Hey yall, just for fun I had the idea of making our own community tier list for trackers. Lumping them all together regardless of category, just rating them on how well they do what they do.
Commit if you have any changes or additions and I will update!
S-Tier
- HDBits (HDB) - Movies/TV
- PassThePopcorn (PTP) - Movies
- BroadcasTheNet (BTN) - TV
- Redacted (RED) - Music
- GazelleGames (GGn) - Games
A-Tier
- Anthelion (ANT) - Moives
- Nebulance (NBL) - TV
- BeyondHD (BHD) - Movies/TV
- Blutopia (Blu) - Movies/TV
- MoreThanTV (MTV) - Movies/TV
- Orpheus - Music
- AnimeBytes (AB) - Anime
- Bibliotik (BiB) - eBooks
- TorrentLeech (TL) - General
- Empornium (EMP) - P0rn
B-Tier
- Aither - General
- Alpharatio (AR) - General
- FileList (FL) - General
- IPTorrents (IPT) - General
- MyAnonaMouse (MAM) - eBooks
C-Tier
- Bit-HDTV - Movies/TV
- Nyaa - Anime
Orpheus is probably A-tier if it’s being compared to S-tier Redacted, but both are quite good now.
Also, GGn has never changed its mission statement or quality but I feel like the rise of Fitgirl/DODI/KaOs, cs.rin, and Clean Steam File (CSF) ripping has really left them in the dust and failing to adapt. I wish GGn would start tracking sha256-matched clean source files and AIO delta updates so I can apply my own cracks to up-to-date versions of games. As is I barely ever use GGn anymore because the games they track are always out of date by nature of infrequent scene/P2P releases.
Sounds like I’m also behind, as someone who only plays older games and they are always on there when I search haha. So you think it should be moved down?
I’ll go ahead and place orpheus, thanks for contributing!
I don’t think GGn should be moved down per se because they’ve done nothing wrong and they are high quality for what they aim to do, but I do wish they kept on the pulse of gaming piracy a bit more. I would also say compared to titans like BTN/PTP/RED, GGn’s catalog isn’t as meticulously filled out, so I would maybe vote for A-tier instead of S-tier. I would understand if others think S-tier though.
Additional trackers and my ratings. Curious to see anyone’s take on them.
I highly appreciate a well organized tracker that also accommodates the *arr suite. Also if it’s the best in its category, even if it doesn’t hit the mark on other factors.
If drama doesn’t affect normal use of the website, then it’s not a big factor for me. I only seriously got into the private tracker scene 2 years ago.
Should we include public trackers?
S tier
A tier
- Anthelion (ANT) - Movie
- Avistaz - Movie/TV
- Nebulance (NBL) - TV
- Jpopsuki - Japanese Music
- Sportcult - Sports
B tier
- Aither - General
- Alpharatio (AR) - General
- BtArg - Spanish General
- Cathode-Ray Tube (CRT) - Movie/TV
- Hawke-Uno - Movie/TV
- HD-torrents - Movie/TV
- Only-encodes+ - Movie/TV
- RUtracker - General
- Sharewood - French General
- Secretcinema - Movie
- Xspeeds - General
- YGGTorrent - French General
C tier
- 1337x - General
- eztv - TV
- Speed.cd - General
- torrentgalaxy - General
D Tier Avoid?
- thepiratebay - General
Oh wow, this is a big list lol. Haven’t heard of someone of these so will take a bit to work through it, but thanks for contributing!
Oh and I wasn’t planning on including public trackers, I just made an exception for Nyaa since it’s so well regarded in it’s category.
Also wasn’t planning on including too many hyper niche trackers as I was planning to make another post about those later.
I’ve heard a bit about Anthelion and Nebulance, is the retention there good?
Yes, retention is very good on ANT and NBL. If it wasn’t of the past drama of the site owner, they would be A tier trackers on everyone’s lists IMHO.
It’s a fun compilation, happy to contribute something to it. Happy to give more info if need be.
Maybe the releases I was looking for aren’t widely available, but neither Oxtorrent, Torrent911, nor YGGTorrent seemed to be better for finding French releases than a tracker like 1337x is for finding English ones. On another note, while I’m still on the lookout for an AlphaRatio invite, research seems to indicate that it’s at least better than TorrentLeech. Conversely, unless PrivateHD is not as good as other trackers on the Avistaz network, it didn’t seem to have anything TorrentLeech didn’t last time I checked.
You know, I think I was too generous for YGGtorrent. Lately it has been hard to connect it to autobrr and Prowlarr. More of a B tier tracker. I heard good things about HD-Only but it’s been difficult to register. Qctorrent and t411 were the good days.
On the other hand, TL has been a pleasant surprise. I had an account with them for 5 years but forgot and never bothered until recently. It constantly has choice, retention, and decent monitoring. Many TV shows I have also release fast. What stands out is that it’s been very easy to build up my ratio. AR has been similar to TL but it’s taking me three times as long to build up ratio.
Avistaz is specifically for Asian content. Very good for hard to find stuff and their request community is excellent.
FileList seems to be recommended as an easily-accessible private torrent tracker in the same way that TorrentLeech is. In my experience FileList isn’t nearly as likely to have a release in contrast to TorrentLeech, but for what it does have many releases seem to be well-seeded. I’d suggest putting it in the B-Tier.
I have no idea where in the list it would rank but I’ve been a longtime user of pornolab.net. I don’t know how it compares with other porn trackers because I don’t have access to them. I’d love to get access to empornium but I don’t know anyone with an invite.
Iptorrents has some porn but I mostly use it for movies and TV shows. Curious why it’s considered b-tier because I’ve had a very good experience there.
Redacted is awesome though, I agree with its s-tier rating. I didn’t know anyone with an invite but I was able to get through their interview/application process.
Again I said it’s subjective, if people want something changed I’ll change it! There’s been lots of complaints about IPT over the years of shady stuff going down, people losing their accounts of no reason, them wanting bribes to get back on the site, etc. I’ll agree the content is good, but the site itself and staff are not. I could see it being maybe an A tier imo, certainly not S.
Maybe someone else can chime in with what they think of pornolab compared to emp.
I would say BHD, BLU, and MTV are all solidly A tier.