like someone else said, public occasionally has things the private ones don’t. Private trackers may integrate public items into their communities.
It’s pretty common actually for private to integrate public content, anime especially since most encoders post to Nyaa.
For missing content I see a lot of people make requests and that usually gets filled pretty quickly. Nevertheless there will always be that one-off release that doesn’t exist private, and vice versa where it doesn’t exist publicly.
I’ve been after a BTN invite for a long time. Is there any chance you could help me out? I have great ratios on other private trackers. I know BTN doesn’t track that, but I always seed well beyond 1:1 for moral reasons.
Seeding 1 for 1 isn’t what they’re looking for in users as a general rule, they’re looking for people who will seed forever.
You’re probably more likely to meet people who have access to those sites in self hosting communities where they can share with friends who they know have the infrastructure to benefit those communities.
I’ve been after a BTN invite for a long time. Is there any chance you could help me out? I have great ratios on other private trackers. I know BTN doesn’t track that, but I always seed well beyond 1:1 for moral reasons.
In general the procedure is to go through recruitment forums on trackers you are already in or occasionally interviews and open signups when starting out. For BTN specifically they have not opened recruitment in a long time and invites are few and far between. So right now you have to be get lucky and befriend someone with a very high ranking and is stacked with bp that can get you an invite.
In the process of setting up a media server using Unraid instead of just a HDD in my main PC. Seems like seeding regularly may become more viable - is the trick to just stay hooked up to a VPN continuously?
You don’t need a VPN for private trackers, the only risk is from IP Trolls, and they don’t have access to the tracker so they can’t see your IP address
How do we know the up trolls can’t find their way into the private trackers somehow? I’ve been using a VPN for seeding all my private tracker stuff because I’m a bit too paranoid about my ip being out there.
Ah, heard. So then once I get my shit together the trick then becomes weaseling my way into a private tracker and maintaining that sweet sweet ratio. Thank you!
I’d suggest trying usenet first. I found it far more friendly.
Sign up for frugal usenet. Sonarr, radarr, prowlarr, nzbget. Use trash-guides.info to do your set up correctly. No VPN needed since it’s over ssl. It’s cheaper than a VPN. And if you’re torrenting I’d still use a VPN, despite what that other guy says.
I joined PHD but couldn’t get my ratio up since there is no one downloading. Like, literally no one in anything besides brand new shit.
For movies, the best is PTP. It takes time and effort to join. Some more accessible alternatives would be BHD, BLU, and FL.
For TV, the best is BTN. They are currently closed outside of personal invites, so virtually impossible to join at the moment. Some more accessible alternatives would be MTV, BLU, and FL.
For music, the best is RED. They have a hard economy, so if you want any easier economy and overall experience the best alternative is OPS. Soulseek is also a must if you are looking for music.
For games, the best is GGn. Nothing really comes close in the private tracker ecosystem. There is PxC, but they are light-years behind in terms of breadth and depth of content. More accessible alternatives would be in the public tracker space like 1337x and Rutracker.
For audiobooks, the best is MAM, which is also the easiest private tracker to join for someone who is not on any private trackers yet. Start here, even if you’re not looking for audiobooks. Seriously, this is the best private tracker to learn the ropes on.
For ebooks, the best is BIb. I may be wrong, but I don’t think they are recruiting at the moment. A far more accessible alternative would be MAM.
For literally every single person who has asked, is currently asking, or will ask in the future some iteration of “how do I join these trackers/where do I start/can you invite me to tracker x,” the answer stays the same: join MAM or RED via irc interview, increase your user class with time and a little effort, and then you will unlock a subsection of forums where other trackers offer recruitment threads. Read the recruitment requirements, make sure you meet them, message the recruiter asking for an invite, wait patiently, and you’ll receive an invite link to join said tracker. Congratulations, you are now a member of your second private tracker! Repeat this process on tracker #2 until you have accounts everywhere your little heart desires. You are now “climbing the ladder.”
What’s at the top of the ladder? The cream of the crop trackers, those best in class communities that everyone wants but very few put in the work to actually join: the “cabal” sites. They are called cabal because the staff from cabal trackers will reach out to each other if you get caught breaking the rules, and you’re likely to be banned across the board on all cabal trackers you are a member of if your rule violation is bad enough. There is very little slack given at this level, so you best know what you’re doing.
And once you’ve climbed to the top, diversify. There are best in class usent indexers like the ones that prefer to not be discussed publicly, there are ddl sites like SIG, wdma sites that live on like unicorns as the piracy landscape shifts with gains and losses, forums specifically for piracy and tracker discussion, and of course…magic sites (good luck, better pack a lunch).
It’s a fun ride, being a part of all this. But it isn’t for everyone. Just find whatever works best for you and enjoy it for as long as you can.
I don’t use torrents that often. Just on occasions. I can’t find hardly any private torrents that will let me in. So I typically use real Debrid or a VPN with public torrents
Anime: Nyaa
TV/movie: Depending on my preferred quality public or private. If a usually private torrent is on public I will download it there first and then cross-seed
For movies, the best is PTP. It takes time and effort to join. Some more accessible alternatives would be BHD, BLU, and FL.
For TV, the best is BTN. They are currently closed outside of personal invites, so virtually impossible to join at the moment. Some more accessible alternatives would be MTV, BLU, and FL.
For music, the best is RED. They have a hard economy, so if you want any easier economy and overall experience the best alternative is OPS. Soulseek is also a must if you are looking for music.
For games, the best is GGn. Nothing really comes close in the private tracker ecosystem. There is PxC, but they are light-years behind in terms of breadth and depth of content. More accessible alternatives would be in the public tracker space like 1337x and Rutracker.
For audiobooks, the best is MAM, which is also the easiest private tracker to join for someone who is not on any private trackers yet. Start here, even if you’re not looking for audiobooks. Seriously, this is the best private tracker to learn the ropes on.
For ebooks, the best is BIb. I may be wrong, but I don’t think they are recruiting at the moment. A far more accessible alternative would be MAM.
For literally every single person who has asked, is currently asking, or will ask in the future some iteration of “how do I join these trackers/where do I start/can you invite me to tracker x,” the answer stays the same: join MAM or RED via irc interview, increase your user class with time and a little effort, and then you will unlock a subsection of forums where other trackers offer recruitment threads. Read the recruitment requirements, make sure you meet them, message the recruiter asking for an invite, wait patiently, and you’ll receive an invite link to join said tracker. Congratulations, you are now a member of your second private tracker! Repeat this process on tracker #2 until you have accounts everywhere your little heart desires. You are now “climbing the ladder.”
What’s at the top of the ladder? The cream of the crop trackers, those best in class communities that everyone wants but very few put in the work to actually join: the “cabal” sites. They are called cabal because the staff from cabal trackers will reach out to each other if you get caught breaking the rules, and you’re likely to be banned across the board on all cabal trackers you are a member of if your rule violation is bad enough. There is very little slack given at this level, so you best know what you’re doing.
And once you’ve climbed to the top, diversify. There are best in class usent indexers like the ones that prefer to not be discussed publicly, there are ddl sites like SIG, wdma sites that live on like unicorns as the piracy landscape shifts with gains and losses, forums specifically for piracy and tracker discussion, and of course…magic sites (good luck, better pack a lunch).
It’s a fun ride, being a part of all this. But it isn’t for everyone. Just find whatever works best for you and enjoy it for as long as you can.
I’m a primary TV/Anime person and I totally agree with this. I’m working on BTN and I joined BHD recently.
I highly suggest BHD for anime alongside AB because of the ZR releases.
For those trying to get into trackers, make friends and chat everywhere. You get invites by being a good community member and having a stick up your ass.
IPTorrents is very good.
RARBG was brilliant - even though it was a hybrid.
Torrentgalaxy seems to have all the good uploaders at the moment. I am pulling down some very high quality stuff - however, it seems to have gone down tonight.
I use qBittorent - any site that bans it is run by fuck wits.
I use private trackers for downloading content I want to keep local backups of but I also subscribe to a Plex share, hard to beat their on demand content library!
I use both, the private tracker is used mainly for latin Spanish media I gave it the highest priority with Radarr and Sonarr, but sometimes they’d pick something from public trackers too.
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Music: RED, DB9,
Games: GG
Movies: PTP, HDB
Managed to get an invite to a decent private tracker with a great selection. Ever since the downfall of RARBG I’ve basically been 90% private for most of my stuff. I relied very heavily on it. Like someone else said, public occasionally has things the private ones don’t. Private trackers may integrate public items into their communities.
It’s pretty common actually for private to integrate public content, anime especially since most encoders post to Nyaa.
For missing content I see a lot of people make requests and that usually gets filled pretty quickly. Nevertheless there will always be that one-off release that doesn’t exist private, and vice versa where it doesn’t exist publicly.
I use BTN and RED as backups for Usenet, otherwise I don’t use torrents
I’ve been after a BTN invite for a long time. Is there any chance you could help me out? I have great ratios on other private trackers. I know BTN doesn’t track that, but I always seed well beyond 1:1 for moral reasons.
Seeding 1 for 1 isn’t what they’re looking for in users as a general rule, they’re looking for people who will seed forever.
You’re probably more likely to meet people who have access to those sites in self hosting communities where they can share with friends who they know have the infrastructure to benefit those communities.
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I’ve been after a BTN invite for a long time. Is there any chance you could help me out? I have great ratios on other private trackers. I know BTN doesn’t track that, but I always seed well beyond 1:1 for moral reasons.
You’ve posted this twice in the same thread. Nobody likes an invite beggar.
What is the typical procedure to get an invite, though?
In general the procedure is to go through recruitment forums on trackers you are already in or occasionally interviews and open signups when starting out. For BTN specifically they have not opened recruitment in a long time and invites are few and far between. So right now you have to be get lucky and befriend someone with a very high ranking and is stacked with bp that can get you an invite.
In the process of setting up a media server using Unraid instead of just a HDD in my main PC. Seems like seeding regularly may become more viable - is the trick to just stay hooked up to a VPN continuously?
You don’t need a VPN for private trackers, the only risk is from IP Trolls, and they don’t have access to the tracker so they can’t see your IP address
How do we know the up trolls can’t find their way into the private trackers somehow? I’ve been using a VPN for seeding all my private tracker stuff because I’m a bit too paranoid about my ip being out there.
They could, but the effort is too high compared to public torrents. So why bother?
Ah, heard. So then once I get my shit together the trick then becomes weaseling my way into a private tracker and maintaining that sweet sweet ratio. Thank you!
Easiest way I’ve found to maintain a ratio is an old shitty laptop connected to storage seeding whatever free leech torrents you can find 24/7
I’d suggest trying usenet first. I found it far more friendly.
Sign up for frugal usenet. Sonarr, radarr, prowlarr, nzbget. Use trash-guides.info to do your set up correctly. No VPN needed since it’s over ssl. It’s cheaper than a VPN. And if you’re torrenting I’d still use a VPN, despite what that other guy says.
I joined PHD but couldn’t get my ratio up since there is no one downloading. Like, literally no one in anything besides brand new shit.
For movies, the best is PTP. It takes time and effort to join. Some more accessible alternatives would be BHD, BLU, and FL.
For TV, the best is BTN. They are currently closed outside of personal invites, so virtually impossible to join at the moment. Some more accessible alternatives would be MTV, BLU, and FL.
For music, the best is RED. They have a hard economy, so if you want any easier economy and overall experience the best alternative is OPS. Soulseek is also a must if you are looking for music.
For games, the best is GGn. Nothing really comes close in the private tracker ecosystem. There is PxC, but they are light-years behind in terms of breadth and depth of content. More accessible alternatives would be in the public tracker space like 1337x and Rutracker.
For audiobooks, the best is MAM, which is also the easiest private tracker to join for someone who is not on any private trackers yet. Start here, even if you’re not looking for audiobooks. Seriously, this is the best private tracker to learn the ropes on.
For ebooks, the best is BIb. I may be wrong, but I don’t think they are recruiting at the moment. A far more accessible alternative would be MAM.
For literally every single person who has asked, is currently asking, or will ask in the future some iteration of “how do I join these trackers/where do I start/can you invite me to tracker x,” the answer stays the same: join MAM or RED via irc interview, increase your user class with time and a little effort, and then you will unlock a subsection of forums where other trackers offer recruitment threads. Read the recruitment requirements, make sure you meet them, message the recruiter asking for an invite, wait patiently, and you’ll receive an invite link to join said tracker. Congratulations, you are now a member of your second private tracker! Repeat this process on tracker #2 until you have accounts everywhere your little heart desires. You are now “climbing the ladder.”
What’s at the top of the ladder? The cream of the crop trackers, those best in class communities that everyone wants but very few put in the work to actually join: the “cabal” sites. They are called cabal because the staff from cabal trackers will reach out to each other if you get caught breaking the rules, and you’re likely to be banned across the board on all cabal trackers you are a member of if your rule violation is bad enough. There is very little slack given at this level, so you best know what you’re doing.
And once you’ve climbed to the top, diversify. There are best in class usent indexers like the ones that prefer to not be discussed publicly, there are ddl sites like SIG, wdma sites that live on like unicorns as the piracy landscape shifts with gains and losses, forums specifically for piracy and tracker discussion, and of course…magic sites (good luck, better pack a lunch).
It’s a fun ride, being a part of all this. But it isn’t for everyone. Just find whatever works best for you and enjoy it for as long as you can.
I don’t use torrents that often. Just on occasions. I can’t find hardly any private torrents that will let me in. So I typically use real Debrid or a VPN with public torrents
Anime: Nyaa TV/movie: Depending on my preferred quality public or private. If a usually private torrent is on public I will download it there first and then cross-seed
For movies, the best is PTP. It takes time and effort to join. Some more accessible alternatives would be BHD, BLU, and FL.
For TV, the best is BTN. They are currently closed outside of personal invites, so virtually impossible to join at the moment. Some more accessible alternatives would be MTV, BLU, and FL.
For music, the best is RED. They have a hard economy, so if you want any easier economy and overall experience the best alternative is OPS. Soulseek is also a must if you are looking for music.
For games, the best is GGn. Nothing really comes close in the private tracker ecosystem. There is PxC, but they are light-years behind in terms of breadth and depth of content. More accessible alternatives would be in the public tracker space like 1337x and Rutracker.
For audiobooks, the best is MAM, which is also the easiest private tracker to join for someone who is not on any private trackers yet. Start here, even if you’re not looking for audiobooks. Seriously, this is the best private tracker to learn the ropes on.
For ebooks, the best is BIb. I may be wrong, but I don’t think they are recruiting at the moment. A far more accessible alternative would be MAM.
For literally every single person who has asked, is currently asking, or will ask in the future some iteration of “how do I join these trackers/where do I start/can you invite me to tracker x,” the answer stays the same: join MAM or RED via irc interview, increase your user class with time and a little effort, and then you will unlock a subsection of forums where other trackers offer recruitment threads. Read the recruitment requirements, make sure you meet them, message the recruiter asking for an invite, wait patiently, and you’ll receive an invite link to join said tracker. Congratulations, you are now a member of your second private tracker! Repeat this process on tracker #2 until you have accounts everywhere your little heart desires. You are now “climbing the ladder.”
What’s at the top of the ladder? The cream of the crop trackers, those best in class communities that everyone wants but very few put in the work to actually join: the “cabal” sites. They are called cabal because the staff from cabal trackers will reach out to each other if you get caught breaking the rules, and you’re likely to be banned across the board on all cabal trackers you are a member of if your rule violation is bad enough. There is very little slack given at this level, so you best know what you’re doing.
And once you’ve climbed to the top, diversify. There are best in class usent indexers like the ones that prefer to not be discussed publicly, there are ddl sites like SIG, wdma sites that live on like unicorns as the piracy landscape shifts with gains and losses, forums specifically for piracy and tracker discussion, and of course…magic sites (good luck, better pack a lunch).
It’s a fun ride, being a part of all this. But it isn’t for everyone. Just find whatever works best for you and enjoy it for as long as you can.
I’m a primary TV/Anime person and I totally agree with this. I’m working on BTN and I joined BHD recently.
I highly suggest BHD for anime alongside AB because of the ZR releases.
For those trying to get into trackers, make friends and chat everywhere. You get invites by being a good community member and having a stick up your ass.
IPTorrents is very good. RARBG was brilliant - even though it was a hybrid. Torrentgalaxy seems to have all the good uploaders at the moment. I am pulling down some very high quality stuff - however, it seems to have gone down tonight. I use qBittorent - any site that bans it is run by fuck wits.
I only use private trackers other than tigole releases that aren’t available as BHD release.
May also want to check out the Tracker communities for tracker specific discussion
!trackers@lemmy.dbzer0.com
!trackers@kbin.social
!trackers@lemmy.world
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I use two private trackers, all other torrents I funnel through real debrid so I get ddl speeds, also have usenet setup
I use private trackers for downloading content I want to keep local backups of but I also subscribe to a Plex share, hard to beat their on demand content library!
I use both, the private tracker is used mainly for latin Spanish media I gave it the highest priority with Radarr and Sonarr, but sometimes they’d pick something from public trackers too.