Whats your preference? Why?
Yeah the work to be one of the cool kids of private trackers just seems a little much
At first, anything that was free. Then I found the *arrs, moved to Usenet and never looked back.
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.
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.
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.
If I download something:
I don’t care about quality:
Public > Private > Usenet > DDL
If I care about quality:
Private/Usenet> Public (I will download public if the group is the same) > DDL
I can’t find it:
Anything that has some part of it. Usually DDL or some streaming site.
