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Filelist is no longer shutting down (i.postimg.cc)

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[–] [email protected] 88 points 10 months ago (2 children)

One of the founders of the website, God, is back

Damn, that's some divine providence!
Glad they had a happy ending

[–] [email protected] 18 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

@QuazarOmega Checkmate atheists!!!

[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago

Me omw to bless my ship before sailing

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago

I mean we’ve all been looking for signs of the apocalypse lately, right? Can’t be coincidence.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Well, thanks to FileList I finally managed to catch an open signup at TorrentLeech.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 10 months ago

@uninvitedguest Now you can really call yourself a Torrent Leech, haha!

[–] [email protected] 17 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Can someone explain to me why you use private trackers? Is it because of the possibility to request older stuff etc? Would love to know the advantages compared to torrentgalaxy for example

[+] [email protected] 32 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I tried out my first private tracker with SceneTime.

Literally no benefit over a public tracker that I can see.

Selection is smaller, all torrents have a max of 30 seeders that I have seen. Most have 2-3.
Impossible to get a good ratio without seeding an unwanted popular torrent because niche content will have like 3 downloads per year.
Tons of abandoned torrents or torrents with 1 seeder
Almost 0 content older than 10 years unless it is very popular

Maybe I am not integrated enough with the community, and my stupid ISP has extreme asymmetrical speeds that max my upload at 30Mbps, but I mostly still use a public tracker where when I seed, people will actually leech.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Not all private trackers are equal. I’ve never heard of SceneTime.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Blu-ray, remux, and encodes vs TGX's 2 gb

They are available at public trackers too. The only stuff that isn't there in public is the more obscure stuff, but you can try 4chan's torrents board to search for it.

Seed to leech ratios are better, fast downloads.

Massively depends on the tracker.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I THINK the idea is you don't need a VPN with a private tracker. Other then that, the selection is usually better, and the seeders have faster uploads.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 10 months ago (1 children)

You should always use a VPN, doesn’t matter if the tracker is public or private. And yes, better selection, seeding requirements, and better speeds.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago

All of what this person said!

I still use public trackers though, mainly because I want my seeds to actually benefit others, not fill up some arbitrary private tracker counter.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago

Faster and more reliable seeders, better opsec, better uploads (due to stricter rules), wider variety of content, and better community features. There's more but that's what immediately comes to mind for me.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Apologies for my ignorance, but can someone tell me what file list is or where i can find more information?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 10 months ago

@MoshBit Sure. Filelist is a (mostly) Romanian private tracker (the website is available in English as well, though). It is also kinda hugely popular here (pretty much the most popular Romanian torrent website altogether). A couple of days ago, the admin announced that due to personal issues and being unable to find a replacement, the website would shut down. Now a solution was found.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago

Private torrent tracker. Invite only, to my knowledge.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 10 months ago

lmfao any sane person that's been on private trackers won't give invites to randoms. that's how you get banned.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago

Title sounds like it shut down half way and then stopped there

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Does someone has a spare invite to share? Thanks in Advance

[–] [email protected] -2 points 10 months ago

What's FileList? Why does it need invites?