I have five.

  • TehBamski@lemmy.worldEnglish
    16·
    6 days ago

    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/))

  • thermal_shock@lemmy.worldEnglish
    11·
    6 days ago

    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 do ratio at least 1-2 before I remove it. I upload 1TB a day on average.

  • rickyrigatoni@lemm.ee
    3·
    5 days ago

    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.

  • Zanathos@lemmy.world
    121·
    6 days ago

    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).

    • BigPotato@lemmy.world
      6·
      6 days ago

      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.

      • Zanathos@lemmy.world
        2·
        1 day ago

        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!

    • Jayb151@lemmy.world
      2·
      5 days ago

      Is Usenet something that’s available for free? I’ve sailed the high seas for decades, but never gotten into Usenet

      • Zanathos@lemmy.world
        2·
        1 day ago

        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.

    • hogmomma@lemmy.world
      3·
      6 days ago

      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.

      • Zanathos@lemmy.world
        1·
        1 day ago

        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!

  • Jimmycakes@lemmy.world
    5·
    7 days ago

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

  • dustyData@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    6 days ago

    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.

  • whats_all_this_then@lemmy.world
    3·
    6 days ago

    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

  • object [Object]@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    2·
    6 days ago

    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

  • ccunning@lemmy.world
    2·
    7 days ago

    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.