They’ve had long downtimes in the past, feel like they just really don’t get in a hurry lol.

Why it’s good to have a backup or two.

Yea I'm referring less to personal rankings and more of a generalization. Aka how well does the tracker do what it set out to do. If it's a movie tracker, has a huge library of everything you could want, old torrents are still well seeded, the site is well designed, etc, then it's high tier.

For me, red has everything I could want, but it seems in your opinion they are missing stuff. Which could mean in a generalizing sense it could be lower than I rated it which is why I wanted to get other peoples opinion.

Also I'm trying to keep extremely niche trackers off the list as I planned to make another post about them later to add to the megathread like I will this one.

Here soon I'm going to update the pinned megathread and include links to all worthwhile posts from myself and other users, such as this one.

I just got in to FL from PTP invite forum myself. Don’t think they do open signups, worst case I can hook you up when I get my first invites down the road lol

Man I’ve been out of the loop bc I didn’t even know about this until this post.

I would 100% be on board, I could even do some encoding again like the good ole days lol.

If something newer and even better came out the tracker could always pivot and adapt. Basically could be the “early adopter” movie tracker, which I’m all about.

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!

Yea I noticed that, was one of my reasons to make this post, if we get a small team rather than one person, more chance of it remaining active.

Also would be cool to have all piracy topics centralized on one instance.

Like he said, not just trackers but most niche communities on here don’t have much traffic. I mean most niche subs are slow even on Reddit, r/trackers included, and there is a fraction of the traffic here. Lemmy is very much in its early slow buildup phase.

I’m the admin here and I’ve just been kinda chillin while the platform user base grows. Been meaning to put out more guides but been busy starting a new job.

I’d happily mod anyone who wants to help contribute.

Yea, no guarantee it's up-to-date, but inviteroute says Blutopia and UHDBits have official recruitment.

Yea honestly, could be the bitrate but to me they don't look as good as most of the x264/x265 encodes. Also searched through HDBits forum and seems like they also have qualms about the quality, but aren't sure if its do the format itself or just the early stage of the available encoders and lack of options.

Still, the size alone is still a big plus and I'm sure many people would still be interested even with a degrade in quality, and I'm sure it will only get better with time.

Didn't feel like making a standalone post, but Blutopia is also doing something similar. Although I'll admit looking over their application it kinda seems like a hassle..

blutopia.cc/application

True, I'm going to signup, need some more tv/movie trackers in my rotation, HDBits a little too hardcore to make a full replacement for the more casual PTP.

I like the idea.. I was actually thinking of doing something similar, was going to post a community tier list haha, could supplement this. Anyways, here's my input. I'm on team IPT staff hater, the content is great tho for a general tracker.

Quality of Content: 7

Content retention: 7

Speed of new content: 8

Administration/Mods: 3

Community/other users: N/A

Forums: N/A

Rules: 5

Ease of ratio: 9

Overall: 7

I like it. Done. Thanks for contributing!

Route most people take is they get in their first private tracker x, then on that tracker get an invite to tracker y, then on tracker y someone invites them to tracker z. Eventually you start to rack them up. I started at Demonoid in like 2005, now I have every tracker I could want lol.

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?

That's what I was thinking but good to hear it confirmed, I'll go ahead and add them, thanks!

I could probably drum up a lot of reasons, but if i had to pick one, I would say retention. I can decide I want to download an obscure movie that was uploaded 15 years ago and not only is it still on there, but I can usually even download it at full speed.

I mean you did bring up a valid answer, word of mouth, aka here lol