Foobar2k is amazing and still has a very active community making extensions and plugins.

This is the best of the really big general trackers. It’s not perfect, but pretty close for a tracker of its size. Much better than IPT and FL in my opinion. I use this more than any other tracker just out of convenience and the fact the swarms are always so big.

Oatmeal please. If you want to be anonymous on the internet, use TOR not a VPN.

I think it’s the older way around. There are really only 3 or 4 countries where using a VPN to pirate is needed. I’m just willing to bet you live in one of those countries.

You would reuse the same password or use the same password with slight variations. I would also often see passwords written down on sticky notes. People sometimes has different passwords but stores them unencrypted in password.xls or something similarly named.

Thank God for password managers these days. I haven’t refused the same password for many years now. I generate three random words with a number and special character for all my passwords.

Jackett can be run on any computer. It doesn’t need a server or any serious hardware. It can probably be run on a $20 Pi. It’s just allows you to interact with trackers via API calls.

I use Prowlarr via Docker now a days. It’s provides a much better experience to interact with othe instances of ARRs.

Appreciate the well thought out reply. I came to Lemmy for good discussion like this. It makes me happy to know that people with suffering points can still have a conversation on the internet without turning into a flame war or downvoted brigade. Appreciate you.

The comment section of Digg was very different from Reddit. The Digg redesign was the original reason I ended up moving to Reddit.

Their were some one word replies and grammar mistakes but it was certainly not the norm in the subs I frequented at the time.

I can’t say much about other social media sites, as Reddit is the only one I have used with any regularity.

I would just keep my PC on 24/7. Did that for a good decade before I built a server. Now the ARR stacks make torrenting on private sites effortless.

This is one of the main reasons Republicans don’t like education. They want to dismantle it and go to a charter system. That way they can profit off education and keep people stupid.

Running qBittorrent over web UI was a game changer. I was running it off a personal PC for the longest time (usually my newest gaming machine) but finally built a dedicated server.

Whose ready for some AOL ultimate Frisbee?

To answer the question, I don’t think they should be used for anything. Keep a small stack for a rainy day and get rid of the rest. There is a reason they are all it thrift stores and being given away for free. Their are much better alternatives out their for storage. Unless you are a hoarder. Then, just add them to your pile of crap you will never use/need again.

I have burned thousands of CD/DVDs in my life but maybe only 10 in the past 15 years or so.

Having a small community is a blessing and a curse. Reddit grew too large of a user base, and the quality of interactions took a significant decline around 2015 or so. I’m hoping Lemmy (and federation in general) can bring back what I found special about Reddit around 2009-2010.

I see some of the issues that Reddit has (one-word or low-effort comments, people not reading the article, atrocious grammar/spelling), but it doesn’t seem to be the norm. I’ve been visiting Lemmy for around a year but have finally decided to stop using Reddit and become active over here.

Is every person being sent back a rapist of a 12 year old or are people getting caught up on the system? Either way, I’m all for sending the rapist to prison at our expensive. I don’t want to send them back to Afghanistan where they certainly will have no repurcuasions for raping a 12 year old girl. I think rape isn’t okay anywhere in the world. I dont support sending immigrants back, because I don’t support rape.

I’ve been using private trackers for 20 years. I just know what I like.

Pay to leech refers to paying to download without contributing anything. It’s a pretty common phrase in the piracy and specifically BitTorrent scene. It’s not ONLY pay to leech, but pay to leech is an option.

You will notice that the higher tiered trackers do not give this option out for donations.

Listen you have to pay the bills. I get it. I don’t think your site is terrible by any means, but their are some things I don’t agree with. It’s your site. You do whatever you want with it. It’s obviously successful.

I’m just offering my opinion. I’ve been around the block and have been an admin of a tracker before. I’ve been using private trackers since before Oink was around. I’ve seen my fair share of terrible sites and amazing sites. You run a good entry level tracker but don’t assume everyone is attacking your. It’s just 0s and 1s. Much love.

The need this came out of COVID and a lack of people wanting to go out. It’s was a decent way to keep business open who would otherwise have to lay off all their staff. Once COVID ended, I assumed it would go away. However, money talks.

My wife was just saying how she thiks GPS is soon going to have a VIP tier to give you the best routes and the longer routes go to the people who don’t pay (but still have their data harvested).

This looks like something I would make with Bryce 3D back in the early 2000s but with better lighting. Really enjoy this.

Lots of leechers and decent amount of seeders. Content is decent for a general tracker. It’s a mix of scene and p2p releases. Moderation of uploads was an issue initially but doesn’t seem to be a problem anymore. You could do more much worse and this is a great spot for anyone looking to enter into the private tracker world.

Biggest negative is that it is pay to leech. I get that they need to pay the server bills but they go real hard asking for donations. Also, the sys op had it out on Reddit a few months (maybe a year) back. Not sure what came of it or why, but it definitely caused a stir.

I don’t think their core values necessarily align with mine when it comes to piracy. Pay to leech is only found on low-mid tier trackers for a reason. It brings bad user and keeps away the advanced users.

It would be betterest if we could organize this on a large coordinated scale. God help any AI that has been trained on any social media website. It’s just not good quality data a large percentage of the time.