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[–] AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works 20 points 4 days ago (3 children)

Apparently being on private trackers has significantly skewed my sense of what's normal sharing stats

[–] Zombie@feddit.uk 26 points 4 days ago (2 children)
[–] TriflingToad@sh.itjust.works 6 points 3 days ago (2 children)

I don't understand the point of a private tracker tbh

[–] jerkface@lemmy.ca 4 points 3 days ago

You'll know when you need it. Until then, don't sweat it.

[–] OutlierBlue@lemmy.ca 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Me neither. I've never been a member on one, but I don't have too much trouble finding and downloading what I need.

[–] ober@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 3 days ago (1 children)

For a lot of people, it's a community thing. I'm a member on Orpheus and they have a lot of great community stuff like Album of the Month, user made scripts, tutorials, forums, etc. They can also have a lot higher quality content and moderation because they're so "exclusive". And, for music, a private tracker is gonna be 100x better than a public one or Soulseek.

[–] commie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 days ago

is it better than hoopla

[–] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 4 days ago

opensignups on reddit and invitehawk

[–] lightnsfw@reddthat.com 11 points 4 days ago

My private tracker ratios are shit. If it wasn't for the points systems they have for seeding I wouldn't be able to do anything on them. Every so often one will randomly take off but most of the time they get stuck around like .04 even on brand new uploads. Fortunately I can find pretty much everything on public tracker. My ratio on those is far better. For example I have Godzilla Minus One from both a private tracker and public. The public one is at like 45 and the private one is like .6 both were downloaded within a day or two of each other back when everyone was pirating that movie. I would be seeding so much more shit from my private trackers if I didn't have to worry about upload ratio.

[–] yetAnotherUser@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

In what way? My "real" torrents from private trackers have at most a ratio of 4.0, with most of them just slightly above 1.0 (and a bunch even below 1.0).

Nah, I wasn't being serious, just making with the funny