Whats your preference? Why?
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
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.
What do you mean? Just pay a subscription fee. Or am I missing something?
DDL
Public trackers for filesize over quality and modern codecs like av1 or x265. Private trackers for harder to find stuff or good quality over filesize.
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.
