What public trackers do you always add to every torrent?

  • lud@lemm.ee
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    11 hours ago

    That’s a waste of time. The torrent already comes included with the needed trackers.

    • three@lemm.ee
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      7 hours ago

      I disagree. There have been many times I’ve been able to find at least one peer for torrents that otherwise would never complete. Besides, how much time is copy and pasting really wasting?

      • lud@lemm.ee
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        1 hour ago

        If you are gonna do that you might as well change your torrent client settings to automatically include the extra trackers.

  • Psythik@lemm.ee
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    12 hours ago

    I don’t do that anymore. I just use a Debrid service and enjoy consistent 1Gbps download speeds.

  • riimoh@discuss.tchncs.de
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    12 hours ago

    What is the point of adding other public tracker? Is it to cross seed? Or just higher probability to connect to a peer?

  • Chewy@discuss.tchncs.de
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    2 days ago

    I don’t have direct answer to the question, but I generally don’t add public trackers to my (public) torrents. DHT/PEX usually works fine for me for finding seeds on the occasion that I do need something from public torrent sites.

    I wonder whether adding additional trackers only increases the speed in which peers are found or whether it also substantially increases the likelihood of finding peers.

    • floo@retrolemmy.com
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      1 day ago

      I wonder whether adding additional trackers only increases the speed in which peers are found or whether it also substantially increases the likelihood of finding peers.

      One begets the other, although your mileage may vary