I used to have access to Iptorrents many years ago after being invited by a friend and loved it. As I felt Netflix was a reasonable replacement at the time, I shifted to purely using it for all my streaming needs resulting in an IPT account shutdown. Today is a different story though... As the library shrank and split into many different providers bumping the price up to a very UNreasonable level along with small and bloated libraries, I'm ditching the services for a purely Jellyfin reliant home. Does anyone know of a quality tracker that I can use these days?

Edit: Everyone has been so helpful. Thanks for all of the information and invites!

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[–] ExcessShiv@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Meh, i tried usenet about a year or two ago when I was getting back into this, and it was utterly useless for anything that wasn't English speaking media for myself. Anything locally produced or foreign shows translated (for my kids) where almost impossible to find so YMMV. It seems to have a lot less variety than torrents offer.

I found a private torrent tracker that caters to my liking and now there's almost nothing I can't find anymore and it's also full bandwidth (1gbit in my case) download 90% of the time. Costs are about the same, just for VPN instead of provider and indexer.

[–] jbone@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Interesting, I've never used usenet (no pun intended), but this does seem like a pretty big drawback.

I speak fluent English, but if I am not in a mood for subtitles, I prefer non-US/UK media in my own language. Torrents are pretty flexible on this front. Sure you need to know what you are doing, but if you know what usenet is, that means you can figure it out.

[–] Dyskolos@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 days ago

See my other comment, this "drawback" is just based on missing knowledge. It's absolutely the same as with torrents. If you are on public trackers/search-engines you're fucked with the absolute mainstream-stuff. On private trackers you find what you need. Same with usenet. Lots of private trackers (at least in my native tongue, but most likely in many other tongues too) that deal with local stuff. I never not found anything except some very rare cases (in which torrent, debrid or even group-FPTs didn't help either, it was just not available at all)

As you said: if you know what you're doing....applies to everything :)

[–] Dyskolos@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 days ago

As said, if one does not understand a medium, it's not the medium's fault. Same as with torrent, if you need niche-stuff like localized dubs, you'd need local forums/sites for that. Same as with private torrent-trackers. I'm not a native-tongue either, but if i want localized or foreign stuff, there are at least 3 sites where i always find the stuff. It's just not a simple "enter name, wait, watch" anymore, just the same speed when actually downloading. I even have torrent as a low-priority fallback enabled. Didn't trigger for years :) Also torrent's full-speed vastly depends on age of torrents and how mainstream their content is. As if every torrent of the last decade on that tracker is shared with full-speed.

Anyhow, if you think torrent is superior, you're surely entitled to your own opinion of course. As said, the less people that use the usenet, the better for its future.