Hey yall, just for fun I had the idea of making our own community tier list for trackers. Lumping them all together regardless of category, just rating them on how well they do what they do.
Commit if you have any changes or additions and I will update!
S-Tier
- HDBits (HDB) - Movies/TV
- PassThePopcorn (PTP) - Movies
- BroadcasTheNet (BTN) - TV
- Redacted (RED) - Music
- GazelleGames (GGn) - Games
A-Tier
- Anthelion (ANT) - Moives
- Nebulance (NBL) - TV
- BeyondHD (BHD) - Movies/TV
- Blutopia (Blu) - Movies/TV
- MoreThanTV (MTV) - Movies/TV
- Orpheus - Music
- AnimeBytes (AB) - Anime
- Bibliotik (BiB) - eBooks
- TorrentLeech (TL) - General
- Empornium (EMP) - P0rn
B-Tier
- Aither - General
- Alpharatio (AR) - General
- FileList (FL) - General
- IPTorrents (IPT) - General
- MyAnonaMouse (MAM) - eBooks
C-Tier
- Bit-HDTV - Movies/TV
- Nyaa - Anime
What’s the trick to getting into the higher tier trackers? I’m on some that are obviously C-tier, invited by ppl I know, but no idea how to upgrade. I keep a good ratio on them, too!
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.
Well, i’m on tracker(s) x but they don’t have much in the way of active forums. it looks like trolling for invites is non-existent and i’d guess bannable on them, so no idea how to make the leap from x to y!
Well if the tracker you are on doesn’t have active forums, and active irc or forbids invites, then I’d find a different tracker to get on via either open registration or interview that does.
That’s kind of a chicken-and-egg problem there, although I didn’t know there were open registration for any of them. Is there a place to know when they are open? Or interview, I’m going to have to look that up.
For a website there is:
https://opentrackers.org/
but I feel like it’s been lacking lately. For both more and faster updates I’d suggestion joining the telegram group, it does pretty well:
https://t.me/opensignup
And it’s not even a compromise to use open trackers nowadays, several in the A-tier list have been open just this past couple months.
Maybe an update to the OP here then would be to indicate Open vs Private. Being A-tier doesn’t help me if I’m not a member and can’t get an invite!
A more informative chart would certainly be helpful, given that while IPTorrents is harder to join than TorrentLeech, it’s also not as good in terms of content. At the same time, while I don’t think TorrentLeech belongs in the B-Tier, it’s certainly among the easiest to join of the trackers in the A-Tier while not be the most useful as a launchpad for joining better trackers in the A and S tiers. Of the trackers that have open signups, AlphaRatio seems to be a better starting point, but I’ve unfortunately yet to get an invite to it.
Patience, this is a new community, but I plan to add lots of info in this regard, this is just the first in a series of posts that will make up the community knowledge base.
Oh yea, not trying to be bossy! But moving from a small-time private tracker up the tiers is strangely complicated, so differentiating them would certainly be helpful.