I’ll admit, when I first started torrent I was not really familiar with how it worked and how important seeding was. I would just use magnet links without configuration to save the torrent and seed after completion. Well… I have finally, got myself back to 1.00 after a couple months and working to try to always seed double what I get for each torrent.
Often times I was one of the few random seeders available for some of these torrents. Friendly reminder to give back because you never know when you’re one of the rare cases that can complete someones long lost file download!
Private trackers enforce ratios, and good private trackers reward long-term seeding, which is part of why I like private trackers.
I’m very proud of my CG account that turns seventeen next month.
EDIT: No I don’t have invites, before anyone asks.
Next year account legal to drink in eu. Marking date to drink one for your account.
EDIT: No I don’t have invites, before anyone asks.
Yeah, this is also a problem though. I’d love to be on a private tracker as I was in the past, but once you’re out it’s just too much of a hassle to get back in.
Buying your way into TL via seedbox promo is a solid way to get started. This won’t help for other sites but TL is miles better than all other public sites still available.
last time I gave out an invite to an internet rando I had to check with staff if it was allowed, it was, but the person never used their account so I just wasted an invite
Limited invites to give out, scarcity mindset, I’ve been there myself, so I understand.
I commend you, that account is considered vintage by now. I don’t even remember what computer I was running in 2008.
I’m honestly surprised CG has survived this long. Most of the other trackers I was on from that era are long gone.
Oink’s Pink Palace gone, What gone, baconBits gone, cheggit gone… I think the only two other than CG that still exist are indietorrents and empornium. I’m old now so the porn trackers no longer appeal to me.
There’s a private sports tracker I’ve heard of that rewards long-term seeding. What’s cool about that is that most sports events are only relevant for a few days and then people move on, this is especially true for big fans of certain teams who want the latest event. But, if you reward people for seeding, they’ll just keep some random game or event around for months. That means that if something suddenly becomes relevant months later, you can probably still find it.
I just deleted a Reddit account that old haha
What’s are private teachers? How do they reward long term seeding?
https://wiki.installgentoo.com/index.php/Private_trackers#What_is_a_private_tracker.3F
What is a private tracker?
A private tracker is a torrent website that provides the same functionality as a public tracker but is invite-only. This means you need to be a member to view the contents of the site and download its torrents. A tracker can either be semiprivate, where you can create an account for free by just registering your details, or fully private, where another user has to invite you. Within a tracker, there is usually an extensive set of rules covering how much one can download, what kind of content one can upload, what precautions one must take when logging into the site, etc. Such rules and content vary from tracker to tracker, and go from rather liberal with little enforcement to ultra-paranoid and autistic
Thank you!
Usually they give users points of credit to download more torrents: Users that don’t seed will burn through their download credits and won’t be able to download.
Other trackers will also give you points for every hour you seed a torrent (usually X points per gigabyte per hour) which encourages seeding even if the given file isn’t as popular, or so popular that other seeders choke you out of uploading to other users.
They also offer freeleech torrents that don’t count toward your DL ratio to help stimulate the “economy.”
All this is blowing my mind. How interesting
I forgot how fantastic Demonoid was around 2008. It was a fucking utopia.
Those were the halcyon days, for sure,
Da good stuff
We thank you for your service
pretty proud of my ratio of 6 yrs
I mean have you really only downloaded less than 500gb or is almost everything free seed and doesn’t count on your download stats.
Eitherway nice seeding, good job
yeah, I mostly download free seeds and I don’t think that adds to the download count, I’ve definitely downloaded more than 500gb
Normal ratio on private sites with free seed torrents because your download is heavily distorted
This reminds me that I had to limit my public seeding.
Accidentally did 65TB in 18 days.
Yeah… It’s still going so fuck it.
To be fair this is actually a linux ISO.
Between my bad Internet connection and my apparent tendency to be the very last person who decides to download any given torrent, I just gave up and paid my private tracker to ignore my seed ratio ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Maybe your VPN or internet doesn’t have port forwarding? That severely limits seeding potential.
I used to think seeding well was impossible, no matter how many files you seed the ratio just doesn’t get better. Then I tried a port forwarding enabled VPN and realised that was my issue.
I seed with out port forwarding yeah it aint much but over time it is works out.
Port forwarding more than 10xed my seeding so if you can give that a shot.
Hoping to hit 400 TB uploaded this year :3
That’s the spirit!
My rule of thumb has always been to share to ratio 1.1. Side thought: Maybe there’s a funny correlation between birthrates needing to be 2.1 for a stable population, the extra .1 to make up for deaths, and well, the 2 is because it takes two to make a baby.Anyway, since we're all sharing, these are my stats from 41 days ago when I switched to Nobara.
(Gigabit internet is the biggest luxury I allow myself to splurge on.)You can back up those by copying ~/.local/share/qBittorrent and ~/.config/qBittorrent
I did go out of my way to check creation date and modified date on those folders to try and assess whether I had copied the statistics over from my distrohop. Might’ve been old stats plus new, I’m not too sure. I should really start using
cp -ainstead of just drag’n’drop in dolphin…I mean, dragging and dropping in dolphin worked for me… Idk…
It’s just that the original timestamps are lost that way. With
cp -aI would’ve kept the original “created on” date. My memory is so shot I can barely remember what I did last week, let alone 42 days ago, whether I copied over those stats or not…
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pretty proud of my TL ratioGood work! Love seeing a fellow seeder on here!
Such a great community. I also love that this thread had just become good ratio porn 🤤
Giving back is good but once I realize how much I hate companies that own the media I have been seeding these Linux iso extra hard out of spite!
This is the way.
Wow I didnt realize I was this close…I wish I could seed but Mullvad doesn’t allow port forwarding, and ProtonVPN has given out IPs under court order so I don’t trust them for any purpose.
I’ll have to look into other VPNs I think, because I’m ideologically very much for seeding.
You can still seed without port forwarding. This machine is running behind Mullvad
Is there a guide? I have the same problem.
Edit: seems like that one person in the swarm has to have port forwarding enabled. So if you can’t port forward, you need someone else to and then you can upload to them.
AirVPN is the other choice here that offers port forwarding still.
Thank you ! I’ll go check that out 🙂
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Afaik, they were forced to log and report IP addresses for the user’s mail logins.
They can’t do that for their VPN, though, so I’ve seen some people recommend you create your account through another VPN or via their Onion service, and then only connect with the VPN on.
This seems fragile at best, and isn’t helped by the fact the most anonymous payment option they accept is cash by mail, which is still quite traceable. They also take bitcoin, which is extremely traceable.
If they expand to accept Monero, I’ll reconsider, but for now I’m sticking with Mullvad. I use mailbox.org for mail, which does log IP addresses (for 4 days), but it is a separate account from my VPN so I don’t really care.
I’m also put off by their recent posts supporting the Republican Party. It is really strange for a privacy company to support authoritarians, and the addition of them leaving Mastodon but staying on Xitter doesn’t inspire much confidence in them.
When I am seeding a torrent with less than 5 seeders I just let it go forever. So far I have about 15 of those. Eventually I’ll have to drop them… but I’ll be there hero until then.
I miss eMule though. I always loved to share some rare exotic stuff and see someone decided they want that and I provided it. It’s not just about bandwidth, though I had pretty big numbers there. Torrents just don’t hit the same.
Soulseek is still kicking ass and taking names, bruh
If you’re on linux check out the Nicotine+ native linux client for soulseek
I know, but I still miss my donkey. It was slow but stubborn and always delivered eventually. Also it was mesmerizing watching all the clients and traffic happening and watching KAD nodes visualization. Good times. It’s still there but because it now always connects with LowID it doesn’t work as good as it did with HighID…
How is this different than say Qbit?
Soulseek has no torrents and no swarms. It’s a classic, direct peer-to-peer connection between you and another user. You have to choose to share items in your library, like in the old days. Most file sharing like this was shut down two decades ago now since bittorrent was alive and kicking in 2001 and became the dominant way to share files. However, Soulseek has somehow flown under the radar and kept chugging along. It’s my premier place to find obscure music I can’t find anywhere else.
Ed2k/kad network still have good health with new and old stuff
Problem is how most networks are configured today that prevent HighID on eMule, severely crippling it. It used to be annoying to have LowID in the past and reconnecting usually fixes it, now it’s a given and you can’t get out of it. It’s so hard to get uploads going and it makes me sad :(
The problem with HighID/LowID on eMule is the same on bittorrent or any other p2p, you need someone with port forwarding to upload/download content. In my case I am out of cg-nat and sharing 24/7.
It’s not. Bittorrent uses newer methods to connect that work with current network configurations where eMule devs stubbornly refused because it would create some overhead like we’re still stuck on 56k or ISDN era and never improved it.
Apparently there is a way using VPN with P2P, but I’m not gonna pay for it just to run eMule…
Nope, it is the same. Bittorrent have a lot more users than eMule and then you have more possibilities to find a peer with ports forwarded. 2 peers Without port forwarded can not share content.
I have ports forwarded locally to deal with my router, that doesn’t apply to my ISP down the line. And that’s the problem. I don’t know the specifics, but that’s how it was explained to me.
I have ports forwarded locally to deal with my router, that doesn’t apply to my ISP down the line.
So you are under CGNAT: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrier-grade_NAT
From the wikipedia link:
Carrier-grade NAT usually prevents the ISP customers from using port forwarding, because the network address translation (NAT) is usually implemented by mapping ports of the NAT devices in the network to other ports in the external interface. This is done so the router will be able to map the responses to the correct device; in carrier-grade NAT networks, even though the router at the consumer end might be configured for port forwarding, the “master router” of the ISP, which runs the CGN, will block this port forwarding because the actual port would not be the port configured by the consumer.[7] In order to overcome the former disadvantage, the Port Control Protocol (PCP) has been standardized in the RFC 6887.
You will only be able to upload to someone with a public ip address or with UDP hole punch (but there are some technicalities - and doesn’t work in all the cases). The same will happen if you use torrents. Maybe you don’t notice difference because of the sheer amount of people using seedboxes and vpn.
Maybe your ISP uses cg-nat and you can ask them to opt-out or find and ISP with this option.
Way to go, keep it up!
Took me a while to find the stats tab, I didnt know it was available lol
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Those are rookie numbers. You need to pump those numbers up.
