I have off and on through the years downloaded some things by using magnet links from The Pirate Bay. I’ve been working on a nice NAS (DS923+) setup that is now running Jellyseerr, Jellyfin, QBittorrent, Radarr, and Sonarr. Everything seems to be linked up, and my media is being hosted a-okay. However, in order to get the Jellyseerr / Radarr / Sonarr bit working, I need proper indexers. I have never really understood this world. I know I need an invite, and I just missed a window with one. I’m trying to figure what is best and how to get in the in-crowd.
Can anybody instruct on how these trackers work when compared to just pulling from TPB. Also, how can one get hooked up with an invite. I didn’t want to ask this on my main account for obvious reasons, but I’m sure many people could benefit from learning this too; especially as the media landscape gets worse and worse.
I’ve dropped you a pm.
I’m trying to figure what is best and how to get in the in-crowd.
I feel like you’re probably better off posting on [email protected] than here.
The lead admin and a lot of the /r/piracy crowd came over from Reddit.
Check out /r/OpenSignups on reddit for private trackers opening their doors for new users. There are a couple clones of it here on lemmy but they’re both dead. You dont need to get into top tier stuff and if you see people saying otherwise they’re just bragging about their “secret little club.” Im in several midrange trackers and have zero issues finding content, new or old, using these with a few public trackers like 1337x and TPB as a fallback.
Once you get in make sure you read and follow the rules. The big thing is to seed your downloads for however long they say minimum but preferably as long as possible as you’ll likely gain bonus points doing this which you can then turn in for upload credit.
Downloading freeleech content is also a good way to build ratio.
My gf and I watch all of the newest shows, and I host a lot of older media as well, all obtained using the arr stack with public trackers through Prowlarr.
I’ve recently tried some open signups to private trackers and even tried prioritizing them, but the majority of my media still comes from public trackers.
Oh interesting. I’m just now finding out about prowlarr. I’ll have to learn more.
Integrates so flawlessly with the arr stack, honestly. Iirc, it’s even part of the community install script.
Look for open signups threads, do an interview. Alternately, have a friend who will give you an invite. Although it’s a lot easier to get in if you already have a private tracker account with good ratio and good standing, that helps a lot in getting accepted via open signups.
There’s a small number of trackers with absurdly easy signup processes.
The main difference is community and upload standards as well as often having ratio requirements that can be loose or strict depending on the specific tracker.
have a friend
you lost me
The most difficult part of the whole process.
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I don’t know the answer to your question (I am a real noob with torrenting), but you may also post this to [email protected] just to cast a wider net for answers.
For most of those trackers you have to be invited by someone already a member. Sometimes they’ll have an open application or registration timeframe, but generally you have to have an invite.
From the one side used in the past, they usually track only the high quality releases, more complete multi-language options, and will often have new releases quickest through partnerships with the various groups that make the releases.
They usually have minimum seed requirements. Most often 1:1 ratio minimums and/or minimum timeframes like 30 day seeding. And they’ll have some sort of punishment or banning system of you fail to maintain this for an extended period.
To help facilitate those requirements a lot of people use dedicated seedboxes and copy files locally for use. There are a lot of options for that available across a ton of price points, as low as like $5/mo or so for enough space for a single user as long as you clean stuff out after the seeding minimums.
The semi-automated system I had setup at one point used Jackett (tracker index), Jellyseer (media requests), Sonarr/Radarr (release search and download management), ruTorrent (seedbox torrent), SyncThing (seedbox to local NAS file copy), and then Emby/Jellyfin/Plex (local media management).
