Pirates of Lemmy, how many torrents are in your queue that are just stuck?

If it doesn't immediately have a seeder, I just give up. Like I don't have the patience, I could die tomorrow, no time to waste.

I go to !piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com (blocked by lemmy.world instance btw) and hope I can find another torrent, or a DDL.

I would recommend at least giving it a day or two. Sometimes the last seeder is someone who only seeds at night to avoid congestion on their LAN or save power or whatever
- I'm a night seeded. My VPN has, rarely, dropped me off zoom calls, and it has a deleterious effect on my work. So nighttime it is.
Chad

None if something doesn't give me a decent speed in a minute or so I delete it and look for alternatives.

Wild I had to fight spellcheck about 4 times just to post this one sentence, SwiftKey seems to be getting constantly worse.

The Microsoft ai running against it is bottlenecking

I haven't torrented in many years. But I wanted to give a shoutout to all of the seeders that come back online, so I we could finish. There were many movies I had qued. Most were fine and finished up in three days or less, some started then stopped before they even reached the 15% mark, and several would make it to 98% then stop. Thankfully, there were some people out there who finally came back online and seeded enough for me to finish the dls. I made sure to seed enough peers to where there would be 10 seeders before I would consider removing it.

And a huge fucking thank you to whoever the hell came back online to let me get some obscure TV show called The Legend Of Mick Dodge. I started to dl when there were only 2 seeders. Then it soon became 0 seeders. I held out because I wasn't able to find a trusted torrent for the show. So I ended up sitting on that for a bit over a month. Then one morning, I checked my list and found to my surprise that both season 1 and season 2 were complete. I was shocked when I found out that there were now 7 seeders including me. And because of the annoying wait I had to endure, I made sure to seed the MFer for 2+ months before transferring it.

((Turns out, the TV show is on archive.org https://archive.org/details/the-legend-of-mick-dodge/))

none of mine were stuck, I seeded 5000+ movies/series/games/music. mostly use Usenet now, but my library is shared on soulseek and I so ration at least 1-2 before I remove it. I upload 1TB a day on average.

Nzb is where all the OGs are.

About 3 years ago I got tired of stuck torrent queues and spent a few hours learning what Usenet is and it's various components. A little learning curve compared to torrents, but very comparable in the end. The only major difference is having to pay for a Usenet provider VPN and potentially subscribing to Usenet boards for membership.

I bought a yearly sub to a provider and lifetime sub to a very well know board. I justify the cost as money that would be wasted on a subscription service, except half the yearly cost. Usenet is now the primary download in my arr stack with torrent as a backup.

In my experience Usenet performs much faster than torrent, and there's no seeding requirement at all. Just grab and go. And it seems to have about 90% of what I'm looking for, from anime to old shows\movies (1950s to 20XX).

I've tried a few times to really wrap my head around Usenet and I've got a couple of bookmarked tabs but... Man, I even had trouble setting up the arrs. My brain might be a bit too smooth these days.
- The arr setup is confusing at first, but once you get one the rest are lock-step. I suggest checking out prowlarr which will simplify your indexer setup on the arrs. I'm sure there's a YouTube around that you can follow along too. Don't give up!
I was introduced to Block News a number of years ago, myself. I have since switched to an unlimited account. Usenet has absolutely transformed how I pirate. Once it's set up, it's so much easier, quicker, and safer.
- Agree. I'll need to check out Block News and see if they have any lifetime sales around the holidays. I bought a lifetime for my current board a few years ago for half price. Well worth it!
I'm on Usenet too mostly. sometimes easier to get a torrent for a whole series.
I thought usenet was a message board from the '90s.
- Technically still is the same usenet, now with more content!
Is Usenet something that's available for free? I've sailed the high seas for decades, but never gotten into Usenet
- It may have been at one time but you now need to pay for a VPN or "Usenet provider" to connect to them. I pay yearly $70 for my Usenet provider and another $70 for my private VPN for torrents. There was a one time cost to my board of $100, but it's a lifetime pass I got on 50% sale during the holidays. Both would equate to roughly one year of a single subscription service if you wanted to dock your boat on a single island.

I don't pirate anymore since I had to pay 1000€

my life sucks now.

Out of curiosity, were you using a private tracker? VPN? Just interested in the circumstances. Obviously something anyone who downloads has in the back of their minds. I remember getting a letter 20+ years ago, addressed to my dad from Verizon, to cut it out. I got smarter after that, or so I think.
- no, I was 15.. well I still am, it wasn't that long ago, and I had been torrenting for 3 years, I believe, nothing ever happened. I also didnt know anything about private trackers, I tried getting into it once, but practically anything that costs money I would have to ask my parents for, and I'm too shy for that. Anyways, I was always saying "yeah I'm gonna get a VPN..." never did. Now my parents had to pay the price for that. I might get a VPN when I get my own bank account and stuff.. in 3 years, so I'm responsible for it.
Ouch, where?
- Bet it's Germany lol
Did it actually affect your life more than having to pay a fine?
- yes, I now have to use shitty streaming sites that are slow, unreliable and have absolutely no "rare" content. Also I won't be able to build a collection, which leaves me feeling incomplete and miserable. I don't know why this bothers me so much, but it does.
i2p

A couple dozen? If you count ones that have never started, anyway.

None? Huh maybe I'm lucky. I use Rutracker, therarbg, nyaa and occasionally in a pinch a 1337x mirror (I know I know).

You should also know RARBG shut down some time ago so you're using a fake clone site there too.
- I'm not using a fake clone site, I'm using a fan-made successor site.
  https://www.reddit.com/r/trackers/comments/16hro1r/introducing_therarbg_a_fork_of_the_nowdefunct/
  Pls lurk moar before you spout more FUD.
  I've not had any issues with it and it has the og RARBG encodes with actual seeds (search ORARBG).
What's wrong with 1337x? I use the .to
- Shit site with mostly shit torrents for plebs. At least that's my association, it's where the YIFY consoomers go.
Is rarbg back again? They got shut down a couple years ago.
- No, that RARBG is gone, this is just a successor site using the name and hosting the old RARBG torrents.

1 from nyaa.si for 3 weeks.

I have like two because I chose nordvpn and they don't have the ports open for DHT to work properly. My sub ends in November and I'll switch to Proton is the world is still turning.

None since I don't have access to my self-hosted server at the moment due to personal circumstances, so I shut it down. I miss my server.

You guys have stuck torrents?

I have probably 2 or 3 stuck for movies, and thousands stuck for music. Radarr and lidarr adds them automatically, and after many months, they do actually finish downloading

You might check out aoulseek for music. There is a surprising amount of content available there.
- I use soulseek too.

I'm not cool enough or interesting enough for this problem. Most of my shit is pirate bay top 100 at some point

Same here. I normally have qbittorrent running 24/7, but typically shut it down and grab a different VPN server once or twice a week. It seems to affect uploads more than downloads though.
Stuck torrents aren't really a huge deal for me, because I've usually got at least a couple weeks worth of backlog. But it is frustrating when I pop open the client and see like 3Gb of upload activity that day, when I have hundreds of things seeding.

I have many torrents stuck, not being able to reach 1.0 ratio :)

Five as well. A bunch recently cleared out for no explicable reasons (other than seeders mysteriously showed up).

I recently turned to piracy after being a dedicated ‘churner’ keeping only on service a month. So I have a lot of catching up to do. Five miscellaneous things hanging out in the queue is no problem.

just one 'oh god (1977)'

Its been 48 years, it’s time to give up _/s
Those were some entertaining movies (as I recall—I don't know if I've seen them since I was barely into double-digit age). Worthwhile, even if they are based on beliefs I don't share.

I'm a 1 at a time kinda guy, so nothing really gets stuck in a queue. but I haven't had to give up on anything so far this year.

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No longer stuck but Iron Monkey took about 2 months on/off until I got the whole thing. I try to seed where I can but internet isn't the best and sometimes there just isn't a lot of demand. That one's at 0.07 right now because not a lot of people downloading

Most of the stuff I torrent is off archive.org nowadays, but I've found way too many archive.org torrents that sit at 99.7% complete. I can't figure out why that is. I've tried rechecking, redownloading, and so forth, but it just... Doesn't finish.

Usually this is because early in the torrent’s life, there were one or two files that people didn’t want to download for various reasons and eventually, nobody was seeding them anymore. This is why a lot of private trackers prohibit partial downloads
Archive also usually has a direct download option, if you can't get the content from torrents there.
- What's frustrating to me is that in theory none of the torrents/magnet links should get stuck, as they have archive.org set as a direct download/web source backup. But I've literally never seen that feature fucking work. Ever.
Are there only specific files missing? Like archive-added metadata.

I had 2 for over 1.5 years. I gave up. They are rare and the seeds died.

HAH NONE

It used to be a couple dozen, but I cleaned it up a couple of months back and somehow haven't had any get stuck since

0 as I don't torrent at all anymore. I download zip, rar, or 7z files only.

Wtf
- Torrenting is just too much effort. I'd rather download cracked software without the torrent process.

Last October I pirated around 100 horror movies and only 2 of them took longer than a day.

Beyond the Black Rainbow (2010) - took a couple of days, it was stuck at 10% for a while and one day i wake up and the whole thing finished in like 6 hours. I'm guessing someone turned on a pc that had been off for a long time lol.

Cabin Fever (2002) - this one took over a week and I was deadset on not paying for it so I just let it sit, pretty much the same thing with the previous torrent, it was stuck at a low percentage for a long time and then one day I hop on my computer and it had fully finished.

Other than that, a lot of Japanese films or foreign films in general will take a long time if they're not that popular. If I don't care too much I'll just delete it and forget about it.