Torrent. Started using torrents in the 2000's. Stopped for a while, but now I'm back to torrenting. Searching for and curating my collection is part of the fun for me.
this post was submitted on 25 Jun 2023
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I use sonarr, radarr, overseer, prowlarr, and a bunch of other shit.
I exclusively use torrents. Everything is automated and in dockers. No reason to use Usenet IMO. It gets me nothing torrents don’t already do.
I'm using torrents much less since fmovies. I just stream my shows and movies now. Music is also getting harder to find so I went back to Soulseek. For everything else, I'm using Tribler, an open source torrent client using onion routing.
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I rely on usenet for 90+% of content acquisition, but I have torrents for stuff I can't easily find or older content that is not recent release.
Torrents, I like the community and indefinite retention. And with 1gbps home connections becoming more common staying in ratio has become way easier.
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I see multiple private torrent tracker users in here. I primarily use Usenet, but is anyone willing to shed some light on the private torrent scene? Wouldn't mind having a backup for anything that fails on Usenet but don't have a clue where to even start research on good/reputable private trackers.
I'm on 4 private trackers. (All invite only, none currently available)
My experience has been pretty good. They're all relatively niche, and have a surprising ly deep library within their interest.
For me, the only drawback is that some days there can be a small group of seeders (and occasionally none) on certain files. But that can change day-to-day.
But the biggest bonus, I've never had to worry about getting a copyright warning on any thing I've got from any of them.
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Been on torrent for many years, recently started using the *arr stack, it's fantastic. For torrents I source them from a private tracker, difference of quality and speed is night and day.
Usenet ftw - i can never go back to torrenting
Torrent and ed2k/kad networks
A quick search told ed2k/kad are other p2p networks. What kind of files do you get from that? And can you automate it with sonarr or similar?
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Torrents and muthafuckin' DC++!!!
Jesus, dc++ is still around???
@marx2k @doolittle wow literally haven't thought about that in 16 years I think.
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Well to be fair it depends on personal preference rather than a technology being better than other. I used to torrent everything but nowadays I just subscribed to RD and with Stremio or Kodi + Trakt I got everything I need without having to worry for searching.
Its funny that you say "still using torrents" while the usenet is basically older than torrents
I’ve been on the torrents for ages but just started with Usenet this weekend. So I’m dual wielding with Usenet as first priority.
sssh we don't talk about 𝗇 z b 𝗌
I just got Sonarr and Radarr setup with Overseerr and Jackett and got my family on Plex so we can cut the cord on Netflix. Overseerr supports downloading from Plex watchlists so they don’t even need to use Overseerr to auto download movies. I still need to figure out how to sort and download better ones since I’ve selected “seeders” as the download is sometimes prioritizing quality.
I’m in a private invite only torrent site, and most shows/movies have an amazing availability. Seeding is a requirement and becusee its private, my ISP doesn’t send me DMCA notices.
Both configged on the *arrs.
I've only heard good things about Usenet but personally, I can find almost anything I want via DDL so that's where it's at for me
Usenet. If only because I don't have access to any good private trackers and the public ones I used to use are dead. And I have access to good enough indexers to get the job done.
With my new setup though I run everything through a VPN tunnel so if I ever found some good trackers again I'd not be against it.
I mostly ddl tbh. Works for the fast majority of my needs. There are times where Torrenting is the only thing possible tho
It's fairly seldom I need to but if then I use torrents.