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YOiNKED is open for registration for an undetermined amount of time. They are relatively new (started in 2024) compared to some of the other PTs posted in this community.

Genre: General (music, games, apps, movies, tv shows , books etc)

Stats:

• Torrents: Total Torrents 17,722
• Total Torrents Size 277 TiB
• Users All Users 3,945
• Active Users 3,818
• Peers Seeders 26,630
• Leechers 169
• Total 26,799
• Traffic Total Traffic Real Total Upload 515.17 TiB
• Real Total Download 467.7 TiB
• Real Total Traffic 0.96 PiB

Rules:

• HnR: Currently there are no requirements for HNR’s.
• Inactivity: You must log in to the website or the tracker must register activity from your Announce URL once every 90 days or your account will be disabled.
• Ratio Requirement: 0.7
• VPNs: Allowed

I'm in the midst of a migration to a new Linux distro and I'm stuck on restoring my qBittorrent setup from my previous install. Both environments are desktop versions of Linux - previously Bazzite, switching to Debian.

Prior to wiping the OS drive that had Bazzite on it, I had backed up my BT_data and config folders to a separate data drive. After installing Debian, I've copied my BT_data and config folders back to the right place on the new OS, however the issue I'm running into now is that when I open qBittorrent for the first time, all my torrents say Missing Files. This checks out seeing as the paths are slightly different, /run/media/oldusername/data instead of just /media/newusername/data. I started doing a force re-check on all my torrents and realized it'll take a very long time seeings as I have 6 TB of data to re-check.

I did a "find and replace" in all the config files to update the default save paths and the save paths for all my categories, but that wasn't enough.

Has anyone else gone through a qBittorrent migration and run into this problem? If so, how did you overcome it? Any other tips I should try?

I'm thinking of going back to Bazzite just to see if I can replicate the paths and get qBittorrent to recognize all my files again without having to re-check everything. I might also try setting up sym links to duplicate the original paths from the Bazzite install. I think these two approaches might be faster than re-checking my whole library. I am a tad concerned about getting hit with HnR's on some of my trackers since I've been offline for about 24 hours now. And I did not do a full backup of my previous OS (lmaoooo), so there's nowhere for me to go but forward. Thanks in advance for your help!

Seedpool.org [SP] is an 11 month old general private tracker. We are briefly opening our doors because everybody else is doing it, so why can't we.

What we offer:

• 0-Day uploads of everything. (~1500 uploads per day)
• Extremely fast TV show pre times.
• Everything is unrar'ed.
• Immunity from HnRs with seedpool > 250GB
• Freeleech everything with seedpool > 1TB
• iNTERNAL seedpool releases.

Latest unit3d platform upgraded with a rust based tracker software. Full integration with the very latest discourse forums. Private persistent Lounge chat instances for all our members to stay connected to IRC 24/7 without the need for a client.

Team of house uploaders who conform to strict rules to ensure consistent quality for all posts.

Live requests, seedpoint (BON) gambling in IRC casino games. Or get points simply for idling in chat.

Lively community of helpful members, always folks in #seedpool to ask questions to, or shoot the shit, or roll a d20 with.

| 📂 Torrents | 👤 Users | |

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| | 101,390 TV Shows: | 18,196 All: | | 46,009 Movies: | 16,980 Active: | | 4,473 4K Movies | 1,735 Today: | | 19,801 BoxSets: | 4,102 Week: | | 139,702 Music: | 6,731 Month: | | 9,286 Anime: | 20 Pruned: | | 8,410 PC Games: | 7 Banned: |

Country: Latin America

Genre: Racing & Motorsports

Statistics:

All Users: 3377 | Active Users: 2943 | Seeders: 10004 | Leechers: 74 | Total: 10078 | Torrents: 3343 | Torrents Size: 28.15 TiB

Additional Information: it's focused in high quality video HD and 4K with Latino, Castellano and Multi-Audio torrents for Worldwide users. Please apply only if you are really a motorsports fan and you intent to use the tracker.

LST is open for applications for their three-year anniversary. I believe they'll stay open until Fri Aug 1 @ midnight UTC.

Rules:

• Seeding: You must seed downloaded torrents at least for 3 days as soon as you downloaded more than 10% of a torrent. Regardless of your ratio. The seedtime starts counting as soon as you have 100% downloaded. You do not have to seed your torrent 24/7, but you must fill the required seed time within 21 days after downloading. Completed requests needs to be seeded for 10 days!
• Inactivity: Accounts get automatically disabled after 90 days of no activity, activity is seen as either logging in to the site or seeding at least 1 torrent. Certain classes have a perk preventing being disabled due to inactivity, check class perks for these. Once disabled you get an e-mail with a link to re-activate your account by logging back in. Accounts get soft deleted 120 days after being disabled.
• Ratio Requirement: 0.4
• VPNs: Yes

Stats:

• Total Users: 10,998
• Active Users: 4,662
• Total Torrents: 81,823 (Alive: 75,449 | Dead: 6,406)
• Total Content Size: 1.6 PiB
• Total Peers: 431,918
• Seed Size: 9.34 PiB
• Total Traffic: 14.8 PiB (real)

ETA link to archived Reddit thread.

OnlyEncodes+ (OE) is open for application again. I'm not on the staff, but I believe they'll stay open until Fri Aug 1 @ 12:01 UTC.

Rules:

• Seed Time: Every downloaded torrent must be seeded for a minimum period of 48 hours within 7 days from the download.
• Inactivity: You must log in once every 60 days or seed at least 1 torrent to keep your account. Once disabled you have another 60 days to login and get your account re-activated. Every disabled account gets deleted after 180 days of inactivity.
• Ratio Requirement: 0.4
• VPNs: Encouraged

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Stats:

• Users
  • All Users: 4708
  • Active Users: 3377
  • Disabled Users: 1177
• Torrents
  • Movie Category: 42215
  • TV Show Category: 22948
  • HD: 63907
  • SD: 1256
  • Total Torrents: 65163
  • Total Torrents Size: 754.54 TiB

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I'm curious to view real time stats for trackers I'm a member of. I see stats posted in open signups, and I know about the private tracker website, but I don't see where the stats are displayed on the sites themselves. Is that because I'm not on the staff or are they just tucked away in a menu somewhere?

So, yeah: Do you save your torrent files or delete them after you've added them to your favorite torrent client? Why? Not the underlying data, just the torrent files themselves.

I'm undecided. I figure if I save them and back them up to an offline/offsite device, then I can (mostly/hopefully) recover from hardware failure by simply re-adding all the torrent files to my favorite client. The downside is deciding how to organize them.

I'd love to hear from the community on this.

As a torrent seeder, does one's max upload speed affect their likelihood of connecting w/ leechers? I know about port forwarding and all that jazz, but suppose a leecher adds a torrent with 10 seeders—does the leecher's client give any sort of preferential treatment for seeders w/ faster connections or is it basically each seeder has an equal (in this case, 10%) chance of being the chosen one? In other words, do seeders w/ normie home internet connections have a disadvantage over those w/ the faster connections?

For occasional torrent creation, qBittorrent has Tools > Torrent Creator, but suppose one has hundreds of folders from which to create individual torrents. A quick internet search yields forum posts from more than ten years ago mentioning dead projects. For example, this Reddit post from 2013 mentions qMakeTorrent, which is no longer maintained.

How are people doing this in 2025? I reckon one could write a bash or python script for this, but are there any user friendly tools out there that are built for this purpose and still actively maintained?

One has a folder of original content that they'd like to share/upload across the multiple private trackers that they're a member of. In qBittorrent, there's Tools > Torrent Creator, with various fields and a "Create Torrent" button. The "Tracker URLs" field accepts multiple URLs.

When creating the new torrent file(s), does one add the announce URLs for all their private trackers and then click Create Torrent (a single torrent file for all trackers), or is it best to only include one announce URL at a time (a separate torrent for each tracker)? Thanks.

Background: I'd like to turn an old personal laptop into a Jellyfin server so that I can stream media to my living room TV. I want to be able to expand what I use this server for over time. I'm leaning toward Proxmox as the OS so that I can spin up new containers for various services instead of installing a bunch of services on a base Debian install. I also want full disk encryption so that any data on the OS drive is less likely to be compromised by theft or Craigslist.

Question #1: I gather the general accepted approach for this is to first install Debian as a base w/ full disk encryption enabled and then install Proxmox on top because there is no option for full disk encryption in the native installer for Proxmox. Is this still the case?

Excerpt from this tutorial from November 2023 on the Proxmox Forum:

This tutorial deals with encryption of an existing installation. If you are starting fresh, my recommendation would be to install Debian with full disk encryption and then add Proxmox to it.

Excerpt from this post from February 2019 on the Level1Techs Forum:

The easiest way to do an encrypted Proxmox setup is to start with a minimal, vanilla Debian install. Set up the encrypted partition using the installer like you would with any other Debian system. Once installed, reboot. Then follow the guide for installing Proxmox on Debian.

Question #2: I don't mind entering the key manually whenever I reboot the server, but will I be able to unlock the server remotely? For example, suppose I'm tinkering in the web admin panel or an SSH session and I want/need to reboot—will I have to physically go over to the laptop and enter the key every time?

Also, I appreciate any other tips from the community to help me think about this in the right way. Thanks!