Whats your preference? Why?

  • QualifiedKitten@kbin.social
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    9 months ago

    I don’t have any experience with Usenet or any current DDL sources. I generally check public trackers first, then private trackers, and mostly use private trackers when I can’t find something on public trackers.
    My selfish reasoning is that with public trackers, I don’t have to worry about my seed ratio, etc. I generally seed to a 3.0 ratio, and I do have some older/more niche stuff set to infinity, but when I need to clear some space in my seed box, it’s nice to be able to delete stuff without worrying I’ll be penalized.
    From a less selfish perspective, if it exists in decent quality on public trackers, I’d rather contribute to keeping it alive there, where more people can access it.

    • drunkensailor@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      9 months ago

      From a less selfish perspective, if it exists in decent quality on public trackers, I’d rather contribute to keeping it alive there, where more people can access it.

      This is the way. If more people did this then arguably no one would even need private trackers…

    • yeehaw@lemmy.ca
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      9 months ago

      This is a surefire way to get a letter from your ISP or authorities.

  • Markoff@kbin.social
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    9 months ago

    public tracker I can easily search directly from qbit, also good for newest releases

    Pahe for DDL stuff, if I want better X265 quality at small size (PSA used to be good, but they fucked up something and I can’t play their X265 rips anymore on TV, X265 Pahe rips always work)

    ain’t gonna pay for usenet or getting invited to private tracker

  • spiderman@ani.social
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    9 months ago

    Usenet. You can download files at high speeds and don’t have to fulfill any requirements. But it’s insanely hard to get into the top usenet indexers.

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              9 months ago

              Seriously? I’m subscribed to eweka and news hosting for nntp, as well as nzbgeek and nzbfinder for my indexers. Nzbgeek has a lifetime subscription option. You can get anything you’re looking for. It’s a simple subscription process.

              What are you considering as ‘top tier’ that won’t take a subscription?

              Some sites for reference:

              https://reddit.com/r/usenet/w/indexers?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share

              • spiderman@ani.social
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                9 months ago

                sorry to break your bubble, they are good but they aren’t the top tier usenet indexers i am talking about.

                the top tier i am talking about has a “fight club’s rule 1”. they take donations but simply won’t give you an account if you are willing to get inside.

                • beaxingu@kbin.run
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                  9 months ago

                  Usenet is easier to take down because its a centralized server and you essentially just pay for retention of files. the better Usenet providers have longer retention.

  • ANIMATEK@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    I have private trackers and Usenet and my quality profiles in the *arrs mostly always pick from torrents. I will cancel my Usenet subscription. I also kinda like the grind of private trackers just for the heck of it.

  • skankhunt42@lemmy.ca
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    9 months ago

    At first, anything that was free. Then I found the *arrs, moved to Usenet and never looked back.

    • funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works
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      9 months ago

      how did you get started moving from public to private and what does your average workflow look like?

      I just started with a handful of Public trackers and they do okay, but I’d like to do a bit better.

      On the other hand I don’t want to have to invest a huge amount of effort buddying up to complete strangers just to get the latest episode of University Challenge.

      • skankhunt42@lemmy.ca
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        9 months ago

        I can give you an invite to IPTorrents PM me an email if you want it and I’ll send next time I’m on my laptop.

        Honestly, I got IPT access from a coworker, and I keep an eye out for open registration on trackers I want. I don’t use them anymore, I just use sonarr/radarr with Usenet now. If that can’t find it, I use jackett, then go to YouTube or google if I still can’t find it.